| | So I know I said I wouldn't use this xanga, but I read some posts by people who wished that this country would go to hell, and I thought this'd be the most expedient way to voice a counteropinion.
Friends, you need not wish that this country will go to hell in the next four years. I strongly discourage you from doing so, because it adds to the extreme right's arguments that we hate them just for the sake of hating them. It's known they hate us just for the fun of it, but *now* is not a good time for this sort of attitude. To top it off, I thought we were voting for Kerry, so that this country *does NOT* goto hell. How many times have I argued with u people that this election DOES matter because little things add up, and we DO NOT want to have to emigrate *out* of this country. Moreover, you might just get what you wish for.
If you look at the voter turnout, and what people are saying at the exit polls, you will realize that Bush won because 4 million people thought that issues like gay marriage were more important to them than the Iraq conflict and the economy. This election wasn't just about Bush and Kerry. This election was about whether someone could screw up royally but win reelection anyway, if and only if they press to dissolve the barriers between the church and the state. This has implications beyond the secular vs. religious battle, because pretty much *no one* was making issue of civil rights, and none of the politicians who won made the economy the focus of their campaign. Say what you like about church and state, but economics and civil rights have been the cornerstone of growth in this country for the last 300 years. And apparently, the majority of the American people just don't care too much about them anymore.
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| | Posted 11/4/2004 10:07 AM - 40 Views - 6 eProps - 3 comments
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