One nightmare...postponed

[fredericks]

Went to bed last night around 11, utterly exhausted from a bevy of tests and running back and forth due to numerous things. I started having waking dreams about finding out that Bush had won the presidency (one notable one - I ask my mom who won. She tells me Bush and I get all sad. Then she says, no, Kerry, and I start clapping my hands and cheering like a toddler. THEN she tells me, no, it's Bush. And she laughs.). I was too scared tired to turn on television to find out what the news were saying (too tired, I guess - I would have had to get up and pull off the t-shirt I used to over the bright clock of the cable box in order to put the TV on). When I finally roused myself fully (after looking at the clock and resigning myself to the fact that I was going to wake up at 7:30 on a late day) and flicked on the TV, no one candidate's name stood out although, ominously, a number of outlets were talking about how people "voted 9/11" (and who the hell came up with the term "9/11 Moms"? seriously, now). I go downstairs and ask the two brothers who's the president. Waste of breath and energy; they're too busy watching Sportscenter. Delaying the inevitable I gargle, get my clothes together for school, and d/l Ad-Aware to aid our newly fast but undoubtebly porn-ladden computer before clicking over to CNN.com where I see this thing,

which *does* successfully frighten me, but the headline is that no one has all the necessary electoral votes. For those I heard talking in Hunter's halls that wished for a vote based on popular vote: sorry, but Bush has about 4 million more than Kerry. And I just...huh? Are people so concerned about possible terroristic acts (which, doubtless, wouldn't be occurring if the whole fuckin' world policing policy hadn't taken root in the first fuckin' place) that they're willing to give up rights over their bodies and their money and their jobs? People are willing to hand over all these things because they want their government, a government that caters to the will of Arms Business, and Tobacco Business, and Environmental Destruction Business (basically every *damn* factorial business out there), to protect the MORALITY of the country? The hell??? YOU dictate your own morality. YOU dictate the morals for your family, and your children. Worry less about gay marriage and worry more about the people in straight marriages having affairs, or getting divorces and re-marrying left and right. You think a bared nipple is going to send your child on the road straight to hell?

Okay. I'm backing away from all that. It just always shocks me how much of the country is staunchly Republican. I mean, I hear stories, but I live in New York. My parents were immigrants, knowing nothing about America except that Democrats were "for black people". So, since they got their citizenship, they've voted Democrat. I don't necessarily agree with their assessment, but, looking at the atmosphere Republicans breed, a foreigner can see they're less than welcoming. I voted Democrat because, let's face it, Nader wasn't going to win. They were (and are) the next best chance. It'll take something drastic in our future to make anything but the two-party view appealing to the vast majority of Americans. But I know that what one says when one wants to get to the glittering White House is not what one'll do. There's such oligarchic control of our government it's ridiculous. Maybe that's my version of paranoia, crying "Watch out for Big Business", but I can't help thinking it's true. I want to see what someone new might do. Bush has already shown me what he can do, and I'm not liking it.

Come on, Ohio. Send a miracle our way.

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[devoosha.livejournal.com]

You've brought up a very valid point. People are willing to give up a lot for a false sense of safety. You may not agree with or even like Michael Moore, but in his docu Bowling for Columbine, he talks about this fear. Our government, through the media, keeps us in a constant state of fear. We're one of the few countries where people always lock their doors and don't trust their neighbors. Bush's campaign played up to people's fears in a major way...so it's not surprising that people who do not do the research into each candidate will vote for him. They don't see that Bush has been the worst president we've ever had for our civil liberties and our environment. This will be another long four years if Ohio doesn't come through.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

I came in to find that Kerry'd given up the ghost. Inevitable, since Bush had the required number of votes and there was no way Kerry could beat him. *sigh* There's most definitely a sense of fear in the air, kept fresh by our government and the media. The media, because that's what people want to see (or is it one of those pesky "which came first" dealies? the media pushing it, or the people wanting to see it?), and the government because it's easier to keep power if people think you're the one keeping the Huns at bay. Does the government *really* control the media? or are we being fed what we crave? Violence, sex, (rock and roll?)? All I know is that to sit back and take what's being given to us, to say that it's a waste of time to protest or to become enraged is ridiculous. I hope that everyone that's upset by the results gets out there and exercises their rights by voting for all the representatives they can, and supporting causes they believe in. We really shouldn't wait three years to become active again.

[angelus3.livejournal.com]

Breaking news. Kerry conceded. I'm so depressed. We are going out at lunch for a drink.

Oddly enough I think Howard Stern said it best this morning when he said he felt as if the gates of hell opened up this morning.

Here at work we feel like moving to Canada. Wanna come along?

The place where they call ham "bacon".

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

Ha. That's the same exact thing I told my mom when I cme in and saw Kerry's concession stuff on CNN. Come to think of it, that's the same thing I said four years ago, when Bush won the first time around. I don't know if I could live in a place where they confuse bacon and ham.

Sooo much of the country is Republican. This election wasn't fixed: people are afraid and they're voting for someone they think has and will protect them from an evil given the face of Bin Laden. But notice how, while leading up to the election, his name wasn't mentioned. It's almost as if the spinmasters wanted to make the "evils against the US" thing even more ominous, by making whatever the hell the US was fighting against seem really vague and all-encompassing.

Shit. Four more years of not being able to say what I want to do with my reproductive organs? Maybe I *will* join y'all in Canada.

Just not Quebec. I can't speak French to save my life.

Re: The place where they call ham "bacon".

[angelus3.livejournal.com]

I'm more afraid of Bush as president than of any terrorist organization.