What I wrote in my head as I lay in bed at 4:00 this morning:
Half of me wants to scream, half of me wants to cry, and half of me is just numb. That doesn’t make mathematical sense, but it hardly matters in a country that no longer cares about reality.
What a disaster.
Bush won 51 percent of the popular vote, a higher percentage than Clinton ever got. No candidate had broken the 50-percent mark since 1988.
All 11 of the anti-gay-marriage amendments passed, even in Oregon.
Social conservatives Jim DeMint (North Carolina), Tom Coburn (Oklahoma), and John Thune (South Dakota) will now be in the Senate, and probably gay-baiting Mel Martinez (Florida) as well. The Senate will contain 54 Republicans.
Chief Justice Rehnquist is likely dying, so we will soon have Chief Justice Scalia. Moderate Justice O’Connor will probably retire, and liberal Justice Stevens is 84 years old.
The fabled youth vote never showed up. Young people didn’t vote in any greater numbers than last time. As Matt Haughey says, “Fucking stoned slackers. You can never depend on them for anything.”
(Update: Youth turnout actually went up.)
And Bush won the same percentage of gay voters as last time. Absolutely fucking astounding.
The Left Coaster writes excellently.
Andrew Sullivan writes about the impact on gays.
I feel reverse schadenfreude. Instead of taking pleasure in others’ pain, I’m taking pain in others’ pleasure. I felt this way in fifth grade, when one of my best friends won both the math and language-arts awards, leaving nothing for me. He was beaming and I was in tears.
I get the message. We’re not wanted here. Fine. I’m ready to secede. Let’s create the Greater Federation of Canada and Former Northeastern United States. It would look something like this. Who’s with me? West Coasters, you can join us too.
Part of me says: We got through the first four years, we can get through the next four.
The other part of me says: Supreme Court. Supreme Court. Supreme Court. That’s 25 years of hell right there.
Last night at around 6:30, before any polls had closed, I turned to Matt, breathed deeply, and said, “Let’s just sit here for a while and appreciate this moment, before any bad news starts coming in.” He looked at me like I was crazy.
What a disaster.
Tinman,
Travis County, Texas would like to join your new country. We are a democratic island in Texas. Kerry won 56% here. Too bad the rest of the state is not smart enough to see what Bush stands for. I’m equally upset, scared, angry, and completely bewildered. How did Bush get so many votes? It’s going to be a long road ahead. Hang in there.
Ronda
Yeah, abandoning the rest of the country is ultimately not cool. Great for us, as we’d much rather be a part of Canada…but not so cool in the sense that the remaining liberals would be completely fucked over. Imagine if New York weren’t pulling the country to the left….
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Poor Americans, next 4 years with cowboy. Condolences.