The Day After

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All right, let’s get this over with. Obviously, just like everyone else, I didn’t expect to wake up to four more years of this. I think the election came down to being a referendum on the Iraqi war, and the Democrats didn’t stand a chance in a country that overwhelmingly still thinks Iraq had more to do with 9/11 than Saudi Arabia did.

If there is any good that can be taken away from this, it’s that I still live in a progressive state and work in a progressive city. I’m also grateful that my sons are still too young to be called up to fight in the next contrived war. I’m proud that I helped organizations like MoveOn and Vote for Change show the world that not everyone here buys the president’s lies. And I’m proud that I participated in this election more than any other election. I plan on continuing to work to make sure America does not become what George Bush and Dick Cheney and Alan Keyes and Ollie North and the rest of them want it to become, an aristocratic theocracy.

I know that a lot of good people voted for Bush for no other reason than that they honestly believed that he was best for America. I sure as hell hope they’re right, but I really doubt it. More of the same is not what this country needs right now.

I’m not so bitter that I can’t congratulate the winners. So congratulations Big Business. Congratulations HMOs. Congratulations Teacher Haters. Congratulations Homophobes. Congratulations Enron Defendants. Congratulations Warmongers. Congratulations Offshore Companies. Congratulations Big Oil. Congratulations Standardized Test Makers. Congratulations Defense Industry. Congratulations Anti-environmentalist. Congratulations Pat Robertson. Congratulations Halliburton. Congratulations Drug Companies. Congratulations Polluters. Congratulations Body Bag Manufactures. Congratulations Civil Liberty Haters. Congratulations Energy Companies. Congratulations Bill O’Reilly. Congratulations Saudi Arabia. And big congratulations to Osama Bin Laden, you keep sending those tapes and we’ll keep creating you more recruits.