Disclaimer: as I mentioned over the weekend, this is one of two posts that were written prior to knowing the outcome of the election. The opposite version will be posted tomorrow.
Well that’s that, we’re condemned to another four years under George W. Bush. I think it’s not at all an understatement to say that this entire election has been a farce, with both sides doing nothing but rallying up their most fervent supporters and failing to connect whatsoever with any swing voters. The end result, as we’ve seen is that this country is more divided than ever, and with this particular result, we’re going to see all those new, young (and mostly Democratic) voters grow increasingly cynical at the process. Whatever the voter turnout was among first-time, young voters, those same voters are much less likely to vote next time.
I’m sure we’re going to have lots of people pointing fingers over the coming weeks and months, and I don’t see why I have to be any different, so I’m going to point my finger squarely at John Kerry, for absolutely failing to gel into a real candidate. Considering how much the core base of the Democratic party hates George W. Bush, you would think Kerry would have reflected that in his campaign, but he didn’t. Instead, we had him saying how much he dislikes George Bush’s policies, but at the same time, coming up with these middle-of-the-road alternatives that failed to distance him properly from Bush.
As a result, we’ve elected John Jackson, not Jack Johnson. Congratulations, America. I fear for the future of this country, and most immediately, I fear for the future of the aging justices on the Supreme Court, who have to hang on for another four years, or else this country’s going to bend over backwards for its most radically religious, conservative wacko contingency.
Four more years.
Sigh.
I give you credit, good sir, for jumping on the anti-evangelist bandwagon before it even started.
I wouldn’t worry about the Supreme Court too much. First of all, Rehnquist is one of its most conservative members. So you can’t really domuch “worse,” by your measure.
Second, the Republicans love to ruin their majorities. Arlen Specter has already said that Bush better now send anyone up for nomination other than a moderate. That’s nice, but we all know the hell we’ll go through unless it’s an out and out liberal Bush sends up.
Me, I just want a non-activist judge on the bench. To my point of view, that’s a “conservative” judge, not the “liberal” one.
I was on the fence as to whom to vote for until I saw the last debate. Among the issues that was brought up was social security. Bush announed that the system had to be revamped soon, as it has been running a huge deficit that was only growing larger as our parent(s) grow older, and that he would partially privitize it (which means that part will be backed by US Treasury notes). Kerry gave the response that nothing will be done with social security because it is too important to the American people, which is correct, which is why something needs to be done with it, otherwise it will not be there for the people that need it. Kerry later brought up a point about leadership and for Bush to take a look around because no one was following him. It was then that I realized that Kerry was kind of like the kid in high school who was not popular but desperately wants to be, so will go along with almost anything if he thought cool people were behind it.