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Amazingly, but not surprisingly, Bush won the White House.
Another victory for the Evil and Misinformed.
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Bush's recent (and first-time) win of the presidency should
come a surprise to no one. It has validated the belief of
many that America has gotten what it deserves, even after
enduring some of the most horribly abusive foreign and
domestic policies in American history.
The fact that it was even a close call at all is a damning
condemnation of those supposedly opposed to the Bush
Bullshit. After four years of lies, murder, back-room
deals, dead soldiers, poor education, a faulty economy,
reduced civil liberties, increasing crime rates and racial
intolerance he still managed to capture the popular and
electoral count. This is sad, if for no other reason than
the fact that so many people are blind to the truth and
simply believe and hear what they want to believe and hear,
even in the face of mounting impeachment-worthy lies and
offenses. We couldn't even muster support for the lessor or
two evils, which would be laughable if it weren't so sad.
What an embarrassing time to be an American.
This election was won on fear--fear of a phantom terror
menace and of anything that could potentially hamper our
"way of life" in America--whatever that is. Now, without
constraints and unchecked, Bush can continue to wage war
globally, using U.S. military might to bring the "gift of
freedom" of <i>his</i> God to the world. War on who? Why,
war on all who aren't like him and his ilk, that's who. War
on women, war on people of color, war on those who don't
practice his twisted sense of "Christianity," war on those
who don't share his sexual preference, war on children, and
war on the less fortunate, the elderly and the infirm.
Now the left, and democrats in particular, will have to take
a long, hard look at themselves. What went wrong? This was
not a stolen election. It was not a hijacking, mugging or a
mistake. The left dropped the ball, not so much for lack of
trying (especially with the youth vote), but for backing
John Kerry--a weaker version of Bush--in the first place.
Maybe now the party that is supposed to represent the values
of the mainstream left will actually adopt those values and
not ignore its own constituency in an attempt to appeal to a
more conservative base. Indeed, many at odds with Bush's
illegal wars were left feeling disillusioned by the fact
that Kerry, his main opposition, had very similar stances
with regards to his overseas agenda.
An election this close must make us take pause. Maybe, after
all, we aren't nearly as far along as a country as we would
like to believe. And while it's true that for tens of
millions of Americans, Bush will never be our president, all
we can really do now is apologize to the rest of the world
for validating this simpleton and his racist imperialist
policies--and brace ourselves for the worst still yet to
come. Apparently, we must hit some sort of new low between
now and 2008.
Most disturbing of all is that George Bush will have the
chance to tilt the supreme court firmly to the right and
leave a lasting imprint on the US's social and political
fabric. Three of the nine supreme court justices could well
step down in the next few years. Chief justice William
Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens, and Sandra Day O'Connor will
all probably step down, as two are over eighty years of age
and O'Connor, 74, has openly expressed interest in wrapping
up her service.
Keep in mind that these are lifelong appointments, and that
Bush wouldn't have been selected for president in the first
place had the supreme court voted in 2000 to allow the
recount to continue in that presidential election (Gore
would've won).
In the coming years, the supreme court is expected to
consider some of the most divisive social issues in the US:
private property rights and government land seizure, gay
marriage and partial-birth abortion. A conservative court
can all but guarantee that the outcome will be
less-than-favorable for those of us who value fairness,
justice and liberty.
Yes, America has gotten what it deserves.
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