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thistlechaserI am an idiot.
I am such an idiot.
I know how people are. I know how Americans are. Why did I think the average SUV-driving, 24oz-steak-at-ever-meal, my-kid-is-more-important-than-anyone-else's American would turn away from the herd, turn away from fear, and pick progress? Pick getting along with the rest of the world instead of flipping it the bird? Pick rights for everyone? Pick not forcing your own damned religious beliefs onto everyone else?
God damned idiot Bush LITERALLY called up wolves to scare the fucking American herds. (He featured wolves in a TV commercial, because everyone knows how evil wolves are! Damned idiots.) And like the damned herd animals they are, the idiots flocked behind Bush, utterly unaware that HE was the one who brought the damned wolves in to begin with.
Idiots, all of them. But none more so than myself. Why did I hope? Why did I expect people to do better? I know how people are. I know that friends betray you at the drop of a hat. I know that people are not basically good, they are basically selfish bullies. I stopped hoping for good from people a long time ago, so why the hell did I give in this time and hope for something better?
Because I am an idiot.
(I skipped my walk this morning to write this, in hopes that it would help rid me of the need to vomit. It didn't work. I hate myself for hoping for something better from people.)
Note: Yes, I know a lot of people did vote for Kerry, and yes I know that not every single Bush backer is a selfish asshole.
I am such an idiot.
I know how people are. I know how Americans are. Why did I think the average SUV-driving, 24oz-steak-at-ever-meal, my-kid-is-more-important-than-anyone-else's American would turn away from the herd, turn away from fear, and pick progress? Pick getting along with the rest of the world instead of flipping it the bird? Pick rights for everyone? Pick not forcing your own damned religious beliefs onto everyone else?
God damned idiot Bush LITERALLY called up wolves to scare the fucking American herds. (He featured wolves in a TV commercial, because everyone knows how evil wolves are! Damned idiots.) And like the damned herd animals they are, the idiots flocked behind Bush, utterly unaware that HE was the one who brought the damned wolves in to begin with.
Idiots, all of them. But none more so than myself. Why did I hope? Why did I expect people to do better? I know how people are. I know that friends betray you at the drop of a hat. I know that people are not basically good, they are basically selfish bullies. I stopped hoping for good from people a long time ago, so why the hell did I give in this time and hope for something better?
Because I am an idiot.
(I skipped my walk this morning to write this, in hopes that it would help rid me of the need to vomit. It didn't work. I hate myself for hoping for something better from people.)
Note: Yes, I know a lot of people did vote for Kerry, and yes I know that not every single Bush backer is a selfish asshole.
