What else could a post be about this morning?

[thistlechaser]

I 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.

Comments

[spenceraloysius.livejournal.com]

I want to vomit, too.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I'd like to say "Well, at least in four more years it'll be over", but with this trend we saw yesterday, it's likely to only get worse.

*cries*

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Well, as someone pointed out, during the worst excesses of the Vietnam War, Nixon got re-elected.

Look what happened to /him/ in the long run.

[spenceraloysius.livejournal.com]

At this point, I can only hope that Bush gets remembered as one of the worst presidents ever.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm hoping for as well, but it feels like too much to hope for...

[metron-ariston.livejournal.com]

*hugs, sighs, wishes to not feel so sick as to make getting drunk impossible*

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sorry. :( *snugs back*

this appears to be my designated place to rant

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

God fucking dammit.

I do not need this country to tell me I should not have rights, THANK YOU.

I'm half sick to my stomach.

It's close, blah blah blah I don't CARE, this is /horrible/. /Feh/.

Re: this appears to be my designated place to rant

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I'm right there with you, and I'm so sorry! *hug*

~hugs~

[elo-sf.livejournal.com]

Angry, but not angry the way I was in 2000...

...also VERY concerned for the future.

Re: ~hugs~

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Agreed. *hug*

[sailorstarsun.livejournal.com]

I hear ya.... .~_~

There goes my dreams of ever getting married.. (to a cute chick..)

Canada is looking good these days..

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Move to Massachusetts! We like newcomers, honest!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry. Everyone should have the right to love and marry whoever the heck they want. (Oops! There I go being all unamerican!)

[evilgrayson.livejournal.com]

The pale horse is getting restless.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Well wouldn't you be, if Bush were poking you with a pointy stick and laughing that you couldn't touch him because God wants him to be president?

[metron-ariston.livejournal.com]

Seriously, though? Plenty of people in the Bush administration would have NO problem with the end of the world coming. And believe that if God wants Bush to be president, it's simply because he's in a position to set the ball rolling on stuff that's supposed to happen in the Middle East before The Rapture. And they have no reason to care about the environment because they think Jesus is coming back before the next generation dies, so we don't /need/ to save the earth's resources as everyone who matters will be going to heaven.

I am totally serious.