I can’t let the outcome of the election bring me down so much… With Measure 36 passing and President Bush being re-elected, my faith in the people of Oregon and the people of the United States is pretty low… With a Conservative Republican majority in Congress, a Conservative Republican for President and the Supreme Court leaning toward the right, I am truly worried about what will happen in the next 4 years…
In an AP story titled “White House Claims Mandate for Bush Agenda”, the writer talks about what Bush said he has planned for the next 4 years…
“He pledged to keep up the fight against terrorism, press for stable democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan, simplify the tax code, allow younger workers to invest some of their Social Security withholdings in the stock market, continue to raise accountability standards in public schools and “uphold our deepest values and family and faith.”
Other items include reforms to the nation’s intelligence community, halving the record $413 billion deficit, expanding health care coverage, a constitutional ban on gay marriage and moving “this goodhearted nation toward a culture of life.”
This shit scares me.
I do not share the President’s views on family or faith, so his aim to “uphold our deepest values and family and faith” worries me. His intention to continue the violence and death in Iraq in order to keep pushing for what he thinks is democracy in the Middle East worries me. His intention to ban gay marriage and his well-known opposition to abortion scare the ever-loving crap out of me.
I am hoping that there are enough liberals and moderates in Congress to stop him from carrying out these agenda items, but i can’t say that I have much hope. I tried to have faith in the good of people to do the right thing and vote down Measure 36 in Oregon… I tried to have faith that people would do the right thing and vote out George W. Bush and his conservative religious and corporate cronies…
I have been sorely disappointed on both counts.
I have never felt the effects of an election as strongly as I am feeling it today. And the feeling I am getting is not a good one.
I hope I am wrong. I hope that these things that I am concerned about never come to pass. I hope that I am proven WRONG by President Bush and that he will NOT betray the American people by continuing to erode our personal freedoms and our right to voice opinions. I hope that he will not take away a woman’s right to make a choice about her body. I hope that he will put aside his intention to write discrimination into the Constitution of the United States.
I hope these things, but the bitter taste of disappointment is still too fresh on my tongue to have very much hope at all.
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Remember though that 58 million people DO want these things to happen… (other than putting the gay marriage ban in the constitution – we shouldn’t add anything there except maybe clarify the second amendment to state that the right to own guns CANNOT be limited by government).
I’m thinking of a quote… it starts something like, “A house divided against itself…”
*sigh* We are a nation divided. How lovely.
Is it wrong to hope and pray to the Lord and Lady that Bush’s daughters come out of the closet next year just after he swears himself into being president for another 4 years?