Words cannot express how disappointed I am with this
election.
It's not just the
Presidency, though I am astonished that
George W. Bush managed to win a majority (albeit a slim one). To think, if
John Kerry had only taken
Florida...
I could spout
conspiracy theories about the
electronic voting machines; that they were rigged to produce a favorable outcome for the
Republicans. That would be pretty foolish, though. Even if it were the case, there's no way it could be proven. Hence the problem with them in the first place. But I digress.
But there's more than just that. The whole country seems to be becoming more and more
conservative. The Republicans gained seats in both the
Senate and
House of Representatives. Eleven states passed
amendments to their
constitutions banning
gay marriage (eight of those included
gay civil unions). In my state of
Arizona, Proposition 200 - the so-called "Protect Arizona Now" initiative - was passed, which is essentially a license to treat any
Hispanic person as a second-class citizen when they come to a polling place or an
unemployment office. And not only have more Republicans taken seats in the state legislature, but most of the moderate Republicans were booted out in favor of hardline conservatives.
Somebody on a
forum I frequent suggested that all the blue states should secede and join
Canada. (If you look at it geographically, it would work; all of them - except
Hawaii, for obvious reasons - are in groups that have at least one state adjacent to the current border, and no red states in between them.) It was a joke, but frankly, I think we all might be better off that way. I've seriously considered immigrating myself, once I graduate. At the very least, I need to move to a more
liberal area, like Berkeley or Ann Arbor. Someplace where it doesn't feel like I'm alone in all my views.
On another note, I daylog way too much.