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Nov. 3rd, 2004 07:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katallisonI just hurt all over. Trying to remember if it hurt this bad in '72 and '84. Maybe, but I don't think so.
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jennyo has a good post here on the need to keep fighting. Go read, if you're feeling despondent.
I posted last night that the people I felt sorriest for in this election were the traditional conservatives, and though my definition of who I feel sorriest for has expanded exponentially, still I think that long-term the Republicans have gotten themselves in a bad bind. This election really consummated their unholy marriage with the single-issue religious fundamentalists, which ought to scare the crap out of those Rep.s' who actually still believe in limiting governmental intrusion in the private sphere. And when the increasingly-unpayable bills for our foreign adventures come due, it'll be Bush&Co and the Rep.-dominated Congress that'll have to deal; with time, I think people might begin to suspect that a massive and growing deficit might just be a leetle more of a threat to the nation than, say, gay people wanting to get hitched.
Meanwhile: Patience. Stubbornness. Alliances. Communication. Tactical thinking. Refusal to give up. Fighting on in the dark times. All those things we fans admire in our heroes--we need to remember those now, and not just write stories about them. We gotta *be* our heroes. At the risk of being cheesy--are you ready to be strong?
jennyo has a good post here on the need to keep fighting. Go read, if you're feeling despondent.I posted last night that the people I felt sorriest for in this election were the traditional conservatives, and though my definition of who I feel sorriest for has expanded exponentially, still I think that long-term the Republicans have gotten themselves in a bad bind. This election really consummated their unholy marriage with the single-issue religious fundamentalists, which ought to scare the crap out of those Rep.s' who actually still believe in limiting governmental intrusion in the private sphere. And when the increasingly-unpayable bills for our foreign adventures come due, it'll be Bush&Co and the Rep.-dominated Congress that'll have to deal; with time, I think people might begin to suspect that a massive and growing deficit might just be a leetle more of a threat to the nation than, say, gay people wanting to get hitched.
Meanwhile: Patience. Stubbornness. Alliances. Communication. Tactical thinking. Refusal to give up. Fighting on in the dark times. All those things we fans admire in our heroes--we need to remember those now, and not just write stories about them. We gotta *be* our heroes. At the risk of being cheesy--are you ready to be strong?