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[katallison]

I just hurt all over. Trying to remember if it hurt this bad in '72 and '84. Maybe, but I don't think so.

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?

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[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

Mr. Bone and I were Dem Party volunteers in Orlando in 2000. I vowed then that I'd never again let an election have such an impact on my emotional state. I was disappointed to learn that the "I-4 Corridor" went for Bush this time, but given whose in the governor's seat, it's not a huge shock.

Your post helped, Kat. It reinforced what Mr. B and I were saying this morning, which is it's not the war, it's not the deficit, it's not terrorism. It's the gay thing. That wasn't even an option on the "Why did you vote as you did?" polls I saw, but it's pretty clear looking at the results that "morals" drove the election.

I'm trying to look at it this way -- Bush will now have four years to clean up the shitty mess he's made, and if the country can't figure out in that time what a jackass he is, then frankly, I guess it deserves what it gets.

[wickdzoot.livejournal.com]

My problem with that, sadly, is that my son has already been to Iraq once, and now, I'm afraid, he may be sent again. Yeah, the country gets what it deserves in that sense, but my son is too old to abduct and take to Canada (as if my daughter).