a beautiful day
by John at 11/03/2004 07:39:00 AM
This morning was beautiful. The sun was out, the wind was up, and the last colorful autumn leaves hung tenaciously to exposed branches as their siblings were blown madly down the street. It's almost enough to make you forget that the country is going to hell.
My mistake was getting a little hope. After Iraq went so badly, after the economy didn't really recover, after the presidential debates where Bush the man was revealed to be Bush the image and Kerry the image was revealed to be Kerry the man, I thought that we might have a chance to start setting things straight. I was wrong. I should have known that Americans have been trained to prefer image over reality any day.
Congratulations other half of America - you are going to get the government you deserve. It's too bad that you will be dragging the rest of us along with you.
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On the other hand, it's just politics. The Republicans play the game better than Democrats. They have for more than thirty years, and that's not going to change overnight.
Personally, I'm going to keep bitching about the Bush administration, and working in my small way to make the changes I want to see in the world happen. Today is just another day like the last 1461, or the next 1461. Keep up the good fight.
My mistake was getting a little hope. After Iraq went so badly, after the economy didn't really recover, after the presidential debates where Bush the man was revealed to be Bush the image and Kerry the image was revealed to be Kerry the man, I thought that we might have a chance to start setting things straight. I was wrong. I should have known that Americans have been trained to prefer image over reality any day.
Congratulations other half of America - you are going to get the government you deserve. It's too bad that you will be dragging the rest of us along with you.
-----
On the other hand, it's just politics. The Republicans play the game better than Democrats. They have for more than thirty years, and that's not going to change overnight.
Personally, I'm going to keep bitching about the Bush administration, and working in my small way to make the changes I want to see in the world happen. Today is just another day like the last 1461, or the next 1461. Keep up the good fight.
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