Fundamentalist State
We’re done. Ohio will play out for some time. It may not matter–New Mexico and Iowa look dicey at best. In any case, the writing is on the wall: George W. Bush will be the president for the next four years.
Turns out the youngsters didn’t show up–the draft, the gaping Social Security deficit that will fall in their laps, the bills they will owe for funding wealthy corporations to avoid taxes–about these things they apparently could not muster much of a shit.
The oldsters did show up, and despite a war on terror, failing jobs, a flagging economy, a desparate “reconstruction” in Iraq, vast income disparities, and a medical crisis on the horizon they were concerned with … “moral issues.” Apparently Karl Rove, that prophet of the dark side of the soul, knew well enough to play the homophobe card: in Puritan America, when the question is which peg goes in which hole, we are ALWAYS ready to commence the stonings.
The US has become a fundamentalist state. The questions of polity have become the questions of religious doctrine. It is more important to the practitioners of fundamentalist Christianity to concern themselves with the behavior of their fellow citizens than it is to craft careful economic and foreign policy. Where the rest of the post-industrial world races toward equality, our citizens dispense with it.
When we awake tomorrow, we will live in a one-party state. The Congress, the Presidency, and the judiciary will all be solidly in the hands of theocratic leaders. Lets call it straight: their fealty is first and last to a fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible. The Constitution is a secondary document.
Now the fight really begins. We’re seriously behind the eight ball now.
November 3rd, 2004 at 12:21 am
Jeff, get some sleep. If George Bush is to be the President for the next four years, I’d much rather hear it from John Kerry than from you. And there are still 200K+ provisional ballots in Ohio, and Kerry isn’t conceding anything that I know of.
November 3rd, 2004 at 2:28 am
Jeff, this is where the fight gets more difficult. However, defeat is not an option — though this election might have to slide by.
November 3rd, 2004 at 4:10 am
Jeff,
Look on the bright side. Now the republicans have to stop blaming the liberals of this country. Over the next few years our economy will see a steady increase in prices of goods and services, higher interests to service our growing debt, and a bear market.
Best yet, we can call Rush and Hannity everyday to complain about how the conservatives of this country is screwing it up.
November 3rd, 2004 at 5:22 am
The One-Party State
The American Street » Fundamentalist State The US has become a fundamentalist state. The questions of polity have become the questions of religious doctrine. It is more important to the practitioners of fundamentalist Christianity to concern themselves…
November 3rd, 2004 at 6:18 am
This About Sums It Up
. . . and because I’m too disappointed and angry to write so eloquently:
We’re done. Ohio will play out for some time. It may not matter–New Mexico and Iowa look dicey at best. In any case, the writing is on the wall: George W. Bush will be the…
November 3rd, 2004 at 6:26 am
BUSHWA!!!
When did all you people become such wimpy, weepy DEFEATISTS??? Ain’t NOBODY won, YET! Take a Prozac and get on the emailer!
No concession from Kerry! IT AIN’T OVER TILL THE LAST VOTE IS COUNTED!!! There’s MILLIONS of provisional & absentee ballots STILL uncounted! STOP the hype, START the count!
We waited FOUR years for this. We can wait two more weeks to COUNT ALL THE VOTES! No Premature Ejaculection!
Let them know, it ain’t over: