Fear more years
Oct. 25th, 2004 10:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsNo, no news today. If you want to look up the attempt by the Pentagon to cover up the loss of 350,000 kilos of extremely efficient chemical explosives, you can go to Google News or Reuters or whatever.
I'm just tired. Goddess, the stress level in my house is high enough these days without the election being on our minds, the constant fear that the chimp is going to win and we'll be facing... what?
Four years from now, Bush's supreme court will have overturned Roe v. Wade and affirmed Bowers v. Hardwick: abortion will be illegal, and homosexual activities inside one's own home will be felonious conduct. The inclusionary doctrine of the Bill of Rights will be overturned and state governments will be free to adopt state religions, ban speech they deem offensive, the whole litany. Meanwhile, within the federal government, fiscal policy will be made in secret by corporations and social policy will pander to a concrete religious base that maintains intolerance *is* a holy tenant.
Of course, with Kerry, the whole DRM thing will continue, and there's no promise that student's right to use the GPL, which the Democratic Senator from Microsoft has tried to ban before, will survive four years with either party. His health care plan scares the gizzard outta me.
I'm a big believer in mixed government. Kerry is only up on Bush by 4% in Washington as of the latest polling rounds, which sucks because if it had been bigger I'd've voted for Badnarik. Omaha wants to discourage me from voting for Badnarik anyway because she's dismayed by the platform entry that states he'd bring the troops home immediately; well, that's a consequences of principles and principle number one is that the United States government has no business getting involved in foreign adventures that are not explicitly defensive. And I doubt things in Iraq could get "much worse" than they are now.
But I guess I'm voting for Kerry. I'm going to vote for a Democrat (and wash my hands afterward) because, well, malevolence, malfeasance, incompetence, and a disconnection from reality have been the hallmarks of the current administration.
Jim Hightower once commented that "If the Gods had wanted us to vote they would have given us candidates." Well, the Gods gave us something worse: an anti-candidate, compared to whom anything else on offer is preferable.
I'm just tired. Goddess, the stress level in my house is high enough these days without the election being on our minds, the constant fear that the chimp is going to win and we'll be facing... what?
Four years from now, Bush's supreme court will have overturned Roe v. Wade and affirmed Bowers v. Hardwick: abortion will be illegal, and homosexual activities inside one's own home will be felonious conduct. The inclusionary doctrine of the Bill of Rights will be overturned and state governments will be free to adopt state religions, ban speech they deem offensive, the whole litany. Meanwhile, within the federal government, fiscal policy will be made in secret by corporations and social policy will pander to a concrete religious base that maintains intolerance *is* a holy tenant.
Of course, with Kerry, the whole DRM thing will continue, and there's no promise that student's right to use the GPL, which the Democratic Senator from Microsoft has tried to ban before, will survive four years with either party. His health care plan scares the gizzard outta me.
I'm a big believer in mixed government. Kerry is only up on Bush by 4% in Washington as of the latest polling rounds, which sucks because if it had been bigger I'd've voted for Badnarik. Omaha wants to discourage me from voting for Badnarik anyway because she's dismayed by the platform entry that states he'd bring the troops home immediately; well, that's a consequences of principles and principle number one is that the United States government has no business getting involved in foreign adventures that are not explicitly defensive. And I doubt things in Iraq could get "much worse" than they are now.
But I guess I'm voting for Kerry. I'm going to vote for a Democrat (and wash my hands afterward) because, well, malevolence, malfeasance, incompetence, and a disconnection from reality have been the hallmarks of the current administration.
Jim Hightower once commented that "If the Gods had wanted us to vote they would have given us candidates." Well, the Gods gave us something worse: an anti-candidate, compared to whom anything else on offer is preferable.
Oh, come on....
Date: 2004-10-25 10:41 pm (UTC)A vote for Kerry is a vote for choas and disorder.
Re: Oh, come on indeed...
Date: 2004-10-26 10:07 am (UTC)"We will win the war on terror." - G.W. Bush, Aug 2004.
"I don't think American needs a congressional comission [to investigate 9/11]." - G.W. Bush
"I welcome the findings of the congressional commission." - G.W. Bush
"It is not the duty of the United States to build nations, to go around the world and say, 'This is the way it's supposed to be.'" - G.W. Bush
"We will give the Iraqi people their own country." - G.W. Bush
"We found weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories." - G.W. Bush
"I recognize we didn't find the weapons we all believed were there." - G.W. Bush.
"I believe [gay marriage] is an issue for the states." - G.W. Bush
"I support a constitutional admentment protecting marriage in this country." - G. W. Bush.
"I believe in free trade. I believe in a free market." - G.W. Bush, who then went on to impose trade and tariff restrictions on steel, and provide subsidies for American farmers.
"I'm not in favor of McCain-Feingold." - G.W. Bush, who then signed it into law.
"You can't distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein when it comes to terrorism." - G.W. Bush, 2002.
"There is no evidence that Saddam Hussein was helping Al Qaeda." - G.W. Bush, 2004.
Flip flopped? No one has flipflopped more than G.W.
http://www.50bushflipflops.org/Introduction/home.html
Re: Oh, come on indeed...
Date: 2004-10-26 02:01 pm (UTC)Grow up and wake up.
Re: Oh, come on indeed...
Date: 2004-10-26 02:07 pm (UTC)In case you've missed it, I decided back in 2001, before 9/11, that I could not vote a second time for a man who spoke to my deepest principles on freedom, and then proceeded to violate those principles with each and every stroke of a pen. Even before 9/11, Bush spoke about the need for smaller, less intrusive government more aligned with the free market; such a president would be veto'ing most of the bills on his desk, yet Bush has never once veto'd anything.
He's an ass-kisser of the brownest nose.
I'm adult enough to know what principles are, and what compromises are. Kerry's "flip flops" are not like Bush's; they're the product of a man trying to find middle ground. Bush has divided this country until there is no middle ground, and that's horrible and sad.
So, I can't vote for Bush. If I were an absolutist, I would vote for nobody at all for the presidency. But this season I'm voting against the man who cannot yet answer the question, "What have 1,000 Americans died for in Iraq?"