Huh?
Huh?
Who can possibly think that 4 more years is a good thing? Let me restate that I'm not a Kerry supporter, but rather anti-Bush. I'd vote for anyone before him.
Every article I've read which give opinions of people outside of the US says that the majority of the world did not want Bush to win. The only explanation I have is that most Americans are ignorant, and that they don't understand the ramifications of these past four years on the world as a whole. The world (except those in the pockets of America) largely disagrees with American policy, and it's going to do nothing now but get worse. But then again, here in America, we rule, right?
People who support Bush say they are afraid bad things would happen if Kerry got elected. Bad things?? Worse than getting attacked, going to war, killing innocent civilians and military people, lying to the American public, robbing American taxpayers to pay a company with relations to the administration, ruining the American economy, sending American jobs overseas while American unemployment rises, not controlling rise healthcare and drug costs, closing the gap between church and state, the list goes on. Worse than that?
I stick to the fact that approximately 51% of Americans don't get it, and I'd like to think that it's not that they support the current administration and want these things, but rather that they want to believe in their hearts that they are doing good by lending their support. Kinda like a religion. Oh wait, it is like a religion (25% evangelical vote in Ohio, I'm talking to you). They believe what they believe, and that's that, without even considering that there are alternatives.
But seriously, who cares if you don't like Kerry, wouldn't it have been better to at least give it a shot, rather than just give up 4 more years?
Who can possibly think that 4 more years is a good thing? Let me restate that I'm not a Kerry supporter, but rather anti-Bush. I'd vote for anyone before him.
Every article I've read which give opinions of people outside of the US says that the majority of the world did not want Bush to win. The only explanation I have is that most Americans are ignorant, and that they don't understand the ramifications of these past four years on the world as a whole. The world (except those in the pockets of America) largely disagrees with American policy, and it's going to do nothing now but get worse. But then again, here in America, we rule, right?
People who support Bush say they are afraid bad things would happen if Kerry got elected. Bad things?? Worse than getting attacked, going to war, killing innocent civilians and military people, lying to the American public, robbing American taxpayers to pay a company with relations to the administration, ruining the American economy, sending American jobs overseas while American unemployment rises, not controlling rise healthcare and drug costs, closing the gap between church and state, the list goes on. Worse than that?
I stick to the fact that approximately 51% of Americans don't get it, and I'd like to think that it's not that they support the current administration and want these things, but rather that they want to believe in their hearts that they are doing good by lending their support. Kinda like a religion. Oh wait, it is like a religion (25% evangelical vote in Ohio, I'm talking to you). They believe what they believe, and that's that, without even considering that there are alternatives.
But seriously, who cares if you don't like Kerry, wouldn't it have been better to at least give it a shot, rather than just give up 4 more years?
1 Comments:
At 2:20 PM, Jared Jones said…
I share your anguish. I also am far from pro-Kerry, but, my God, what have we done? I'm most concerned about exactly what you point out: "majority of the world did not want Bush to win." There may be domestic reasons to prefer Bush (though that's plenty debatable), but it's hard for me to swallow the notion that adherents to a religion with a primary command to "love your neighbor as yourself" could really reaffirm this president.
I console myself (perhaps delusionally) with the awareness that, of the people I know who voted for Bush, every one is concerned about Iraqi citizens. THey have a very different vision of how to put that into action, but their intentions are honorable. As I say, it's not much of a consolation.
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