Where Was I?
So except for my recent Pope-fest post, it's been FIVE MONTHS since I've written on this heavily trafficked blog! ;) But where have I been?
Emotionally drained, that's where. That election hit me hard. Bush "won", my arch-nemesis David Vitter won a Senate seat (giving him MORE power), this total blow-hard Bobby Jindal won a seat in the House for my district. All bad, bad, DIRE news. At first I took it pretty well. I said, "Screw this, we'll just fight harder." But then I started noticing that no matter how hard you fight, there's always so many idiots out there willing to believe the bullshit Bush pumps out, there's always the right-wing media to grind your ass back into the mud, there's always politicians desperate to take away your rights.
This isn't a pep-talk. I'm still down about politics and about this country in general. I'm very worried and frightened. But I'm going to try and face it again, rather than spend five months shying away from anything political and especially my beloved blog (that no one reads...).
So that's where I've been. And in a delicious irony, yesterday and today, I've seen two of those Ad Council ads for registerandvote2004.org. A little late, are we?
posted by ccooper521 @ 9:43 AM
2 Comments:
From Sean, your Dog,
I read your blog.
Don't be in a fog.
I also say "look at the positive" with politics. Watch the right wingers, now that they're in power, start fracturing. They "own" D.C. but they can't seem to get anything more done than before. Republicans are starting to openly question those at the top. Whereas before Bush and Co. could do no wrong, this second term is starting on some shaky ground with the president's policies getting very hostile attention. Now that the attack from the libs is over we are starting to see less blind faith and more discussion, which is all I ever wanted.
Plus, the cost of the war in Iraq is starting (a little too late I might add) to make the "conservatives" bristle. Historically, they are less taxes/less spending types but we've seen Bush do the old less taxes/MORE spending.
I never believed Bush was evil, but it always scared me how devoted his followers were (and he seemed to buy into that hero worship shit), but it's nice to see fewer people jumping up and down in blind support.
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