I might be the last family member awake. It’s 1 AM in California, way past my bedtime, and only now did I finally get up off the couch and turn off the TV. When Kerry hit 242 electoral votes, I had spasms of hope, but they are gone. There is still a chance, I know, but the fact that Bush is 5 million ahead in the popular vote, and that he has led this race from the minute the polls opened is telling.<\/p>\n
In 2000, I hardly took the election seriously because I thought it laughable that Bush would get elected. I predicted a minor landslide this year in favor of Kerry. And while I know that there are a thousand things more important, I can’t help but think about the opinions of people in every other country in the world- what must they think of us, we who had a chance to right a horrible wrong and instead stuck our heads in the sand.<\/p>\n
I will try not to despair, I will try to take Sean’s advice and be incredibly artistically productive tomorrow. I’m sad, ashamed, demoralized… but mostly I am really, really pissed off that the madman is around for another four years. I’m really pissed off that he’s frightened over half of my fellow Americans into voting for him. And now, I’m going to finally go throw up and go to bed, and then wake up and try to figure out what to do.<\/p>\n
I mean, seriously, what exactly went wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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