Can we survive the next four years?

[Neo]

With a Kerry concession speech seemingly imminent we must face the realization that Bush will still be the president. The fact that he won the popular vote by over 3 million votes is truly astounding considering how polarized the nation seemed to be. All signs seemed to point to a Kerry victory. The polls were close enough in the Ohio and Florida that the young vote combined with record turnouts should have given Kerry victories. But there can be no disputing a margin of 400,000 votes in Florida. It's simply astounding that Bush could win by such a large margin and begs the question of where did these votes come from? The large turnouts in Florida and elsewhere possibly belonged to the Christian right. I underestimated how far their infection had spread across our country. And while young people favor Kerry they did not turn out in greater amounts than they did in 2000. If Bush instates a draft then they have only themselves to blame when they find their asses getting blown off in Iran, North Korea or Syria. That is of course unless P-Diddy follows through with his death threats. The fact that rural vote was responsible for electing Bush is particularly disturbing. Rural areas mainly consist of low-income, uneducated, superstitious, narrow-minded conservative wackos. I read a post by one of these mindless zombies which read "I pray for Bush to be elected since we are in the end times and the rapture is upon us. Think of how much it would increase the glory of God to have a conservative Christian leading our country." Now there is simply no place for that kind of idiocy in a civilized 21st century culture. I am confident that as the population increases technology and education will eventually bring light to these dark areas. Religion has always been retreating from science and it's just a matter of time before these brainless sheep come to their senses.

Now we must continue to deal with a president who doesn't mind industries polluting our skies as long as it can make rich people even richer. His bungled efforts in the war on terror coupled with misguided tax cuts have run of the deficit to almost record proportions. He still hasn't come forth to explain how he plans to pay for any of this. His spend spend spend ideology is antithetical to the republican principles of fiscal responsibility which is the main reason many republicans resent him. The rest of the world will continue to hate us and god forbid if we ever need them to come to our aid. We live in an interconnected global community and cannot afford to alienate our neighbors, regardless of what gun-toting gay bashers would have you believe. It is our duty to make a concerted effort to educate all Americans and to increase their tolerance of things which live outside the little boxes they've imprisoned their minds with. If Bush has not instilled a total theocracy by 2008 then I pray that Barack Obama can pull us out of this mess and erase the deficit that Bush has created, much like Clinton erased the deficit that Bush senior created.

God help us all.