My fog is finally clearing too. I’m over Mr. Bush. I’ve spent almost a year reading every book that comes out, more new articles than I want to admit, history books, looking up every political name that I don’t know, tracking neoconservatives, etc. I’m done with Bush and Cheney. They’ve been the worst, most disrespectful and disrespectable politicians in my lifetime – including Nixon. Nixon was just a crook, but he tried to be a decent President. These guys aren’t even trying. They’re just following the half-assed directives of a bunch of misanthropic crackpots. So I’m over them. You won’t be hearing a lot from me about them any more. To my mind, they’re history.
I’m not over the Religious Right. Those people are still extremely dangerous. It’s not the issues. I can live with their concrete issues. Call gay union something else, like "gay union," and get out of the way with stem cell research. But I don’t need to worry about that. Michael J. Fox will take care of it. I think the Religious Right is dangerous because they’re so gullible. They actually elected a fascist government based on the gratuitous lies of the Bush Administration. I perceive them as having voted against the tenets of their own religion – torture, war, corruption, domestic spying, etc. Christians used to be responsible voters. They aren’t any more.
I’m not over the War in Iraq. The war was started on a false premise for a false reason with a false objective. There is no solution to such an enterprise. I not only want us out. I even want us to apologize in the U.N. I believe that the age of the U.N. has finally arrived, and it’s our job to support it and even let it rein in our nuclear power.
So I hope I can get over Bush and the daily checking in that’s been such a driven part of my life for the last year. I’m glad I did it, but I don’t have any more in me. I’m just so glad that so many other Americans were as upset as I was and looked a little deeper into what was going on. We did the right thing, and I feel proud about that.
I’m still periodically teary about the elections, though. So, all of the fog isn’t all gone…
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