Woke up this morning

I woke up this morning feeling a lot better. My feeling about the election now is “Fine. If this is what they, or at least 51% anyway, wanted, let em have it. Let the country go to hell. See if I care." I didn't have a special, vested interest in seeing Bush defeated. My support for John Kerry was based on what I thought was best for America and the massive corruption and ineptitude that I witnessed in the Bush administration. It wasn't based on wedge issues. I honestly don’t care if gays get married and women can get abortions. I voted on the economy, foreign policy/war, education, and the environment. All four of those are going to get worse, and we’ll see if that is truly okay with those people/voters, you know, so long as there are no gay marriages and abortions. Because I’m betting it won’t be. There WILL be a backlash to all this. Oh sure, there'll be no more abortions or gay marriages, but the economy will continue its downward slide as corporate interests take greater control of the country. There'll be plenty of new military excursions for the increasingly larger number of lower class American kids. The question is, will we survive it? I mean, for me, I am in a somewhat recession-proof line of work, though Bush is very, very bad for education. And I am too old to be drafted to go fight in Iraq or any subsequent wars. So I can probably get by. The trick, I think, is to be as uninformed as 51% of the electorate seems to be. Ignorance is bliss. Seriously, I am tempted to just tune out for a while. It doesn’t matter what I think or what I know until four years from now anyway. Paying attention for the next three years will only serve to make me angry, with no purpose or outlet.

One plus in all this is that I have had lots of stress to burn off this week. I’ve been having awesome runs. Erm, so to speak. Get it? That’s a diarrhea joke. :) I was referring to running, but it sounded like something else! See, I can make jokes again, so I know I’m coming out of my depression. :)

BTW, I know it’s hard, but remember that John Kerry got more votes than any losing Presidential candidate ever has. And this was still a close election, even if it wasn’t AS close as in 2000. It isn't quite the massive blowout that it feels like. Or that it's being portrayed as in the media. Even Bush thinks he has some sort of mandate, which is scary considering not having one before didn't seem to slow him down much.