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Nov. 3rd, 2004 03:34 pmAll I ever do here is post about my broken heart.
I'm upset about the presidential results, of course. I won't rehearse why I believe Bush belongs securely in private life and out of my face. There are some of you reading this who disagree, and there seems to be very little point now. I'm stuck with him, and his brother in 2008, and his other brother after that. God!
My heart is broken because I used to believe that Americans basically didn't care what other Americans did with their lives as long as we all kept to certain rules involving things we *all* knew were bad, like hitting each other with rocks. There was, I thought, a grey area that covered things like your neighbor playing his stereo too loud- making his business your business. I never quite grasped how far people will push their own sacred comfort zone- how much of your business folks are prepared to consider theirs.
Naive, I know. And really sort of ironic. *I* make a lot of people uncomfortable by just walking around, for reasons that have nothing to do with any "lifestyle choice" I make. But it's what I thought.
The voter turnout was huge. I can't help but believe that the results reflect the attitudes of my country as a whole, not just some loud outliers at the ends of the bell curve. And it's great that everyone stood up to be counted. I'm just a little shocked that I'm *that* out of sync.
Well. Okay. That's how it is. But just because three million people all agree that gay marriage is wrong doesn't make them right. Just because Bush was reelected doesn't make him righteous, either. I embrace my new life as an obnoxious crank.
I'm upset about the presidential results, of course. I won't rehearse why I believe Bush belongs securely in private life and out of my face. There are some of you reading this who disagree, and there seems to be very little point now. I'm stuck with him, and his brother in 2008, and his other brother after that. God!
My heart is broken because I used to believe that Americans basically didn't care what other Americans did with their lives as long as we all kept to certain rules involving things we *all* knew were bad, like hitting each other with rocks. There was, I thought, a grey area that covered things like your neighbor playing his stereo too loud- making his business your business. I never quite grasped how far people will push their own sacred comfort zone- how much of your business folks are prepared to consider theirs.
Naive, I know. And really sort of ironic. *I* make a lot of people uncomfortable by just walking around, for reasons that have nothing to do with any "lifestyle choice" I make. But it's what I thought.
The voter turnout was huge. I can't help but believe that the results reflect the attitudes of my country as a whole, not just some loud outliers at the ends of the bell curve. And it's great that everyone stood up to be counted. I'm just a little shocked that I'm *that* out of sync.
Well. Okay. That's how it is. But just because three million people all agree that gay marriage is wrong doesn't make them right. Just because Bush was reelected doesn't make him righteous, either. I embrace my new life as an obnoxious crank.
