take heart

Well, Ellen is right, GWB can't be president again after 4 years. This is very good news. I've just read many articles on NYTimes and WashPost online about how we "Blue" Americans are swimming in a sea of Red, and how alienated we feel. I am worried about what will happen international the next 4 years, I don't think that this world will become a safer place. But then again, I'm just happy that no one has tried to blow anything up in Moscow the past 2 months (knock on wood).

What was most interesting about many of these articles was the perception on the "Red" side how far we Democrats appear to have strayed from core values. Apparently we are all gay polygamists in the making. And this is what really motivated people in the polling places. We're out to dismantle marriage. Maybe America has always been a conservative country. I mean, we do come from Puritan stock, some of us, and as one article said, Democrats have struggled since after WWII. Look what happened to socialists, too, whereas in Europe, socialist parties had legitimate places in the electorate, controversial though it may have been. Maybe America will always see itself as the preserver of some sort of ideal, that was enshrined after WWII, where we saved Europe from only one of many conflagrations it had "managed to get itself into." We came to see ourselves as more wise, instead of just different, with grew the inability to see that the world is full of difference, and nuance, and all sorts of ways of living, of being. Some are questionable - and by that I mean people who aspire to blow people up for a living, but who are we, really to say who is right and who is wrong? Just my two cents on the matter for right now.

My roomie needs the internet, so I have to go.
poka, from one of many aspiring totalitarian states in this world.

Desi