11.2.04
It looks at this hour (11:02 pm) like the election is a pretty done deal. James Carville called it as over two hours ago, and he's doesn't exactly have a weak nerve. Ed Bradley, surely the most intelligent commentator on television now that Jon Stewart is off, called it an hour and a half ago.
What does this mean? What is the appropriate response?
It is one thing to live in a country where a weak-ass candidate (Gore) and a wicked Supreme Court hand the presidency over to this weak-ass semi-literate fuck from Texas. It's another thing to contemplate living side-by-side with people who would actually CHOOSE this man as their leader. They choose him after Abu Ghraib, after Enron, after Iraq, after rejecting the Kyoto Protocol, after the economy turned into a dog shit taco, the 'tax cuts', the PATRIOT ACT, the Alaskan drilling, the 'pre-emptive strike' doctrine, the absence of WMDs in Iraq, the award of no-bid contracts to Haliburton, the refusal to hand over energy policy documents that are subpoenaed by Congress, after all that the yokels of Redville select this prancing ape, this chimp, this inarticulate dandy schmuck to lead our country.
This man has 'character'?
What is the appropriate response?
I think I need to think seriously about a metric to establish a point at which when a certain even transpires, I will without question make plans to leave the country. The inactivity of the Warsaw Ghetto Jews is a clear warning that if you slide slowly into complete oppression it can catch you unawares. If they come on gradually, people will accept things that are inconceivable in the light of freedom. I need to have an extrenal, rational baromter to check so I don't end up like a lobster in a slowly-warming pan of water.
Has that metric already been passed? Is this a sign that our country has irretrievably sunk into confusion, and that our basic capacity as a society to set a rational course for ourselves has been irreperably damaged by a long diet of television and fear?
It looks at this hour (11:02 pm) like the election is a pretty done deal. James Carville called it as over two hours ago, and he's doesn't exactly have a weak nerve. Ed Bradley, surely the most intelligent commentator on television now that Jon Stewart is off, called it an hour and a half ago.
What does this mean? What is the appropriate response?
It is one thing to live in a country where a weak-ass candidate (Gore) and a wicked Supreme Court hand the presidency over to this weak-ass semi-literate fuck from Texas. It's another thing to contemplate living side-by-side with people who would actually CHOOSE this man as their leader. They choose him after Abu Ghraib, after Enron, after Iraq, after rejecting the Kyoto Protocol, after the economy turned into a dog shit taco, the 'tax cuts', the PATRIOT ACT, the Alaskan drilling, the 'pre-emptive strike' doctrine, the absence of WMDs in Iraq, the award of no-bid contracts to Haliburton, the refusal to hand over energy policy documents that are subpoenaed by Congress, after all that the yokels of Redville select this prancing ape, this chimp, this inarticulate dandy schmuck to lead our country.
This man has 'character'?
What is the appropriate response?
I think I need to think seriously about a metric to establish a point at which when a certain even transpires, I will without question make plans to leave the country. The inactivity of the Warsaw Ghetto Jews is a clear warning that if you slide slowly into complete oppression it can catch you unawares. If they come on gradually, people will accept things that are inconceivable in the light of freedom. I need to have an extrenal, rational baromter to check so I don't end up like a lobster in a slowly-warming pan of water.
Has that metric already been passed? Is this a sign that our country has irretrievably sunk into confusion, and that our basic capacity as a society to set a rational course for ourselves has been irreperably damaged by a long diet of television and fear?