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Deric,
While I'd like to go along with your Blue Skies thinking on this, I really can't.
The last time the good people of the USA elected a right wing lunatic to be in charge of the most powerful destructive force ever known to humanity, for a second term, it could have turned out better. And Reagan would, I suspect, have to struggle a bit in the Republican Party these days, what with his Hollywood connections ( " Proly a fag, proly done drugs, and if that man's been saved, *wife,* then I sure as shooting ain't as crazy as an armed rat who's been hitting the moonshine, hard, for days. " )
I just don't see any cause for optimism here at all. On so many levels the result would appear to be decisive, that a narrow majority of American voters has come to the conclusion that the best thing for the human race to do is execute itself, and that so, accordingly, they've picked the man for the job. Appalling as the Bush team's attitude undoubtedly is to things like guns, non-marital sex and *rogue states,* those are, to a certain ( unacceptable, but still, there you go ) extent, negotiable.
The world won't end over the head of those questions.
What's going to finish it off, though not immediately perhaps, is this apparently hard-wired refusal to accept that all those weird beards who go on about the state of the planet, and that, may in fact have a point. |
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