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some_stars) wrote2008-11-05 10:07 am
some_stars) wrote2008-11-05 10:07 am
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so i have complicated feelings.
1. fucking overwhelming disbelieving joy
2. paranoid unwillingness to give in to joy because the margin was so thin--he got a landslide of electoral votes but by the actual numbers? anything less than 60/40 is going to leave me feeling unsafe still. all those states that unexpectedly went blue--the margins are so tiny, and so vulnerable if the economy improves a little, or--anything. i don't trust americans at all, basically.
3. total blinding rage at the gay-hate measures
4. sudden surprising hope that we killed three anti-choice measures, and one was thoroughly STOMPED. in colorado no less! i'm not hearing anyone talk about this, which i understand because #3 above is kind of ALL-CONSUMING, but...holy crap. i was almost certain the anti-choicers were going to keep gaining ground for at least another four years.
i don't know, i don't know. i still think america is too damn big and too split down the middle to succeed as a nation, but for now at least, we are inching reluctantly in the direction of being less shitty.
1. fucking overwhelming disbelieving joy
2. paranoid unwillingness to give in to joy because the margin was so thin--he got a landslide of electoral votes but by the actual numbers? anything less than 60/40 is going to leave me feeling unsafe still. all those states that unexpectedly went blue--the margins are so tiny, and so vulnerable if the economy improves a little, or--anything. i don't trust americans at all, basically.
3. total blinding rage at the gay-hate measures
4. sudden surprising hope that we killed three anti-choice measures, and one was thoroughly STOMPED. in colorado no less! i'm not hearing anyone talk about this, which i understand because #3 above is kind of ALL-CONSUMING, but...holy crap. i was almost certain the anti-choicers were going to keep gaining ground for at least another four years.
i don't know, i don't know. i still think america is too damn big and too split down the middle to succeed as a nation, but for now at least, we are inching reluctantly in the direction of being less shitty.