Nervous?
by ChrisNovember 3rd, 2004 10:11 pm
Me too. I keep trying to think of the right thing to write - the right thing to say - the best way to put a good light on events that have gone, in my mind, so wrong. I can’t.
Last night, I watched the election returns with my old roommate from college. We were both, I think, struck with a strange sense of isolation. Isolation from the beliefs and happenings of our country. Living in Philadelphia makes it difficult, I think, to get a real feeling for the ideas, emotions and fears of a great portion of our nation’s populace. I think that a great many people in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Washington, Baltimore and so many other big cities feel that same sense of isolation today. Many others do as well. Needless to say, an isolated feeling it is not.
The American people were not fooled into voting this man into office. They evaluated him and his policies and decided that he was the best choice. Like it or not, the American people have spoken.
Last night I was disgusted. Tonight, I’m confused. I fail to understand how a person of sound mind and good conscience could vote for man whose record of failure is so plain to see. I fail to understand how people who live far from skyscrapers or nuclear power plants or financial centers or major ports or any other genuine targets of terrorism, are so frightened that they claim, in exit polls, that it is the number on reason they are voting for a candidate. A candidate, I’ll remind you, who was rejected, overwhelmingly, by the people who live in those places most at risk.
…more later. I’m not up to writing any more right now.
