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Nov. 3rd, 2004 01:01 pmThis person kinda sums it up for me:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/elz/
I don't think that I am going to look up a soup kitchen, but I am looking at various activist and political organizations. Lack of a car is gonna hurt, but I can either curl up in a ball and the let the haters win, or I can try to do something.
I am shocked, I am appalled, I can't believe that America decided to do this to themselves. I don't have the words to express my rage, frustration, grief and disbelief. When my mother told me she wasn't going to vote for Bush, that the women who is normally oppositional to me on all political and religious views had seen through his showmanship to the lying, chearting, asshole inside, I had hope.
Everyone calls me a pessimist. I didn't see this one coming.
I have been reading a good many blogs recently. I have decided to add some of them to my friends list. Most of them are counseling tolerance, counseling against name-calling. It's hard. I keep tell myself that hate doesn't help anything. That my religion (despite what the religous right trys to do it) counsels tolerance and loving one's enemies. That I know people who voted for Bush and I don't want to be angry at them. That I don't want to lose friends over this issue.
But not a single blogger I added is voted for Bush. I think I am going to care too much about the issues. I think my right to control my own body, the bill of rights - these are going to end up being too important to me. I am scared. I had hoped that wouldn't come. But I can see it on the horizon. And I am scared.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/elz/
I don't think that I am going to look up a soup kitchen, but I am looking at various activist and political organizations. Lack of a car is gonna hurt, but I can either curl up in a ball and the let the haters win, or I can try to do something.
I am shocked, I am appalled, I can't believe that America decided to do this to themselves. I don't have the words to express my rage, frustration, grief and disbelief. When my mother told me she wasn't going to vote for Bush, that the women who is normally oppositional to me on all political and religious views had seen through his showmanship to the lying, chearting, asshole inside, I had hope.
Everyone calls me a pessimist. I didn't see this one coming.
I have been reading a good many blogs recently. I have decided to add some of them to my friends list. Most of them are counseling tolerance, counseling against name-calling. It's hard. I keep tell myself that hate doesn't help anything. That my religion (despite what the religous right trys to do it) counsels tolerance and loving one's enemies. That I know people who voted for Bush and I don't want to be angry at them. That I don't want to lose friends over this issue.
But not a single blogger I added is voted for Bush. I think I am going to care too much about the issues. I think my right to control my own body, the bill of rights - these are going to end up being too important to me. I am scared. I had hoped that wouldn't come. But I can see it on the horizon. And I am scared.
