Elections 10-3-04

[kilroy]

Things I expect to lose if GWB is elected:

• My right to choose


• Any tenuous legality of gay marriages or civil unions


• My privacy


• My pension


• My job


• Any school system both good enough and affordable enough to send my children


• The ability to travel safely abroad


• My freedom of speech


• My trust in the basic intelligence of the American people

I keep having thoughts with headers like "New American Dark Age," and I keep thinking about the 1930s... we're going to have to spend the next forty years as a persecuted minority to undo all this damage. If it ever gets undone at all.

EDIT: Oddly enough, sanity came to me from the vehicle of Slashdot. Yes, most of the above things are true at least in part. But what am I going to do, jump ship and move to Canada? No. I stay here and fight against a government that I think is idiotic. I don't sit around and suffer through it, I find something I can do about it.

That's all there is to it, really. Time to step up.