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By
PARIS, www.guerrillafunk.com
Nov. 3rd, 2004
Amazingly,
but not surprisingly, Bush won the White House. Another
victory for the Evil and Misinformed.
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Bush's recent
(and first-time) win of the presidency should come a surprise
to no one. It has validated the belief of many that America
has gotten what it deserves, even after enduring some of the
most horribly abusive foreign and domestic policies in
American history.
The fact that
it was even a close call at all is a damning condemnation of
those supposedly opposed to the Bush Bullshit. After four
years of lies, murder, back-room deals, dead soldiers, poor
education, a faulty economy, reduced civil liberties,
increasing crime rates and racial intolerance he still managed
to capture the popular and electoral count. This is sad, if
for no other reason than the fact that so many people are
blind to the truth and simply believe and hear what they want
to believe and hear, even in the face of mounting
impeachment-worthy lies and offenses. We couldn't even muster
support for the lesser of two evils, which would be laughable
if it weren't so sad. What an embarrassing time to be an
American.
This election
was won on fear--fear of a phantom terror menace and of
anything that could potentially hamper our "way of
life" in America--whatever that is. Now, without
constraints and unchecked, Bush can continue to wage war
globally, using U.S. military might to bring the "gift of
freedom" of "his" God to the world. War on who?
Why, war on all who aren't like him and his ilk, that's who.
War on women, war on people of color, war on those who don't
practice his twisted sense of "Christianity," war on
those who don't share his sexual preference, war on children,
and war on the less fortunate, the elderly and the infirm.
Now the left,
and democrats in particular, will have to take a long, hard
look at themselves. What went wrong? This was not a stolen
election. It was not a hijacking, mugging or a mistake. The
left dropped the ball, not so much for lack of trying
(especially with the youth vote), but for backing John
Kerry--a weaker version of Bush--in the first place. Maybe now
the party that is supposed to represent the values of the
mainstream left will actually adopt those values and not
ignore its own constituency in an attempt to appeal to a more
conservative base. Indeed, many at odds with Bush's illegal
wars were left feeling disillusioned by the fact that Kerry,
his main opposition, had very similar stances with regards to
his overseas agenda.
An election
this close must make us take pause. Maybe, after all, we
aren't nearly as far along as a country as we would like to
believe. And while it's true that for tens of millions of
Americans, Bush will never be our president, all we can really
do now is apologize to the rest of the world for validating
this simpleton and his racist imperialist policies--and brace
ourselves for the worst still yet to come. Apparently, we must
hit some sort of new low between now and 2008.
Most
disturbing of all is that George Bush will have the chance to
tilt the supreme court firmly to the right and leave a lasting
imprint on the US's social and political fabric. Three of the
nine supreme court justices could well step down in the next
few years. Chief justice William Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens,
and Sandra Day O'Connor will all probably step down, as two
are over eighty years of age and O'Connor, 74, has openly
expressed interest in wrapping up her service.
Keep in mind
that these are lifelong appointments, and that Bush wouldn't
have been selected for president in the first place had the
supreme court voted in 2000 to allow the recount to continue
in that presidential election (Gore would've won).
In the coming
years, the supreme court is expected to consider some of the
most divisive social issues in the US: private property rights
and government land seizure, gay marriage and partial-birth
abortion. A conservative court can all but guarantee that the
outcome will be less-than-favorable for those of us who value
fairness, justice and liberty.
Yes, America
has gotten what it deserves.
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