Poetry to Make Sense of the World
I have decided to use this space more as a quasi public journal, to be shared with friends and family, to express my thoughts and ideas and with an open invitation for comments and discussion. Here is the first entry.
I understand better what Sam meant when he said that he felt like it was another 9/11. Shock. And I don’t really think that it is a shock that Bush won…the polls had predicted it would be 51-48, that is not surprising. It is a confluence of events, Renqhists’ cancer, Republican control of the senate, more than anything, the religious right’s sense of a mandate. The fundamentalists are what gave this election to Bush and they will expect things in return and he has shown that he will repay their loyalty. He is not a uniter, he is a divider. You can see now the whole strategy that began with the constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage…it was a farce, a ruse to get the subject out in the open, to scare people into going to the poles. A feel bad for the gay people in America that were used as pawns for his re-election.
I fear for the people that they will use while they are in power.
I think that the world could distinguish between Bush, the candidate who basically bought the 2000 election with the Supreme Court, and the American people. Iraq was Bush’s war. But now that the American people have elected him outright, there is no longer a distinguished line between them…and now, I feel like we are less safe because of it.
We are in the beginning steps of loosing stability as a democracy. Gridlock gave us stability and we grew powerful at the same time, we became the only superpower and the prime driver of the world’s economy. The religious right wanted to be the driver of this big SUV we call America, and the strategy they used to wrangle control of the steering wheel is to divide us. We will be less stable now, more anger, more cutthroat. One the one hand it is good because people will be more involved, but it will costs us in Unity. The world respected us because of our stability, they will no longer respect us for that, and they will have less faith in us as the driver of the world’s economy…and we will slowly, or rapidly fall back down to being another member of the world community, and not the lone superpower…and maybe that will be a blessing as well.
God’s will be done.
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