The networks are calling Ohio for Bush. Colorado went red fairly early. (Though in an odd twist of fate, it looks like Salazar will win the Senate seat, and the Democrats will gail control of the state legislature.)
There are many things I could say, none of them good. Just... Why America? Why?
In 2000, even assuming that election wasn't stolen, it was at least excusable. Back then, nobody knew the extent to which Bush would turn out to be such a rotten President. But now, having been given a 4-year demonstration, hellfire and brimstone style, there is no excuse for this country. Thanks to the 51-52%, America as a whole is damned.
Don't believe me? Even IF Bush doesn't go around starting more reckless wars, he has stated in the past that his two favorite Supreme Court Justices are Clearance and Scalia. No thanks to those two, for the past decade, the Supreme Court has been able to hold the worst legislative excesses in check; overturning unconstitutional dreck such as the CDA, and a Texas law which saw fit to try and regulate private sexual activities between consenting adults. With several of the justices set to be replaced this term, I am sick to think about what will happen when Bush gets more of his kind of people on the bench of the highest court on the land.
America will get what it deserves. This is sad. This is so sad. The minority often end up paying for the sins of the majority.
Two months ago, I said that if Colorado went red in the Presidential election, I would find somewhere else to take up residence. Now, having done almost nothing but sit around for the past week, I find myself almost overwhelmed with how I'm going to do this. At least now the waiting is over. (With the White House going to Bush again, there is a part of me that seriously thinks it would be a good idea to get out of the country altogether. But I don't think it's quite time for that yet. Here's hoping that when it is, the borders won't be completely sealed.)
I need to get away from the screen to think.