Even Republicans Are Welcome

I open this on a chilly post election day afternoon. My friends and I had been calling the election for months now, despite the fact none of us liked the outcome we were predicting--the outcome that's growing more and more likely.

Sometimes it hurts my head to talk with people who support Bush--especially if they support his domestic policies, or his war in Iraq. I've seen too many suffer under the thumb of the current (fascist religious) regime and all those Bush voters just don't seem to live in the same universe as any of the rest of us. Other nations are going to lose every last vestige of respect they still had for us now.

Under Bush, I've lost funding assistance to my education, while watching tuition skyrocket. Both my wife and myself were forced to quit school with just 1-2 semesters pending in our current degrees. Likewise, because we also worked in education, educational budget cuts have cost both of us our jobs: creating an unemployed college graduate and a college graduate working retail sales in a shoe store. We, and our children, have no health coverage. We have no job prospects. Even if I wanted to go to Iraq, which I definitely do not, at 30 I'm too old to enlist. And I'm closer to never being able, if I so choose, to divorce my wife and marry my man, not that I have one right now anyway--but if I did, last night eleven of my states let me know how much they didn't love me.

And of course, I can't just leave the country because 1. due to this regime, I haven't the money to do so, and 2. deep down, I still love this country and hope for its betterment.

That's why we're here. We know the opposition will continue walking with their blinders. But we're tired of it, and while some of us might present things somewhat more bitchy than others (well, we all have our days) it's time we came together and started talking about what our government is doing to hurt its people.

My only goal is to open a few more eyes and maybe there'll be a USA to save in four years.