Election 2004 - America just hocked its future on the altar of self-righteous hatred and bigotry

…I'm afraid America has chosen a course that will result in some radical consequences for us all. Paranoid America, selfish and greedy America, flag-waving America, "love it or leave it" America has now entered a very dark age that will leave many devastated, though they know it not at present. If you want a positive vision, stop reading this now. If you want a vision of what has just been unleashed, keep reading.

We have economic and environmental trainwrecks coming not that far down the road. In the near future, expect some very bitter battles re: judiciary and the laws of this land as they have been traditionally interpreted. [P6: And expect ALL those battles to come down within the next two years. Most will begin within the next two months.] America just hocked its future on the altar of self-righteous hatred and bigotry. In their zeal to shove an evangelical "I'm headed for the rapture" mindset down the throats of half of America, the radical right forgets that it is the blood of their children who will pay for their zealotry.

Yesterday millions voted a mandate for perpetual war, perpetual debt, perpetual polarization, the continuing erosion of our civil rights and civil liberties and ever increasing pollution of our water and air while industry gets tax breaks, the wealthy get tax breaks, Republican contributors get tax breaks, and the rest of us can like it or leave it. This election will leave America in shambles before many years are past, when we've wasted our remaining blood and resources and the Chinese call our markers.