One week later... And the four year countdown hasn't even begun.

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."
- Thomas Jefferson

Ok it has now been half a fortnight now and so far no one has woken me up on Wednesday Nov 3 to tell me that it was all just a bad dream and that the American people did not vote like they just escaped from a mental institution. But I am starting to feel like I am not going to wake up... That the American people did make a colossal mistake and that we have to like with it for the next four years, one month, and twenty days. Not to mention whatever long term effects that this will have with us worldwide.

Now it's time to look at the bright side. Ummm.... Ok.

Now it's time to look at where to go from here. It is fine to joke about it, we all have but if you do move to Canada then you are more ignorant than the people who you believe forced you there. The quickest way to turn a 51% - 48% county into a 62% - 36% country is by abandoning your post.

I have been thinking about this a lot lately and have decided a couple of things. I have a duty to my country to try to shape into the face of true freedom and equality it is meant to be. I hate my government right now but there is shit that I can do about that. I also hate a good deal of the American public, those who stay willfully ignorant but decide to vote anyway there is also shit I can do about that, Americans are lazy by nature and I don't see that changing anytime soon unless a candidate can work their talking points into an Episode of CSI: Miami. What I can do is try my best to keep them in line for now and to make sure that come 2008 that there is a candidate in office that actually deserves to be there and that has the best interests of my country at heart. My country is kind of shitty right now and I want to make it better1.

I am going to think about this a little more and write about it tommorow, until then peace out. And I hate everyone... Except you.




1. Just a quick side note on a pet peeve of mine. Never ever... ever respond to a statement like this with "Well find a better country." I don't give a good goddamn about how our country compares to another country if I see something wrong with it I am going to fix it as best I can.