Brief exchange I had with an English friend of mine:
I wrote:
Oh, woe is we.
Woe is us.
And he replied:
Astonishing--not to mention depressing as fuck--turn of
events. With such a high turnout I was sure Kerry had it. Everyone was.
How wrong we all were. :-(
To which I replied:
Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people.
25 years of unrelenting propaganda - liberals are fag loving effete snobs. 25 years of unrelenting anti-intellectualism - liberals are all pointy headed academics who attend those northeastern elite universities (Shrub went to *both* Yale and Harvard) and teach your children to be lilly liverred,
you guessed it, fags. 25 years of defining government as the largest, most dangerous enemy known to the "average" American citizen.
Decades of ignorance and fear, prompting people to vote, time and again, in direct contradiction to their own self-interest. The Empire is in full throat. This national arrogance and foolishness will have to run it's course -
longer than another presidential election cycle - until something catastrophic happens, or the long dull crumbling of empires all through history takes hold.
Woe is we indeed.
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My English friend had told me in advance of the election that British TV news would be carrying the results live, a la American television. Extraordinary, when you think of it. American TV has never run live programming coverage of an election anywhere in the world, yet the British feel the outcome of ours is so crucial to the entire world they broadcast the process of tallying the votes.
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