Stoical

[poliphilo]

I did think of staying up to see the results come in. I'm glad I didn't. It's turned 9 o'clock and we still don't have a result.

But it looks like four more years of Bush.

I'm not going to make a fuss. I'm going to be stoical about this. If Ohio goes for Bush (as looks likely) it'll be a convincing victory. Demos will have spoken.

Look, I'm a European; I don't get Bush at all. Apart from a certain folksiness and ease around people, I don't see anything about him that would make me want to vote for him. I think he's unintelligent. I think he's a front man for the corporations. And I think his foreign policy is wrong in every particular.

Alexander the Great and his gang come clattering up the street. Horsehair plumes and flashing bronze. And they come across Diogenes sitting in his barrel. The greatest living general meets the greatest living philosopher. It's the ancient Greek equivalent of a photo-op.

So Alexander says to Diogenes, "Anything you want I'll give it you. All you have to do is name it."

And Diogenes says, "OK. Please get out of my light."

Comments

[queen-in-autumn.livejournal.com]

I don't have much to add to what's already been said. This is another American who is appalled by the fact that so many of my fellow-citizens support someone who has lied to us, who blatantly favors his fellow plutocrats, who is not very intelligent, who is arrogant, and -- most of all -- who continues to insist that the bloody debacle in Iraq is somehow good for our country -- or anyone.

I think he wins because he exploits fear. Somehow the fact that our soldiers are "over there" holding guns and sheddig blood translates into some peoples' minds that we are safer here. (Never mind the fact that the guy behind 9/11 is still at large.) Then there is the fear of homosexuals and the whole "defense of marriage" campaign. People listen to Bush's rhetoric and choose to believe that he will protect them from the bogeymen.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I also think that people out there in the heartland are ill-informed. They don't get to see or read anything but rightist propaganda. They haven't an inkling of how badly things are going in Iraq (and Afghanistan) or how hostile the rest of the world is to Bush and his policies.