I actually voted to be in the bukkake before I voted against it.

[uberreiniger]

What follows is from a comment I left in someone else's LJ, but as I think about it, I think it sums up everything I have felt in regards to the election aftermath.

"I have normally accounted my ability to see both sides of things as a blessing, but not this year. I can only imagine that there must be great comfort in knowing that one's own side is right and that everyone else is wrong/evil/a monster. I have spent most of the last year wondering what I should do on November 2nd and now spent most of this past day wondering if I did the right thing. (That was really the source of most of my depression.) I suppose I should just let it go since you can't unring a bell, put toothpaste back into the tube, or any number of other tired aphorisms for not being able to change something once it's happened. At least my own struggle is largely within myself. I'm looking around me seeing people shedding actual tears over this election's outcome, seeing friendships torn apart... It doesn't leave me with a very good attitude about what we have become. Or may become still."

So that's it, short and sweet; all the more I will say on the election issue. Now if you'll all excuse me, I need to go see about overturning Roe vs. Wade, as if overturning it were a brand new idea no one has tried before. Then I need to redunantly write some already-existing laws into some state constitutions depriving gay people of rights they already didn't have. After that I need to alienate some international allies who never really liked us in the first place.

And when all that's over with, I will say "fuck you" to anybody who can't take a joke.

Comments

[cygny.livejournal.com]

I think it's amazing how many people talk about these elections as if the world has already ended, or nearly. I'm not sure how I feel about it myself and not willing to give it any more thought, since there's nothing I can do to change it and I guess all that everyone can do now is to try and make the best out of things. Anyway, I hope that you'll soon get over this dip! *hugs*

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I'm getting over it. Time for me and my country to move on :)

[elvinborn.livejournal.com]

I really can't understand how everyone is so angry about the whole thing. and the tears..what's with that? Maybe I'm too.....reasonable for all the melodramatic crap. people are actually unfriending and losing real friends over this. it's all very surreal to me. Yesterday, my resounding feeling toward the whole election thing was thank God it's not going to drag on for months. I'm just glad it's over.

[freyjas-child.livejournal.com]

The tears make as much sense to me as say the girls crying over seeing Prince Charles and his sons when they vacationed at Whistler, BC, Canada>.>
I'm just glad it's over with and besides....seeing as I dislike Bush...I'm thankful this is his last time in office....thus I look on my bright side of things~L~

:and if the sun comes up tomorrow, let her be:

[ksracxe.livejournal.com]

I am not angry.
I am not really depressed.
I am not going to live in fear.
I am not going to allow myself to get caught up in conspiracy theories.
I am going to deal.
I am going to go ahead with my life.
I will have another chance in 4 years.

That is how I feel.

Blah.

And you totally got caught with the song you are listening to, but then again .. I know the words so .. *sigh*

Re: :and if the sun comes up tomorrow, let her be:

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

That song has been in my head for days now. I couldn't fight it anymore :)

can i get a "HuzzaH!"?? Well, CAN I?

[stitchedsutures.livejournal.com]

hey, i like what you wrote... heh.. even though it spawned a ljdrama-worthy fountain of fun earlier :D

I must say, i've actually been pretty amused these last few days in a way when i think about it. I think being amused helps keep me from getting overly involved in all the rampant emotions out there right now. Helps me keep perspective.

Re: can i get a "HuzzaH!"?? Well, CAN I?

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

As Byron said, "if I laugh at any mortal thing, tis that I may not weep."