i'm sorry.

i did tell myself i wouldn't get political on this blog. and indeed, i think i showed admirable restraint throughout the campaign. but now...i don't know. i'm just depressed. i'm depressed that we've elected a president who only sees black and white. i'm depressed that we'ev elected a president who misuses his power, one who trades on fear, one who uses a personal grudge as an excuse to destroy the lives of, at the very least, hundreds of thousands of people, one who wants to destory the carefully balanced government that some very, very intelligent men set up two-hundred-some years ago. a president who is apparently so ignorant as to how the government in this country works that he thinks he needs a consitutional ammendment to define civil marraige. i'm depressed that we have a majority in this country that is not only easily distractable but is so damn scared.

i can't stand the thought of another 4 years, or more, of destruction of due process, customer (consumer) rights, of a further widening between "rich" and "poor"...of simple, stupid things that are so telling once you pile them up in a heap, like viagra being covered by medicaid/care, but birth control isn't.

i'm not interested in blaming anyone or anything, for once in my life, i don't care about the root cause of something. i'm just feeling...depressed right now. helpless. i went out and voted yesterday. PA gave kerry all our 21 electoral votes. and now what? who knows.

i think, though, i'm most depressed that Tom Daschle, who is probably one of the best and smartest men in the u.s. government right now, was voted out in favour of a candidate who had to be ordered by a judge to stop following native americans back to their reservations from the polls and writing down their license plates.