To a large extent it bothers me more that people will vote for Bush than that he might be reelected. The world can forgive American ignorance in letting it happen once - after all it is clear that Bush was elected by a combination of errors (butterfly ballots), a flawed system (that allowed the Nader candidacy to factor in the final outcome), election fraud (turning away black voters in Florida), and a partisan supreme court. The world recognizes that it wasn't the will of the people (majority voted for Gore). But repeating this unmitigated disaster? That is just plain shocking. As Hunter S. Thompson put it in Rolling Stone:
The question this year is not whether President Bush is acting more and more like the head of a fascist government but if the American people want it that way. That is what this election is all about. We are down to nut-cutting time, and millions of people are angry. They want a Regime Change.
Madeleine Albright said something very similar on the Daily Show yesterday. Personally, I wish I could understand my friends and relatives who claim support for Bush. But it is impossible to reconcile intelligent, observant, caring individuals voting for Bush. I have been saying privately that if Bush wins, we leave the US for Sweden. Call me weak if you will, but I can't stomach four more years of being part of the destruction of what can be not just the most powerful country in the world, but that could easily be the best country in the world. With Bush's leadership we have turned it into the most indebted nation in the world, a country that doesn't care for its citizens' wellfare or the wellfare of its environment, a country that doesn't care what the world thinks about it or how it should be a the fine global citizen that it is capable of. I don't want part of that, and if y'all vote to re-elect the current goons, you can take this country and shove it up your collective you-know-whats. Because it angers me that you would do this to the country I love.
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