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Sunday, November 07, 2004
AY, OH, WAY TO GO, OHIO, or THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU: I certainly don't have anything authoritative to add to the oceans of commentary spilled forth since the morning of November 3rd, other than my personal juicy fuck-you to everyone who voted to give George W. Bush a second term in the White House. From this moment forth, whenever I hear someone complain about the hemorrhagic costs of the Iraq war, the loss of jobs, or the next big terrorist attack on US soil, I will first ask them who they voted for in this election, and if I determine their vote was for Bush, I solemnly pledge to cram my boot way up their ass, be the ass female or male. Seriously, you have to go back to the O.J. Simpson acquittal to find a decision based on such a blatant disregard for evident facts. As has already been pointed out in a variety of forums, all the states directly hit by 9/11 (and the likeliest targets for any future such attacks) all voted for Kerry, while the far more sheltered "red states" went for Bush. Is there some mystery involved here? Of course not. It's simply that voters in those Northeastern states are less confused about the nature of their real enemies...and more mindful of who sat in the White House (or, more accurately, who zig-zagged nervously across the country aboard Air Force One) on Sept. 11, 2001. Why did working-class union-member voters in Philadelphia turn out in such numbers in an attempt to dump Bush? Because they're wised-up to the Administration's true plans for workers (like the new overtime rules passed earlier this year). Because they're too realistic to be swayed by appeals to absurdly minor issues like gay marriage. Because.... Aw, who am I kidding? The GOP strategists played this one like champs. Their grass-roots campaign trumped the Demo grass-roots campaign. The longwinded, anti-war professorial New Englander candidate with the FOREIGN-ACCENTED spouse didn't stand a chance against the folksy, repetitive churchy candidate with the worshipful small-town-librarian spouse (even if her driving record is a tad spotty). People vote with their big broad guts. People in the red states are cocooned and provincial. Americans with better-than-average educations and better-than-MOR tastes get the hell out of the red states (if they're from there originally) and move to the Coasts, while the rest stay put, experiencing global news from a vast remove, and making mammoth box-office hits out of barbarically reductive pseudo-religious movies. There are, broadly speaking, two Americas, and this Sunday morning I'm damn glad to live in the one that voted the way it did. The way I feel right now, the rest of you (if I may quote our illustrious and newly-re-elected Vice President) can go fuck yourselves. Thanks for everything. |
