I Concede
The unbelievable has happened. Maybe I shouldn’t be too surprised, but I truly am, deeply. The President with the worst performance record for the last 70 years has been re-elected. How did this happen? This is a reflection of how the majority, however slight, believes and thinks in this country. Were people convinced Kerry was so bad of an option? Do they actually believe George Bush is doing a good job? Do they not mind paying the exorbitant prices for health insurance and prescriptions? Do people actually subscribe to Bush’s plan in Iraq (or lack of)? The possible answers worry me to no end.
I have an immense sinking feeling inside. Somehow I have to live with the fact that I will have to continue paying way too much for health insurance. I will have to continue to shrug my shoulders when asked about America’s thinking when I travel in Europe, continuing to say, “I don’t know” and “Don’t ask me”. I will remain ashamed of American politics for another 4 years and what I really dread is the fact that I will have to watch my generations’ Vietnam unfold in front of me as people die on a daily basis for a cause we may never really find out the truth about.
There are so many things I’m overlooking right now, but I am truly distraught and saddened that we all will have to continue to live under an administration that has been all too secretive and misleading and has the innate ability to convince the majority they are just. I think I’m going to tune out of politics for a while in search of things that are good and satisfying. It will be too masochistic for me stay as embedded in it anymore.
I will no longer be surprised when I hear of soldiers or civilians dying or being beheaded, it won’t anger me when the U.S. invades another Middle Eastern country preemptively or if the Corporations continue their deportation of the middle class jobs while getting rewarded with tax cuts. I will know that that is what the majority of my country wants and I just to have to live with. Like John Kerry is about to do, I concede.