Whoa.

Well, I read online this morning that Kerry has conceded.
This is a sobering moment.
Mark Morford wrote some time ago that maybe we need another four years of Bush to show us what a shitty president can really do to this country. Maybe he’s right.
I also read that 10 more states have chosen to ban gay marriage.
This is a difficult morning for me, a morning where it is driven home that at least half of the country cares more about how scared they are of terrorists than about my rights as a woman or my friends’ rights as homosexuals. At least half of the country isn’t worried about what more conservative judges will do to the Supreme Court or what Bush might drag us into given another four years to lie to us and manipulate our fears.
But it has also been driven home to me that almost half the country voted for Kerry. We voted for our rights, our friends’ rights, for an America the world will stop laughing at, and not because they’re scared of us, either. Almost half the country voted for a man who follows his conscience, even when its dictates are against those of his church. We voted for a man who’s not afraid to change his mind about something when it’s proven that he was wrong. We voted for a man who actually served his country in a time of war by going to the front, unlike a single person on Bush’s staff.
So I will try to have hope. If Bush sucks enough in the next four years, maybe those undecided and swing voters will realize what horrors they’ve brought upon us all and get their shit together.
I’d say “let’s move to Canada” but somehow I think if Bush can screw up my life here in CA that badly, Canada won’t be all that much safer.