Thursday, November 04, 2004
The Reds
Politicians are like diapers. They should both be changed frequently and for the same reason.
--Anonymous
During 4th period today my history teacher told my depressed and angry democratic AP class that our county is far more informed than most other states because of the number of good colleges in the vicinity. Well I didn't talk to a single person in the past two weeks who was not experiencing an increase in quirky nervous habits due to the upcoming presidential election. My nails are entirely gone and not coming back although I have been quite satisfied that canker sores have taken a holiday. Of course, canker sores and nailbiting cancel each other out but that's not the point. 17% of registered voters aged 18-25 actually voted in the Nov. 2nd election--a number that I cannot help gawking at. It is beyond my capacity to understand how anyone could be so irresponsible as to not take advantage of their right/ability to influence the choice of leaders of this country for the next four years. I can think of at least 500 people who would give large amounts of money to have been able to cast a ballot the other day. This frustration of my own peer group coupled with my anger/sadness that Bush has been re-elected for four (4!) more years of the presidency cannot be expressed without a long rant. Looking at what I've written so far, I can only hope that I am at least halfway done.
Being surrounded by staunch democrats in these two days after the election, I have heard and infinite amount of threats and announcements to move to other countries (namely Canada and New Zealand) to get away from the Bushites, the utter dissolving of America into anarchy and violence, a non-physical civil war, a complete revolution, etc. These people are cowards. ¶ 6:02 PM
--Anonymous
During 4th period today my history teacher told my depressed and angry democratic AP class that our county is far more informed than most other states because of the number of good colleges in the vicinity. Well I didn't talk to a single person in the past two weeks who was not experiencing an increase in quirky nervous habits due to the upcoming presidential election. My nails are entirely gone and not coming back although I have been quite satisfied that canker sores have taken a holiday. Of course, canker sores and nailbiting cancel each other out but that's not the point. 17% of registered voters aged 18-25 actually voted in the Nov. 2nd election--a number that I cannot help gawking at. It is beyond my capacity to understand how anyone could be so irresponsible as to not take advantage of their right/ability to influence the choice of leaders of this country for the next four years. I can think of at least 500 people who would give large amounts of money to have been able to cast a ballot the other day. This frustration of my own peer group coupled with my anger/sadness that Bush has been re-elected for four (4!) more years of the presidency cannot be expressed without a long rant. Looking at what I've written so far, I can only hope that I am at least halfway done.
Being surrounded by staunch democrats in these two days after the election, I have heard and infinite amount of threats and announcements to move to other countries (namely Canada and New Zealand) to get away from the Bushites, the utter dissolving of America into anarchy and violence, a non-physical civil war, a complete revolution, etc. These people are cowards. ¶ 6:02 PM
