Well, by now, I’m sure everyone has heard the news. Bush has been reelected. Four more years with an incompetent arrogant failure in charge of the country.
Obviously, I had really been hoping that Kerry would win. Was he the ideal man for the job? No. Was he a damn sight better than Bush? Absolutely.
But this election has shown something about America: After September 11, Bush had an eighty-eight percent approval rating. This should have been a massive blowout for Bush. But it wasn’t. He only won by three percent of the popular vote, with the largest voter turnout since the 1960s.
This means that a lot of Americans have woken up to the fact that George W. Bush is not the man for the job. Yes, Kerry lost, but we can’t give up now. There’s even more at stake now than before the election. We have to use this momentum to carry us through the next four years. If everyone just gives up and turns their backs in disgust, like I was ready to do early Wednesday morning, there will be no dissenting voices left.
Are you ready to give Bush and his political junta free reign? Do you want America to invade another country and kill another one hundred thousand innocent civilians? Are you willing to let the polluters continue running the very organizations that are supposed to protect us from them? Do you really think that by wiping out entire families, places of worship, and schools while waging a poorly planned and ill conceived “crusade” that we will create fewer terrorists?
Is the world that Bush is building the world that you want your children to grow up in?
Don’t give up. We can’t give up. Now, more than ever before, we must do everything we can to constrain Bush’s horrible and destructive agendas. If you don’t like what is going on, write your congressman and your senator. Go to rallies and protest. Circulate petitions fighting for what you believe in.
Because if you don’t, no one else will.