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11/5/02 My fellow Americans: What

11/5/02

My fellow Americans:

What the fuck is wrong with you?

It was in tonight's fading hours that I realized the same horror that I had sublimated almost two years ago: it's not the Republicans I can't stand, it's you. Exactly what mass delusion are you suffering from, the one that told you it was okay to let one party take over the White House, both chambers of Congress and the Supreme Court? It's one thing to tolerate a political party that doesn't like black people, that wants to keep women earning 73 cents to a man's dollar, to start an era of coat-hanger abortions, to unilaterally attack any country full of brown people that they want, and to fuck up the environment so bad that my grandkids will have to wear 450 SPF sunscreen just to go play on a jungle gym it's quite another to put them in control of OUR ENTIRE FUCKING COUNTRY.

Don't you get it? Fox News is entertainment, not reality - they don't even believe the things they say on there. Why are you filled with so much fear? Are you afraid black men might have sex with your daughters, or some Chinese guy is going to take your job? And you women: how can you possibly be so self-loathing as to vote Republican? Do you suffer from some kind of codependence that lets you get off on being ignored and marginalized?

My fellow Americans, your vote tonight is going to convince the chowder-headed hawks in the White House that they have a clear mandate to bomb the shit out of Iraq and judging from how stupid you are, they do. Not one single person outside of America wants this war, and you have no idea how badly. The rest of the world yearns, screams, howls for change in the way we behave; they clamor for compassion, they plead for us to stop destroying the environment, they chant for us to stop propping up corrupt regimes so we can siphon off their oil – and you just stood up tonight and gave them the finger. At a crucial juncture in world history, when so much could change for the better, you just threw us back to the goddamn 1950s. I hope you're happy.

I used to love travelling around this country, to meet as many new people as I could, understand their lives and make friends in as many time zones as possible. I'd still like to meet some of you, but the rest of you can fuck off after tonight. Minnesota? It shouldn't have been close. Shame on you. And Florida, are you fucking joking?

This is a picture of my hand voting today:

As you can see, none of my candidates won tonight. I assume, as the years wear on, and you get stupider and stupider, that the mere act of my even showing up at a voting booth will become utterly irrelevant. Perhaps the day will come when you get so destructively moronic that I'll stop voting entirely and move away, some place where people treat each other and the world better. For now, I have to labor on, with the sisyphean delusion that I can still make a difference, and this country is worth saving from you. Right now, it's hard to see why.