So, “we” lost. Not that surprising, given the closeness and some apparent holes in the Kerry campaign. I’ve been thinking these past couple of days about what my final analysis of the election would be. I kind of came to the realization that I didn’t have one. I realized that for all the analysis, all the debating, all the muckraking, and everything else that people do, there is no “truth” in politics. There is no definitive issue that will give a candidate the edge, there is no united country. Not anymore, not ever. I think we’d all do well to realize this. I think we’d also do well to realize that using this obvious separation to throw stones is in our absolute worst interest. What divides people more than pointing out there division? I don’t know.
Sorry, nothing profound from me. I’m disappointed, yeah, but not in the outcome. I’m disappointed in all of us for making it so polarized, so profoundly awkward, and amazingly irrelevant in terms of the problems that actually threaten “our ways of life”. I’m disappointed that 51% of America thinks that a liar would be better than a not-yet-liar, but that’s the way it goes.
This is late, because I moved into a new apartment and because I just can’t quite care yet.
justinª