it's time to turn the clocks back one hour tonight. This hardly seems necessary considering the number of American voters who on Tuesday turned the clock back to January, 2000.
Deregulaion, lower environmental standards, higher medical expenses, increased military spending, unrestricted campaign donations, tax breaks for the rich . . . .
Maybe we should start another unwinnable war, just to make the leap backward complete.
The extra hour of bar time tonight is going to come in handy. The rich who are about to get richer again can continue celebrating a little longer. The rest of us can start numbing ourselves for the darker days ahead.
Skoal!
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I know it seems bad at the moment, but my hope(?) can still be kept alive by thinking about things like this: in my state the incumbent democratic governor lost by only 2 percentage pts. 52% of registered voters didn't vote. That means the winner was backed by less than a quarter of the registered voters who voted; hardly a mandate for anything. And these statistics have as a backdrop the fact that the overwhelming majority of eligible voters are so cynical or apathetic they thumb their nose at the whole charade. Grim yes. But the democrats could conceivably look for ways to mine the abundant cynicism.
Elections can definitely be deceiving. In Alaska, a huge number of Democrats voted for a Republican senator as the only way to keep fascist scumbag Joe Miller out of office.
Still, if anyone's looking for cynicism to mine, I'm the motherlode.
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