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[kelly_chambliss]

Everyone should go read Seema's open letter to America. I'm impressed by its thoughtfulness, eloquence, and moderation.  I agree with it (well, maybe not with the "rationalization" part), but I could not have written anything like it.  I'm so devastated and hopeless and furious that I can't be rational about the the Bush election yet, if ever.  (No, Kerry would not have been a panacea; he's a rich, conservative white man himself.  But he's bright and reasonable and progressive; at least he had the potential to restore America.)

I'm in melodramatic mode, I know, but I see nothing facing us in the next four years but a fascist military-police state run by a self-righteous bigot of borderline intelligence who thinks he's been chosen by God, and I can't stand it.  Yeah, I'm being self-righteous myself, but at least I don't want to make other people live their lives the way I say they should.   I just want a country that will allow people to live as they see fit.   I used to think that's what America was about.  I feel like an idiot -- what a naive fool I've been, believing that my beloved country actually stood for religious and personal freedom, independence, tolerance, liberty and justice for all.   It terrifies me that so many of my fellow-citizens -- over 55 million of them, most of them good, well-meaning people -- apparently prefer some other America entirely.

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[seemag.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your lovely comments, Kelly, much appreciated. I'm just as in despair as you are, I cannot even begin to express my utter sadness. Maybe it says everything when my French professor yesterday just gave me a hug instead of her usual, "Bonjour, Seema!" She was just as overwhelmed as I was.

I've realized that when all is said and done, I'll have spent about 30 percent of my life under Bush rule of one kind of another (I'm not counting le pere, because while I didn't agree with his politics, I always respected the man). I am so unbelievably pessimistic about the next four years. In 2008, we're just going to have to work all that much harder to get our country back from this right-wing religious agenda.