Hate and Discontent in America?
Ok – maybe I lied about getting away from politics.
I got myself trapped into reading the right-wing-whack-job blogs today. It’s kind of fun in the fact that it’s an exact reversal of 2000. It’s kind of not fun in that our country, which I love, is still horribly fractured.
In 2000 after the Supreme Court ended the recount in Florida, effectively giving Bush the presidency, the ardent bush supporters said that democrats should “Get over it” and finally said that everyone should do the “American” thing and support then president-elect Bush.
The amazing part is, pretty much universally these are the same people who are saying that Obama will never be their president.
By their own argument that would make them quite Un-American. Why doesn’t any of the far-right commentators they are blubbering to point that out to them?
We all live in America. We all live by the Constitution of the United States. And that document states that the person who wins the election by virtue of a majority of votes in the Electoral college *IS* the President of the United states.
All of them. Not just the ones he won. Not just the counties. All of them.
Barack Obama not only won he won decisively. Winning 8 states previously carried by Bush, and with a decisive popular vote tally as well. He won the country. Of this there can be no doubt.
Get behind your new president. He’s going to be around a while. Or get used to years of being referred to as the Un-American ones with no love for your country or it’s rule of law.
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Dontcha just love the double standards? People in this country still continue to amaze me, and not in a good way.
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I really haven’t read any gloom and doom posts today, but I have heard people referencing them. I would love to know what people are so afraid of. Feel free to drop me an email or leave a comment on my site with some links to the posts you are talking about.
You make some really good points, btw. I was in the other camp in the last two elections. It was so frustrating to see Gore win the popular vote in 2000 but I still supported Bush and hoped for the best. At least this time, there is no question who the winner is.
Last night online, there were two friends who were upset and disappointed, to say the least. All it took was three of us talking to one of them, crowding around – as much as is possible online – and stating the positives. That the world is watching and smiling, that people are being brought together in America for something that doesn’t involve mass death and murder. That it takes eons for change to actually happen, but that now, people have hope for change, whereas before they seemed to hope things didn’t get worse.
And within about three minutes, this friend was joking and laughing with us. That’s, I think, all everyone needs – the positive, not the arguements.