Brendocon wrote:Presuming I didn't misread yesterday, didn't Bush only get about 51% of the popular vote? OK, so technically he won, but it's hardly a landslide.
Just over half of 60% means that about 70% of the electorate didn't vote for him, and about 30% of the electorate voted for somebody else.
Surely no politician can look at that and honestly believe that the populace supports them... can they?
This is the guy who said "I believe God wants me to be President." So, basically, yes.
We're now witnessing one of the lowest points in American history.
EDIT: I need to get this off my chest.
Socrates, the greatest philosopher of all time, said that democracy simply cannot work because the public at large just will not take enough of a vested interest to critically investigate just what they are looking at and the ramifications it holds for them. November 2nd came very close to proving him completely right. The US showed itself to be one of the most gullible and naive nations ever in their willingness to re-elect a man who has repeatedly lied to them and killed innocent people in the name of these lies. There were NO weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Numerous news sources have reported this as fact. The UN reported it as fact. Even top Generals have. Because it is. There wasn't even a connection between Hussein and 9-11. So what happens when the President lies to the American people to make them go to war? Is he hauled in front of Congress for an impeachment trial? Hell no, he gets reelected by the largest margin a republican has enjoyed in a long while.
The ability of the American people to be taken in by this honey-lined piece of garbage continually shocks me. Are people really so inundated by the 'pleasures' of their life that they can't tell when a lie of this magnitude is being told? And to make it worse, this travesty is sugar-coated with the rediculous rhetoric about making Iraq safe for 'freedom'. Good lord, if we plan on bringing 'freedom' to the world, every man and woman of military age had better be drafted damn fast because we are going to be busy with Iran, North Korea, China, Pakistan, and numerous others. And we don't even have the support of the friggin' UN! Of course, a 'war without end' may be ust the thing the administration wants, given that both Cheney and Rumsfeld have talked about a 'new normalcy' which could last at least 'as long as the Cold War' or even longer. I don't know about the rest of you. but a war without end is not something I think we need at the present moment.
I won't even talk about the depressing fact that only 17% of the glorified youth vote managed to show up. It makes me want to harm someone.
In short, this is one of the biggest regressive acts this country has ever faced. We're going backwards, not forwards! I have heard some fellow liberals ask for Clinton to assure us that the Democratic party will rise again. I say- screw that! I want FDR to come on the radio and tell me there is nothing to fear but fear itself, because right now I'm damn near terrified.
