i spent the day yesterday canvassing outer se portland with acorn. walking around in the rain and cold i kept telling myself that this is what democracy feels like, a lot of work. i did a pretty good job of avoiding the tv until about 11pm. what i saw didn't look good.
kerry's concession this morning has me wondering what's going to happen. i hope that when all the second guessing is done people come to the realization that it was a fucking close election. there wasn't a blowout for either side, the republicans just squeaked by. they did a better job of getting out the vote than most people expected and it paid off.
that said, in the last year and a half the left has built up an amazing set of activist groups. i really, truly hope that we can keep the infrastructure in place to fight back in the house and senate races in 2006. the republicans are going to have FULL control of the government for at least that long and bush's probably going to get to pick two supreme court justices. we're going to have to fight like hell to slow down the destruction of this country.
back in 2000 i thought to myself "how bad can it be?" well this time i've got an idea. quite a few of my friends want to stick their heads in the sand and pretend that it won't affect them. i wish i could believe that. it's going to be a rough couple of years.
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