I need you guys. Right now, I need you guys and I'm not kidding.

[tzikeh]

I originally thought I'd be able to maintain two journals - one for fandom and one for politics, because so often people don't want to see politics on their flists and I don't want to bring people down who come to lj for fun. But for some reason, all having two ljs has done is kept me from making any political posts at all. So, I'm going to delete politzikes, and go back to posting political stuff here, but always with an icon which clearly warns of oncoming politics, and always posting under an lj-cut.


Let me warn in advance that this might be a tad over-emotional because I got my period today and it's a very, very bad period indeed.

W gave a speech in Australia. He couldn't remember what country he was in, he couldn't remember what the speech was for, and once he finished babbling incoherently, he nearly took a header off the stage. A recounting of THIS GODDAMN FUCKING TRAVESTY, with video (if you can stomach it), is here.

Usually, when I use a lot of capital letters and exclamation points and curse words in my lj, it's not me being angry -- it's just me being my usual hyper self; over-excited, or hyperbolic, or waving my arms over my head like Kermit. Not this time.

I can't take it. I seriously can't take it one more day. I am sitting on my couch and weeping in absolutely incoherent rage. I cannot fucking take it one more fucking day. I want to purposefully seek out people who voted for Bush and PUNCH THEM IN THEIR FACES, because they fucking voted for this vile mass of vomit and all of the fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fuck that came with him.

I want to commit violence because this man exists, and because other people like him exist around him, and because 30% of the citizens of this nation still think he's a good president, and because 40% of the citizens of this nation still believe Saddam was behind 9/11, and because my countrymen have had fucking bullshit shoved down their throats for six-and-a-half years, and so many still don't care. And the fact that some people are finally realizing the truths which many of us had been shouting since the beginning does not make up for the fact that they have never given any of us a GODDAMNED FUCKING APOLOGY for calling us traitors and treasonous and "just as bad as them A-rab terrorists."

All we have to show for six-and-a-half years of being hated by racist ignorant fuckheads is the taste of ashes in our mouth and a Pyrrhic, I-told-you-so "victory".

Soothe me or join me in my fury; give me hope or scream in concert with me -- but someone please talk to me.

ETA More from Wonkette here.

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[iko.livejournal.com]

Hehehe. I'm an "old school" Republican (old school meaning quite old school): smaller government, the government has no business in people's private lives (citizens should have a high degree of personal freedom), fiscal conservatism (anyone who thinks our current government is run by fiscal conservatives are deluding themselves, the way that they spend currently is incredible), opportunity support over financial support, etc. It really is old school and I know people give me a bit of a double-take when I identify as a Republican (given that I do not identify as a Democrat).

I didn't vote for Bush and I'm pleased to say that I've written letters in protest to the Republican party against the direction of the party. My parents, die-hard Republicans, couldn't get themselves to vote for Bush because they think he's an idiot (they voted for alternative parties because they couldn't get themselves to vote Democratic, while I'm ok with voting for what I consider the "lesser evil"; I did eagerly vote for Gore though).

I hate the whole hypocritical attitude that this administration has. They want democracy in the middle east but only democracy on their terms. In other words, an election that independent watchers say is fair but with a result that they don't like is Not On and a problem for this administration. It pisses me off to no end.

I want the government out of my bedroom and out of everyone else's bedroom. I want a genuine separation of church and state. (Nothing wrong with having a leader who is religious so long as the tenets of the leader's religion are not being dictated as policy to the rest of the nation.)
I want a government that is not involved in a foreign civil war. We really should not be involved in nation-building unless it is a truly international effort.

Unfortunately, most of this country is not politically aware. Many only care that, at the end of the year, they have more money in their bank accounts. I think most voters are one-issue voters: they have their pet issue and votes for the party that fit that issue, regardless on that person's position in other issues. Thinking about politics these days makes me all very *woe*.