Okay, then...
Nov. 3rd, 2004 11:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandolinFirst off, I'm mentioning the election. Sorry, all.
Second off, I do not feel the need to rant. I voted for Kerry, Bush won, but I'm not in the mood to scream. I can understand some people's desire to rant, but I don't share it for once.
At the risk of sounding pessimistic, I kind of saw it coming. I'm disappointed, a bit depressed, but not surprised. And not very angry, truth to tell. Don't confuse this with apathy - instead of getting angry, I feel the need to think things over. (And update my resume. Just in case.)
I am not going to pack my bags and move to Canada, for a couple of reasons. For one thing, I can't just dump graduate school and try to start all over again. Not to mention the fact that I have very few connections up there, if at all. It's not practical. Won't do me any good, either. Even if Bush somehow manages to reinstate the draft, there's no way I'd be drafted. (Seriously. I'm not in bad shape - I have low cholesterol, work out regularly and eat right - but I'm blind in one eye, which shoots depth perception to hell, and have documented shoulder problems. By the time they got desperate enough to consider me, I'd be too old.) I'd be amazed if he got away with reinstating the draft, too.
And it also occurs to me that if everyone who was dismayed at this election, everyone who had the means and initiative to pack up and move to another country, not to mention the skills necessary to get enough points for citizenship left the country... well, wouldn't that be counter-productive?
I'm still here, the world is not ending, and maybe we'll survive the next four years. In the meantime, vote, write your representatives, find out as much as you can about the issues from both sides, and speak out when you can. Everyone still does have a voice, you just have to work at it to make it be heard and understood.
I'm going to lunch.
Second off, I do not feel the need to rant. I voted for Kerry, Bush won, but I'm not in the mood to scream. I can understand some people's desire to rant, but I don't share it for once.
At the risk of sounding pessimistic, I kind of saw it coming. I'm disappointed, a bit depressed, but not surprised. And not very angry, truth to tell. Don't confuse this with apathy - instead of getting angry, I feel the need to think things over. (And update my resume. Just in case.)
I am not going to pack my bags and move to Canada, for a couple of reasons. For one thing, I can't just dump graduate school and try to start all over again. Not to mention the fact that I have very few connections up there, if at all. It's not practical. Won't do me any good, either. Even if Bush somehow manages to reinstate the draft, there's no way I'd be drafted. (Seriously. I'm not in bad shape - I have low cholesterol, work out regularly and eat right - but I'm blind in one eye, which shoots depth perception to hell, and have documented shoulder problems. By the time they got desperate enough to consider me, I'd be too old.) I'd be amazed if he got away with reinstating the draft, too.
And it also occurs to me that if everyone who was dismayed at this election, everyone who had the means and initiative to pack up and move to another country, not to mention the skills necessary to get enough points for citizenship left the country... well, wouldn't that be counter-productive?
I'm still here, the world is not ending, and maybe we'll survive the next four years. In the meantime, vote, write your representatives, find out as much as you can about the issues from both sides, and speak out when you can. Everyone still does have a voice, you just have to work at it to make it be heard and understood.
I'm going to lunch.
