So John and John have conceded, and Dudya and Dick go on for a second term. I listened with some attention to Senator Kerry's concession speech. I do hope that the politicians may have learned that America's people are not necessarily enamoured of some of their intended social engineering. Same sex unions may be many things but they are not marriages. Abortion is the deliberate killing of a new life.
Hopefully the Bush victory, an historic one at that, will not give the neo-cons unrestrained license to go further than they already have. The so-called war on terror appears all to often to be a shield for the fast erosion of civil liberties so hard won over a very long period of time. And a perfect cover for a wide range of large corporations to make even more money, on security systems, surveillance equipment and the like which as often as not will not make you or us any safer but will, perhaps, one day bear fruit none of us want.
One worry I also have is the monies spent on both sides. In a supposedly egalitarian society it is odd that only the super rich may achieve such high office. Is it today truly government of the people, for the people, but the people?
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