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[bzarcher]

This is going to be political. I will try to keep it the only comment I make politically for a bit, and I apologize even as I say it.



This is not directed at 80% of the people who read this or whose journals I read. However, after seeing and hearing a repeated theme, I feel I need to comment.

That theme?

This is all Ohio's fault.

Fuck. You.

In case you somehow missed it, there were 250 OTHER electoral votes involved. I voted my conscience, and I am not pleased with the result of the general election, but no one state or group deserves the 'fault' or the 'blame.' A lot of other people voted against what you wanted, and if you haven't noticed the final maps, that included about 75% of the relevant continental landmass.

I've only been hearing it for a day and I'm already tired of it, and I'm starting to sympathize with people in Florida about the last go round. It's one thing to joke about it personally, especially with people close to me. It's quite another to get it hatefully spat in my face by people who have no idea who they are stereotyping.

While on that train of thought: Friends in Florida - I'm sorry for anything I said back in 2000. You didn't deserve it, either.

What do we do now? Rebuild. Do as best as you can. Keep your heads up, march for what you believe in, and fight for what we want. Stop blaming others and work on what we can change.

I've been as guilty of it as anyone else, in the past. I will do my best to try and listen to my own advice. Ask for help and I will try to give it.

Good things can and will probably come out of this to go with the bad. We just need to try and make the former outnumber the latter.

Comments

[evilstoryteller.livejournal.com]

Yep. Spot on.
It's not any state's fault.

All we can do is become more pro-active, and get as many other people as we can to follow suit, willingly. ;)

Don't let the weenies get to ya too much, though. Anybody that's blaming Ohio for this result just hasn't bothered to actually sit down and look at the larger picture.

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

I found this map to be very interesting.

It's not Ohio's fault, it's not Florida's fault. There's no fautl - it is the way that it is, and we have to survive and work to change it. Maybe.

[parasaurolophus.livejournal.com]

Bah, I wanted everything to be Florida's fault again. ;)

[snowspinner.livejournal.com]

I blame Montana.

Fucking Montana.

[timroff.livejournal.com]

That's right!
If it weren't for Mon-fucking-tana, Lynne would have never met Dick-fucking-Cheney, the lesbian daughter would have never been born, Dick wouldn't have been pres of Halliburton, and Iraq war wouldn't have ever happened.

[flying-landon.livejournal.com]

Very well.

It's all YOUR fault. Yes, YOU! CURSE YOU, DEMON SPAWN!


In all seriousness, it's Kerry's fault. He had a chance to show himself to the rural people in my state and surrounding states, and he did not. Not at all. Bush did, Bush carried the whole damned south because of it.

Kerry's lesson of the year? Don't take people for granted.

[spiralpegasus.livejournal.com]

Its not Ohio's fault. It's certain parts of Ohio.

When the half north of I-70 finally has had enough and tosses away Mississippi-on-the-Ohio to whoever wants it, we'll make sure to bring Columbus and Dayton along. ;)

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Hey! I'd note that we're (mostly) above I-70 here, too. :D Kinda bifuricated, really.

[timroff.livejournal.com]

Isn't I-70 the new Mason-Dixon line?

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Some ways? But the southern part of Ohio's always been a bit.....dixie-fried?

[avylin.livejournal.com]

I can't say I'm overly fond of Ohio (Cleveland beat Seattle in some baseball game some years ago and I've been iffy about the entire state since), but you're right. Blaming the entire state for the election is stupid.

However, if folks want to hate Idaho, that's fine with me. Idaho sucks.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Besides, potatoes grown at my math prof's farm up in Wooster taste better.

[alathaniel.livejournal.com]

I hold the press responsible for creating a perception that it was Ohio that decided the race. Including certain fringe elements for perpetuating the myth that rigged election machines were somehow involved. And for acting like the popular vote is somehow more meaningfull than electoral votes in blatant ignorance of how the system works.

I'm also hoping that the Republican party figures out it's better off without being run (subverted?) by bible-thumping evangelicals. But we can table that for another day.

[pianorockmelody.livejournal.com]

*applaudes*

Nicely said.

[robyscots.livejournal.com]

I think that we should blame the pixies, its all their fault. If the pixies didn't insist on causing trouble, everything would be fine:)

But seriously, I repeat everyone else's comments that its no one state's fault. It just happened. Yes it is upsetting, but we have to work with it and do the best we can. On the other hand, we could all break away and form our own little country and call it Rebel's Island.