bzarcher | (no subject)

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.