So I've been told it is odd that I have not had anything to say here about the election. I guess the reason for that is that I don't quite understand how this country is quite so divided. I stayed up the night of the election, and I watched the results coming up. And it seemed so odd. After all, despite the great big swaths of red that coated the map, the actual results were rather close. Approx. 51% to 49%. Which, of course, reminds me of a quote by Thomas Jefferson "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."
And never have I felt this way more then I do right now. I am living in a country where some of people hate so much that they are willing to put that hate into state and possibly the national constitution. I see this country divided in so many ways, and I don't think I fully understand why. Why does my view seem so logical to me, and their's so logical to them? Especially since we often have exactly opposite view points?
While I tend to be "blue", as are a lot of my friends, this year I voted red in a lot of my elections. Do others do this? Do they look at the people running for office, or do they just see the world in red and blue, and run with their party?
I guess I just worry that in all the mud slinging, in all the rhetoric, we might have lost sight of what the election is all about: Getting a group of people together to lead this country and represent us to the world. Instead, we squabble, we fight, and in the end, are we really representing everyone? And if the answer is no, we should sit down, and really think about why.
The election is over, and Dubya is back for 4 more years. Here's to the prospect of a stronger economy, an end to war in Iraq, and the hope that the Supreme Court will continue to protect our rights to the best of it's ability (and to the hope that Scalia doesn't become Chief Justice...)