3 November 2004
Overly dramatic?
Moi?
The West Wing has a lot to answer for, y'know? Which would be why, for the second election running, I've sat up most of the night, clutching a pillow and shouting at the TV. Crossing my fingers, toes, and every other bit of me that I can, and feeling increasingly concerned by the rising tide of red numbers.
I've been hoping for a miracle (or at least someone to find half a million democratic votes under a republican mattress in Ohio) all day, but now it seems it's all over.
I've always wanted to live in the US. Ever since I was a little girl. Now I'm glad I don't, and that makes me very sad.
Shit isn't it? I guess there's only another 4 years - trouble is he can create a whole load of trouble in that time...
The US is a really nice place, I promise. Not all of us are so politically unaware.
I appologise in advance for what my country will be doing over the next 4 years.
I lived in the States for a good while. I liked just about all of the Americans I met... decent, groovy people to a one. But as nice as the Americans are, it struck me that they must also be completely insane to live in America. Rampant consumerism has covered the land in shopping malls and plastic, and an orgy of hypercompetitiveness has reduced the culture to an atomised, spectacle-obsessed charade. Spend long in that environment and you start to lose all sense of reality and perspective (for me it was a sudden obsession with TV evangelists and the Y2K bug that made me realise I needed to get out. And quick).
The fact that they've gone and re-elected the moron only goes to prove my "they gotta be mad to live there" theory. Stark raving bonkers.
You know, I could say the same thing about Mrs. Thatcher. But I won't.
The first thing to remember is that our side of the pond is far too large to generalize, even if we like to do it too. Really. You know I've lived there, and while I appreciate the differences between folks from different parts of England, there are (my opinion) much more radical differences between people across the country.
Second, for jim, bear in mind that the good bits of the US tend to be localized while the uglier (ish) parts tend to be the same across the country. See above; there's plenty to like in whatever part of the country you live in, even if you dislike the rest.
Thirdly, remember, only slightly more than half of us are stark raving mad. :)
Mike,
don't get me wrong... the English were clearly bonkers to keep that nasty woman in power for so long. What were they thinking? It's just that Bush seems so *obviously* bad for everyone, so *obviously* not what the world needs right now.
But that might just be my leftie liberal pinko commie European side showing.
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