Wednesday, November 8, 2006
p.s.
A friend of mine came up to me earlier and said "isn't it a wonderful day?!" Hoping to deflect what I assumed was a reference to the elections, I cheerfully and expectantly asked, "Why? What happened?" She looked surprised and said "We have the House and maybe the Senate!"(using "we" as if any clear thinking person would share the same reactions). I wanted to go to slightly safer territory so I said I was sorry about who won in New York (which I am) since those candidates don't seem to inspire the same crazy emotions as the national ones. So then we had a fairly rational discussion although in the end we agreed that we had to accept that our opinions differ about most of the candidates. As I thought about it, however, I felt sad that we've been so divided in the last few years and puzzled that some perfectly fine people think Bush is a villainous, foolish, dumb lout while other perfectly fine people think he's a principled, decent, intelligent adult. Maybe a good outcome of this election will be some kind of rapprochement since the power of government won't feel one-sided to either side. Maybe now that everyone is in there kicking together, ruffled feathers can calm down and we can again think about ourselves as a whole. You know: fifty united states and three hundred million united Americans.
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