Post-Election Depression Continues

While you may be putting money
in the offering plate, taxes are
also taking a big chunk of your
money and using it on military
hardware. Should you have a
say in all this?

It's one week after the election ....

And I'm still feeling a sense of deep, dark gloom. The United States has chosen the direction it wants to go in the next four years — right over a cliff.

There is no sense of world community, working with the United Nations, getting serious about Mideast peace, healing our environment, or laying the groundwork for a sustainable future.

As usual, the ironies of our country continue to make me crazy. Our president talks about a Culture of Life while he engages in war and death. The moral masses of our country scream out against "perverts" getting married. Now, I find the marriage of Charlton Heston, Kenneth Lay, Pat Robertson, and Jerry Falwell MUCH more perverted than a same sex marriage. The marriage of religious America, corporate America, and gun America is the marriage that should be outlawed!

Now, if you're are a religious conservative, you are probably reading this and laughing SO HARD that you're blowing milk out your nose. Yep, I LOST, and it's no fun to be on the losing side. However, 48 percent of America is on the losing side with me. I find like-minded people everywhere I go, including work, the voting line, and especially in the environmental groups I belong too. We is pissed.

A lot of us are also getting angrier and angrier about this war. I say BRING HOME THE TROOPS TOMORROW! And you are saying, "That would just throw Iraq into turmoil, and then the country would become a breeding ground for terrorism. And then, gosh, some Ayatollah will take over and turn the nation into a religious fundamentalist dictatorship."

Well, that's already happening in the United States, and the same will happen in Iraq — with or without troops and rebuilding funds. So, let's just save a thousand American lives and billions of our tax dollars and end it now. It was all a VERY BAD mistake. Why do we have a Department of Defense and a Secretary of Defense when we are waging offensive war? Everything is twisted and upside down.

Some of us, well at least me, are also getting angry at the continual attempts to intertwine Christianity with the "American Lifestyle." Believe me, this American Lifestyle isn't a good thing. Look at us — most of us are overweight and we pump ourselves up with drugs for anxiety, depression, high blood pressure, obesity, headaches, and the list goes on. Look at our video addict kids — they down four Cokes a day, play video games for nine hours, and then we load them with Ritalin and send them to bed.

Well..

So maybe all of us progressives in this country are just depressed people anyway, and we just needed an excuse to feel glum. Or maybe we are all too smart and over educated. Maybe having an IQ of above 100 and having the ability to think for yourself and question is a curse. Maybe it is more peaceful to go through life in an ignorant bliss and just accept everything the "entrenched institutions" tell you. Maybe it's better to let Fox Network just spoon feed you the applesauce, while you say, "Yum, yum, that's right. We conservatives are under attack by those evil, baby-killing liberals who want to take our religion and guns away from us."

From the song "Jesus of Suburbia" by Green Day:

I'm the son of rage and love
The Jesus of suburbia
From the bible of none of the above
On a steady diet of soda pop and Ritalin
No one ever died for my sins in hell
As far as I can tell
At least the ones I got away with

And there's nothing wrong with me
This is how I'm supposed to be
In a land of make believe
That don't believe in me