I am so sad. I half feel like crying, half feel like throwing up. I really fear for this country, and the direction it is headed in. This president is going to appoint at least one, maybe three, new Supreme Court Justices. That’s just scary. What are the next four years going to be like? More of the same? More intolerance and disregard for civil liberties? More disregard for the environment and irresponsible environmental policy? Bigger deficits, which will burden us for decades and decades to come? No responsible policy in Iraq? I really hope that Bush looks around and sees that some of his policies are just not working, and are really unsafe for and harmful for the future of this country.

I just can’t believe he won, that so many people voted for him. Are they not looking around? I know that there are some people who genuinely believe in Republican principles (although, hey, I thought Republicans were supposed to be against big deficits and big government and nation building….?), but it’s just hard for me to see so many people who seem to be blind to the injustice of this administration’s policies. I guess there are too many people out there who make a lot of money and don’t see why they need to give the government any money to help the people around them who don’t have access to the same opportunities as they do; or stay in their comfortable bubble of mommy and daddy’s money and don’t want to give just a little bit of that up to help their fellow citizens; or would rather be content knowing that the president is a good Christian that take the effort to read or get informed about the awful consequences of this administration’s policies; or are so blinded by the president’s faith and good ol’ boy charm that they don’t look at his policies.

Did you know that under this president we have the biggest deficit we’ve ever had in the history of this country? Did you know that under this president, the income disparity in this country has grown and grown? How can we be content knowing that as the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer (or, as the whites and Asians are getting richer, the blacks and Hispanics are getting poorer)? Somehow, those in middle rural America have been hoodwinked—people are living poor and voting rich.

I’m so disappointed right now. I’ll give the president the benefit of the doubt, but I have a nagging suspicion it’s going to be four more years of the same. I guess for some people that’s good—they can keep getting richer, keep feeling safer while young men continue to die in a war that has no end in sight, have no sadness over the fact that the rest of the world thinks we’re arrogant and insensitive to other cultures, and be content trying to make this a Christian nation through oppression, condemnation and fear—forget about love, compassion or grace.

Our country can do so much better, and we’re settling for the status quo. It sucks big time

Does anyone have any information about good grad programs abroad? I am seriously considering leaving this country. Reason, common sense and compassion seem to have left the building. But, as always—God Bless the USA. We’re gonna need it.