I’m pretty down about the results of the election yesterday, but I’ve decided the Lunchroom here isn’t going to become the bitter-angry-disenfranchised-liberal-guy blog and I’m not going to continue to rant and rave against the administration the way I did leading up to the election. I think there’s better things I can do offline to effect change than to bluster here in what is basically preaching to the choir. So I’m closing the lid on the festering corpse of Election ’04 and moving on and I won’t mention it again. (Probably. Maybe.)

But as Beth pointed out to me recently, I do like having the last word. So here’s my last word on the subject — and the words aren’t even mine, they’re something I clipped off Usenet. But, boy, do they capture my thoughts well:

The American people have spoken, this November 2nd, and here’s what they had to say:

1. We hate fags.
2. We don’t care who bombed us, as long as we have an excuse to kick some
foreign ass.
3. We don’t care how many people have to die kicking that ass, as long as rich
corporations get fat rebuilding contracts to make them richer.
4. We don’t care about our civil rights. When Patrick Henry said “Give me
Liberty or Give me Death, he had it all ass-backwards.
5. We want people who aren’t rich enough to afford top of the line health
care to suffer and die, no matter how hard they work.
6. We want to force those people to have babies who will also suffer and die.
7. We hate muslims.
8. We hate intellectuals.
9. We hate lawyers, especially ones who defend the poor or the weak.
10. We believe anyone who is not a Christian is going to Hell.
11. We believe that cannot happen soon enough.
12. We believe our leader rules by Divine Right and is answerable to no one
but God.
13. We hate women, unless they are barefoot and pregnant and follow their man’s orders like a dutiful wife.
14. We believe you can go to war on, and physically kill, ideas.
15. We believe even when our leaders lie to us, and even when they do it
because it is in their interest and not ours to do so, that it is some kind of
“accident” and not a mistake or deception.
16. We believe that even when our leaders lie to us, we should pretend what
they are saying is true.
17. We believe the rich should get richer, the poor should stay poor, and
everyone in between should pick a side.
18. We believe that this is a Christian nation. If you want to believe
something else, we’ll humor you, but you should know that the truth is that
there is one true Christian God running the show.
19. We believe things are going great, despite all evidence to the contrary.
20. We will continue to believe this to the bitter end.

Now go donate some money to the Love Ride. Because, you know, they hate charity of any kind, so this is one more way to be the better person.