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Originally Posted by wolf
Has everybody vented their drama yet?
Let it go, and get on with your lives.
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Nope. I've got about four more years of drama left, or at least as long as it'll be legal to vent it.
My primary political party is now marginalized to a point that won't be recoverable for decades, if ever. There is no reason for the Republicans to even pretend to work towards bipartisanism; the likes of DeLay will use this mandate as a bludgeon to do what they want, how they want, when they want, with Senatorial filibusters remaining the Democrats' last-ditch and rarely-used method of delaying the inevitable. Not preventing; delaying.
More wars. More dead bodies. More tax cuts. Higher deficits. More faith-based programs and rhetoric. More redistricting follies. More input from the religious right. More frontal assaults on social and economic programs. More ultraconservative judges on the Supreme Court. More Ashcroft. More pressure on the remaining Democrats to cave in and simply give the Republicans everything they want.
THAT'S what yesterday's election endorsed; it was anything but a simple choice of one leader versus another. The Democratic Party wasn't defeated, it was fucking slaughtered across the board, apart from the mercy killing of Alan Keyes. The Democrats had been reduced to a whimper _before_ this last stand, and the evangelicals came out to ensure that not only would it stay that way, but that the country'd be FURTHER tilted in the God, Guns and Anti-Gay direction.
The Religious Right is at the controls in ways they never managed even during the Reagan administration. The Constitution Restoration Act (which would remove the Supreme and federal courts' jurisdiction over any Establishment Clause issues)? It's coming. We barely dodged it the last time. There is an absolutely _desperate_ need for the remaining Democrats to block as many judicial appointments as possible now, and it's simply (IMHO) not going to happen.
So yeah, I _am_ fucking angry and nervous and scared and needing to vent. The two-party political system I've grown up knowing is over now; now it's a 900-pound gorilla dictating terms to its token opposition and to the world at large. If you're seriously suggesting that I should "get over it" before the corpse is even cold, you can go screw yourself.