Wheee Now that the election is pretty much over, it's time to find a mirror and reflect. This was the first presidential election I payed any attention to, and I pray that it's the last, too. With any luck, maybe the government will collapse into some kind of non-president-electing system before 2008, or there'll be a special room in every building where I can go and hear absolutely nothing about the election. We learned that the country is polarized. In an election with two serious choices, where voters could only choose one, and not both, almost everyone chose one of the two choices. That's real polarization. Heck, if you look at an electoral map, you'll see that of the 51 state-like entities, all of them had majorities for either Bush or Kerry. That's huge polarization! In the name of discourse, observers came forward and found everything bad about one candidate and everything good about the other that they could find. And then accused other observers who were finding everything bad about the other of doing exactly the same thing. Or something. posted by Beetle Aurora Drake 1/06/2005 03:34:00 PM # Comments (0) . . .
