Bush wins

It’s 11:41. After reading through the CNN stats on the precincts in Ohio, I predict Bush wins Ohio, meaning Bush wins.

It’s not a failure by us. We’ve been waging a war against this doctrine for years, it feels. Certainly the better part of my adult life.

It’s a failure to examine, however,
the intricacies of not standing up for what is right
when every opportunity was presented to do that.
100,000 civilians are lying in mass graves in Iraq.
and what do we supposedly endorse? a man who will make that number grow.
1,000 soldiers, 1,000 American mothers, mourning.
and what do we supposedly endorse? a framework to push that number higher

I don’t buy the bullshit
that this endorsement for Nader ever makes me a traitor.
I love how progressives think that their abundant use of labels is somehow justifiable.
I love how rooms full of supposedly educated and intelligent people can be on the same fucking mental menstrual cycle.

I love how I have no power to change this, as an individual, and yet I am individually blamed for its failure.
I love how what I think matters doesn’t, and what I think corrupts does.
And I love how we can worship the system but not the candidates that best articulate it.

oh, a lament of our times, oh yes. But something much greater:
A lament that my experience here tonight, under this canopy of defeat,
makes me wish I didn’t have to experience it at all.
which defeats the purpose of the experience alltogether.