Reply #5: It felt like a recurring nightmare, surreal and agonizing and real.

[American Tragedy]

When I woke up in the morning, I could hear CNN blaring down the hall. I faintly heard them state that Kerry was poised to concede, an announcement for which I was not at all prepared.

It felt like a sledgehammer struck me between my shouldblades. I was paralyzed. For the rest of the day I was curled up on the sofa in my bathrobe, every television deliberately turned off. After that, I told friends and family that this was the end of all hope, and I said that I was finished with American politics.

But before the week was over, I realized that my heart was permanently invested in this thing. I would never be able to escape the truth by drowning myself in apathy ever again.

Now, I am more determined than ever to kick the Republicans, their backers, and the media in the fuckin teeth for all of this. I am ready to watch the Republicans implode, take our party back from the current establishment, and systematically destroy the radical right wing!

And if indeed we are doomed to failure by an irrevocably crooked system, I would rather go down fighting, with our self-respect intact, and stand on the righteous side of the history yet to be written. Let's go get those Bush bastards!