I’m sorry.

Sorry for the state of affairs in the “Good Ol’ USofA” as was evidenced by our election results yesterday.

Sorry that we, as a country that is held up time and time again by our leaders as a model of democracy and success, the global melting pot, the frontrunner in personal freedoms and opportunity, sorry that we are so divided.

Sorry that, due to that division, we have just extended the term (the so-called “mandate”) of our President.

Sorry that our election turned on “Guns, Gays, and God”, instead of the more important socio-economic issues that should be on the top of the agenda.

Sorry that the Democrats can’t get it together enough to field a candidate that would have given the American people a real choice, rather than the (perceived) same type of “Northeast liberal candidate” that provides easy fodder for the GOP machine.

Sorry that 51% of the population of this country doesn’t see what the rest of us see (here in the US, and in the rest of the world) - that our current leadership is a scam, that corporate interests rule the White House, that religous zealotry and unbending opposition to reason masquerade as “faith”, that we really could/should do better.

Sorry that I’m going to have to sit here for the next four years, cringing at every revokation of freedom, every mis-guided fiscal decision, every gaffe and US-centric comment that comes out of our leader’s mouth to further piss off and alienate the rest of the world.

Sorry that I can’t better explain this - to myself, to my friends, to the rest of the people on this planet who keep asking “Why? What were you thinking?”

I’m sorry. Seems that 51% of this country just doesn’t really think.

Links to other like-minded people:
Wil Wheaton
Joshua Micah Marshall

Categories: World