I don't get it. I honestly don't understand. How can so many people think he's doing a good job? How can so many people not care that their civil liberties have been slashed in the false name of security? How can so many not care about women's reproductive rights? How can so many ignore the environmental rollbacks? How can they not see that we have lost what little respect we had in the international community?
How did we fail? What should we have done to make more of those red states blue? Everyone I talked to, so much that I read, all agreed that he had to go. Anyone but Bush was a given. How could all that passion not matter for anything?
What do we do now? How can we make the best of this horrible situation? What can we do, as individuals, to ensure that we don't slip back even more? How can we hold on to the bits (right to choose, the civil liberties, environmental protections) that are still intact?
A lot can happen in four years. I'm scared. And I'm sad. So very, very sad.
