I have isolated myself today. I stayed home from work and cried as John Edwards and John Kerry conceded defeat. I am stunned and hurt. I am curious about these millions who voted for Bush.
I am in the minority.
That surprises me. I believe that our president has led a war of folly, has wrecked our finances, has given away our treasure to the rich, has brazenly spilt us over the right to choose what happens to our bodies, the right to love and marry, has ruined our responsibility to be respected.
I have sobbed today, and shed real tears, and stomped around my apartment in despair.
Let me make it clear: John Kerry was my candidate. He spoke for me. He stood up to the President and spoke the truth, again and again. He said everything that hadn’t been said in this country as we rushed to war and squandered our world leadership.
I’ve got to write about the fact that I am Catholic, and swipe away swaths of Catholic doctrine daily, and did it gladly as I voted yesterday, and apparently millions of other people did not do like me. Why? On both ends why?