It's so very, very nice to actually feel good the day after Election Day! I didn't get a heck of a lot of work done today, but I'm smiling a lot. I wonder if I'll feel this happy in 2008?
Glenn Greenwald has a lengthy "day after" piece that is worth a read. Here's an excerpt:
The basic mechanics of American democracy, imperfect and defective though they may be, still function. Chronic defeatists and conspiracy theorists -- well-intentioned though they may be -- need to re-evaluate their defeatism and conspiracy theories in light of this rather compelling evidence which undermines them (a refusal to re-evaluate one's beliefs in light of conflicting evidence is a defining attribute of the Bush movement that shouldn't be replicated).Karl Rove isn't all-powerful; today, he is a rejected loser. Republicans don't possess the power to dictate the outcome of elections with secret Diebold software. They can't magically produce Osama bin Laden the day before the election. They don't have the power to snap their fingers and hypnotize zombified Americans by exploiting a New Jersey court ruling on civil unions, or a John Kerry comment, or moronic buzzphrases and slogans designed to hide the truth (Americans heard all about how Democrats would bring their "San Francisco values" and their love of The Terrorists to Washington, and that moved nobody).
All of the hurdles and problems that are unquestionably present and serious -- a dysfunctional and corrupt national media, apathy on the part of Americans, the potent use of propaganda by the Bush administration, voter suppression tactics, gerrymandering and fundraising games -- can all be overcome. They just were.
Indeed.
Now, onward and upward!
Comments (1)
Of course, now the Right Wing is claiming it was because of the liberal media... As if they suddenly had this biased influence they didn't have in 2004. Or 2002. Or 2000... Or 1994.
Posted by seamus | November 10, 2006 5:12 PM