The morning after...

[purpletigron]

So, has the world just become a scarier place?

Please use this journal entry to help me interpret the USA mid-term results...

Comments

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Dunno yet. At least, the Senate race here is still too close to call, and everybody who's not busy either counting ballots, watching over people counting ballots, or reporting on people watching over people counting ballots is going to bed. Ask me again in the morning?

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

I look forward to sharing your insights :-)

[elisem.livejournal.com]

This might be an
apt summary of what happened in Minnesota. The rest of the country looks similarly depressing. But I did like what Julie Sabo said about not giving up, and I hope to hear more from her.

It's democracy in action

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Note: the following contains your RDA of sarcasm and irony; children, pregnant women and all other human beings may need additional cynicism :-)

For years the US media have told the world that the US has the greatest system of government, free elections and democracy. This is the same media (and government) that somehow turned an attack on people and buildings and American foreign policy into an attack on that self same "democracy".

Now you get to reap the rewards. In free elections, the people of the US have picked the Republicans to run the US, and as the US has so much power worldwide, effectively to impose a republican charter on the rest of the world.

Of course, being good citizens and followers of the principles of democracy you're going to have to accept that the majority vote binds you to this policy ... (for extra credit, use the words "petard" and "hoist" in a sentence)

The rest of the world, being socialist and communist and otherwise "less democratic" doesn't have to accept that Republican charter. (extra credit: use the words "yah", "boo" and "sucks" in a carefully worded international reply).

Democracy is a system which gives the voting majority the right to run things, basically regardless of the wishes of everyone else. The UN has a "democratic" voting system to determine what is best for the world. The US is part of the UN. If the UN votes against a war in Iraq then the US (being a true and good citizen of the world/UN) will of course bow to the wishes of the majority.

Of course, if the US decides to push ahead regardless of a democratic vote, then I think the Republicans will have effectively declared "democracy" an outmoded and pointless construct, and you can then ignore the results of this mid-term election.

There, has that clarified things for you? <sad shake of head>

[redbird]

Where can I run to?

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Canada?

You're welcome here, of course, but we're heading closer to the 51st state every day...

And just when I get asked to apply for a job in the US

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Yes. And the scariest part is not the Senate in and of itself even, but the courts.

Sorry. :-(

-J

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I thought.

:-(

[(Anonymous)]

The candle of freedom has flickered and gone out. Tomorrow the American conquest of the world begins.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

...and I thought I was being paranoid...

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you