Why I am depressed about the election.

The elections are over and the beginning of the end has arrived for George W. Bush or has it? Don't get me wrong, nothing makes me happier than watching that slimy creep squirm as a good dose of reality is delivered to his doorstep - it's about time, it's only taken 6 years and 650,000 dead in Iraq for people to finally see what a murderous little brat he is.

As comforting as this idea is, it is unfortunately not true. 50% of the country is still willing to vote for warmongering, socially conservative candidates. The one victory which the Dems toasted more than the others was claiming the scalp of Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania. This guy was offensive to just about everybody to the left of Hitler but Bob Casey, the guy the Dems replaced him with is an anti-woman's rights and anti-Gay rights. What is really scary is that, in order to defeat Hitler you must offer Mussolini as your candidate.

There are still some reasonable people in the Democratic party, but just like their counterparts in the Labour Party in the UK, they will marginalized so that the right-wing agenda is their selling credentials for the 2008 election. This is another thing that worries me, if the Democrats have to move right in order to get elected then how far right will the Republican Party go in order to appear different? I thought Bush was as bad as it gets, but if you follow this logic then I would not be surprised to see it get worse.

I'm trying hard not make this post sound too depressing - so I will say that the one thing I have found heartening about this election is that people are willing to forget party lines and consider voting with the opposition (even if the opposition is a watered down version of the government). If this trend continues we will perhaps have a group of people who are willing to forget about the big two parties and vote for a party that might actually change things instead of continuing the status quo. Wether that party is the Green Party or the Nazi party is the fight that we have to look to now. I still vote in the UK, not the USA, but I can easily say now that I will never vote for any of the big 2 parties ever again. I voted for Tony Blair because I was sick of Thatcher/Major and look where that got me.