The polls look bad for our side. This is true. Maybe all polls are crap. Maybe the samples are all screwed up. Maybe polls haven't meant anything this year at all.
However, if they are correct, we better be ready for that. If Kerry loses, and I sure hope he doesn't, but if he does, we'll all have two choices.
1.) Basically give up. Retreat in defeat and splinter into a thousand fringe movements, each with its own agenda. Move out of the country at our nearest convenience and abandon morons to their moron leaders and the consequences of their actions.
2.) Continue fighting the Rethug agenda in every possible way. This may take some creative thinking on our parts. We might have to start running for local offices. Who knows exactly what our strategy will have to be? But we'll definitely have to fight.
If we choose the first option then our worse predictions may indeed come to pass.
If we choose the second option, maybe we can soften the blow of this administration winning a second term. I hate fighting for everything. It's an exhausting way of life. But if we value anything about our country, we'll have to keep fighting - each in our own way.
There's a constant battle going on inside me between the pessimistic and optimistic side. This site, as informative and interesting as it often is, tends to stack the odds against my optimism. Sometimes when I come here and browse the diaries I start feeling like lying down in the gutter, fleeing the country or starting a militia movement.
This probably isn't very healthy or productive. Will Kerry win? I certainly hope so. That will do more to restore my faith in America than anything else. To that end, I will definitely be volunteering in Arizona when I get back. However, if the unthinkable happens, we'll have to keep pressuring the Chimp and his cronies so they can't ram through their agenda without a fight. There's no way we can do that if we let them crush our spirits under the immense weight of their many injustices.
If we value America at all, we'll have to take stock, gather the pieces of our shattered hopes, and immediately start fighting against the agenda of the second term - particularly SCOTUS appointments.