I did not vote

[lizwilliams]

Because I live in England, and can't. At least, I can vote in our own elections, at least for the moment, though who knows how much longer that state of affairs will continue?

However, some encouraging news from across the water and what would almost appear to be an outbreak of sanity. Next, in the backwash of the sanity wave, we will get rid of Blair and elect a PM who really knows what he's doing, who'll set about reconstructing the mess of our foreign policy, who'll put the economy back and track and his name will be - oh. Damn, I knew there was a flaw with my plan.

Comments

[beth-bernobich.livejournal.com]

Sanity first. All the rest should follow. (She says hopefully.)

[greeneyedkzin.livejournal.com]

A lot of these were votes-against -- not to be confused with votes-for if we are to continue on this trend.

My own feeling, and it's a gut feeling, is that parts of the U.S. were literally sick from culture shock dating back from the 1960s. The pendulum swung too far, as they felt, and then it swung too far in the other direction.

Inevitably, there is a revulsion of feeling. It would be nice if people perceived that an acted on it. At this point, I'm moderately content that the pendulum is swinging back toward the center.

[tanngrisnir.livejournal.com]

I would be happy with a PM who would junk the ID bill and its ilk.

Then we could worry about the rest.

[oneirophrenia.livejournal.com]

I've a ridiculous plan to wrest control of the American government via a poorly-thought-out coup involving the release of rapidly-evolving artificial intelligences into the current incarnation of ARPANet, which will grab control of all the nation's nuclear weaponry and put it at my disposal. I will then impose a regime best described as "ultra-liberal fascism", at which point I will gladly invade the British Isles and institute a similar governmental structure in Britain. I already have operatives working in London, so expect the Glorious Revolution to come soon!

(This has been a long-running joke amongst my friends and I. For too long social liberals have been too confused and contradictory to rally properly around a common platform. It is time I impose a platform, then! The Iron Fist of Do-What-Ya-Like has come.)

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

I've been saying that this election would be a referendum on Bush and his ilk for months. People pooh-poohed it. Guess what? Based on exit polling, this election was a referendum on Bush and his ilk.

We've got the House. I hope we can get the Senate. *THEN*, more than anything else, I hope some of our politicians can metamorphose into statesmen.

[kyrialyse.livejournal.com]

I almost leaned off my balcony last night and yelled at the top of my lungs, "Take that, ya fascists!"

but I like to not get lynched, and besides I actually like my neighbor who is in the armed forces and wouldn't want to hurt his feelings :) So I celebrated quietly.

Got DEMON AND THE CITY from the library (sorry, can't buy them all) and very much looking forward to it.