Was just thinking about some stuff as I was in the bathroom doing my morning business... you know, you know? Had some really nice comforting thoughts easing my mind about contemporary issues facing our troubled nation and I thought that I'd share them with all of you.
I'm one of the younger people here, so I'm pretty sure I speak for most everyone when I say that my parents were alive and growing up in the 60s, when Brokeback Mountain takes place. In fact, I'm sure there is a nice number of people here at Chez Tremblay that were alive during this period of time. So... essentially... in the course of one lifetime, we have moved something from being a social stigma that one is beaten with a tire iron for all the way to being something that is accepted by 49% of our society.
Forty-nine percent, people. That is
this close ---> || <--- from a majority vote!
And with the way things look right now... within my lifetime, things will be entirely different and all of this will have just been one bad dream. We're just about to take back the Congress... and if we all just sit back and let the Republicans try to maintain the control they've been trying to maintain... it'll be but a mere two and a half years before the White House is ours again, too. (Ahh, I look forward to saying "President Clinton" again.)
We've pushed it to the point where we have a majority. All the neo-cons that you see on their little cable television programs with their talkings points sent to them via memo... it's all an elaborate show. An act of desperation on their part. They know their losing and the only way they can win is to let us think that they are winning -- it's sort of how Crash won Best Picture. It only won because they told everyone enough times that it could actually win.
Just remember this, folks. 49% of our country did not vote for George W. Bush. That's a fact. Listen to this... Truman beat Dewey by more votes than George W. Bush beat Al Gore (and John Kerry, too, I think). -- If you are unaware of the joke, pardon me while I explain because it is actually very funny. Back in the 50s, the newspaper headlines in Chicago (I believe that was the city) read "DEWEY WINS!" -- which was false... so the joke is that George W. Bush won by less votes than it took to mistake the winner of that election between Truman and Dewey.
Bush's approval ratings hit another all-time low this week. In case you haven't heard. Everyone is already regretting where we are at... and it's only a matter of time before we have the ability to completely change things up with the government and get some people in there that actually understand what is going on in the world today.
Within my lifetime, folks. Within my lifetime. Gay marriage will not only be legal, but it will be looked at like: "how come this hasn't
always been legal?" -- And that, my friends, I can guarantee you.
Keep your chins up.
We have a lot to be proud of.
David