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Trying fairly hard to stay civil in LJ about the election because I honestly don't like myself for the way I feel right now. I have hatred in my heart and that's never good. I need to find a way to let it go or it will just eat away at me. I just feel so disconnected from 51% of my countrymen. I try to be open-minded. I try to understand, but I'm genuinely confused as to how anyone can think Bush has done a good job. I just can't wrap my head around it. I want to understand it. I know I'll never agree with them, but I want to know where these people are coming from.
I've been listening to Wicked a lot lately. And there's a line in the intro to the song Defying Gravity that says some of what I'm feeling toward Bush supporters. Glinda and Elphaba(who becomes the witch of the West), two good friends have just made a decision that will take their lives in divergent directions. It being a musical, as they discuss this decision they naturally burst into song. They sing this to each other:
"So though I can't imagine how, I hope you're happy right now."
I've also been pondering the book the musical was based on. There's a lot in it that I think really speaks to the situation the country is in. You see, in the book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, the Wizard of Oz is not the lovable huckster we know from the movie. He's a fanatical despot who makes scapegoats of the talking Animals of Oz in order to hide the fact that he's not doing a particularly good job running the country. Remind you of anyone?
There's a scene early in the book in which a toddler Elphaba utters her first word. She's looking into a mirror and in it she sees a vision of the coming of the Wizard. It describes perfectly what I'm thinking about the next four years.
Elphaba was sitting under the dock with the looking glass that Turtle Heart had made. She held it in two hands, and stared at it with one eye closed. She peered, she squinted; her open eye was distand and hollow.
Reflection from starlight off the water, thought Frex, hoped Frex, but he knew that the bright vacant eye was not lit by starlight.
"Horrors," murmured Elphaba.
Turtle Heart tumbled to his knees. "She sees him coming," he said thickly. "she sees him to come; he is to come from the air; is arriving. A balloon from the sky, the color of a bubble of blood: a huge crimson globe, a ruby globe: he falls from the sky. The Regent is fallen. The House of Ozma is fallen. The Clock was right. A minute to judgement."
He fell over, almost into Elphaba's small lap. She didn't seem to notice him. Behind her was a low growl. there was a beast, a felltop tiger, or some stange hybrid of tiger and dragon, with glowing orangey eyes. Elphaba was sitting in its folded forearms as if on a throne.
"Horrors," she said again, looking without binocular vision, staring at the glass in which her parents and Nanny could make out nothing but darkness. "Horrors."
I hope you're happy.
Now that you're choosing this,
I hope it brings you bliss.
I really hope you get it,
And you don't live to regret it.
I hope you're happy in the end.
I hope you're happy, my friend.
lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
I've been listening to Wicked a lot lately. And there's a line in the intro to the song Defying Gravity that says some of what I'm feeling toward Bush supporters. Glinda and Elphaba(who becomes the witch of the West), two good friends have just made a decision that will take their lives in divergent directions. It being a musical, as they discuss this decision they naturally burst into song. They sing this to each other:
I've also been pondering the book the musical was based on. There's a lot in it that I think really speaks to the situation the country is in. You see, in the book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, the Wizard of Oz is not the lovable huckster we know from the movie. He's a fanatical despot who makes scapegoats of the talking Animals of Oz in order to hide the fact that he's not doing a particularly good job running the country. Remind you of anyone?
There's a scene early in the book in which a toddler Elphaba utters her first word. She's looking into a mirror and in it she sees a vision of the coming of the Wizard. It describes perfectly what I'm thinking about the next four years.
Elphaba was sitting under the dock with the looking glass that Turtle Heart had made. She held it in two hands, and stared at it with one eye closed. She peered, she squinted; her open eye was distand and hollow.
Reflection from starlight off the water, thought Frex, hoped Frex, but he knew that the bright vacant eye was not lit by starlight.
"Horrors," murmured Elphaba.
Turtle Heart tumbled to his knees. "She sees him coming," he said thickly. "she sees him to come; he is to come from the air; is arriving. A balloon from the sky, the color of a bubble of blood: a huge crimson globe, a ruby globe: he falls from the sky. The Regent is fallen. The House of Ozma is fallen. The Clock was right. A minute to judgement."
He fell over, almost into Elphaba's small lap. She didn't seem to notice him. Behind her was a low growl. there was a beast, a felltop tiger, or some stange hybrid of tiger and dragon, with glowing orangey eyes. Elphaba was sitting in its folded forearms as if on a throne.
"Horrors," she said again, looking without binocular vision, staring at the glass in which her parents and Nanny could make out nothing but darkness. "Horrors."
Now that you're choosing this,
I hope it brings you bliss.
I really hope you get it,
And you don't live to regret it.
I hope you're happy in the end.
I hope you're happy, my friend.
lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
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*blink* wtf?
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But that is just moronic.
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*hugs*
The only thing that gives me hope is that no matter what bush says, it's not a mandate, even in the "red" states there are large portions of the people who aren't happy with the way things are run. 51% is, I think, a lot smaller than it was in the 80's and early 90's. I really do think this is just the darkness before the dawn. hang in there man!