What I Lost, Along With The Election

My church! Like so many others I've seen, I was disgusted by the pro-GWB stance some higher-ups took in the Catholic church, and the "communion-gate" bullshit. Hypocrites. Stopped going to church in August. I'm 44 and had gone every Sunday before then.

Some friends....including one not-too-appropriate flirtation type friend that was a GOOD thing. I had no idea he was a freeper-type!! I was horrified!

My idealism. I really, really believed that people would see through GWB. I thought they would take this chance and stop this insanity. I thought it wounld transcend all the lines, political, racial, etc.

My new take: half the people in this country are fools who are getting played by a group of very evil men. IT'S A DRAG.

But here's what I hate. Now I cringe at the thought of even being near a GWB voter. Stupid assholes. Even the ones who don't even like to argue about it and aren't blowhard types, I used to be able to tolerate that somewhat. Now as far as I'm concerned, they're all complicit in the war and everything else. I was supposed to go hear a band on Saturday and I don't even wanna go now because one of the guys in it voted for GWB.

I avoided all of the local Rethuglicans also.

We would welcome you in the Church of Religious Science (we're lib-ur-als).

Or the Unitarian-Universalists are also welcoming....

...are also safe havens, plus very similar to the Roman Catholicism you left, but without the authoritarianism.

or the episcopal churches some of them with gay and female ministers too i think.

... church

These are the same people who are more outraged by gay marriage than an illegal war and the suffering and deaths of thousands of people.

Or people who voted against Kerry because they didn't like Teresa.

It goes beyond stupidity to complicity, like you say.

every single word you've written could apply to me as well! I about hit the roof at work today when some co-workers were cheering when they heard that Kerry was conceding. I just don't know how I can stand being around any repugs at all right now and into the near future. I was always able to before, hell I have repub friends and family, but I just can't take it right now.

around clapping and hollering when O.J. was acquitted. It was sick then. And that type of thing is sick now.