Well, I have to give props to Dubya (or to Karl Rove). He certainly knows his constituencies. The way I see it, Dubya won thanks to massive turnout of his core base, which includes:
- the ignorant dumbass constituency
- the "I got mine, screw the rest of you" constituency
- the "God is a Republican" constituency
He scared enough people to make up the slack between these three groups and an ever-so-slight majority. Not that the Republicans will entertain even for a moment ideas of healing the divide, of bridging the gap with the 49% that didn't vote for them. No, I anticipate they will act as if they'd been elected in an electoral landslide and continue to shove their pyscho theocratic agenda down our throats.
Watch for continued demonizing of dissenters, nomination of Scalia-clones to the Federal bench and Supreme Court, and an aggressive anti-environment pro-"Christian" agenda.
It's going to have to get a whole lot worse before it will get any better. I thought it was as bad as it could get, but I forgot that it can always get worse.
The only good news I can think of is at least W will have to clean up his own mess in Iraq. He won't be able to say "It was going fine, and then President Kerry screwed it up."
But I'm not bitter.
Posted by jbuie at November 3, 2004 02:32 PM