Election Aftermath: When all of your tears dry, let your troubles roll by.

Originally posted November 3, 2004:

I cried myself to sleep last night.

I woke up late, ran to work, then ran home on my lunch break and had a chance to take a quick glance at my friends list. And I started crying all over again. I have just looked at it again now, and I'm going to have to stop because I'm not even through 50 entries back and there's more despair and hurt and anger than I can bear.

Someone commented on my LJ to say essentially, 'Where are you? please say something to give us hope.' it means--wow, a lot, so much, to think that you would come to me and ask that, ask me to be a voice of hope today. It means so much. I am at work, and still processing everything that has happened, and I have nothing encouraging or hope-filled to say at the moment, but I am going to say this.

Please, my dear friends, all of you, stop saying "Bomb Ohio," or "everyone who voted for Bush is an idiot," or "they re-elected Bush because they were afraid of gay marriage," or anything else like that. Please. Just take a deep breath, and stop. 58 million American voters are not idiots. 58 million Americans are not radical right-wing conservatives, and