(my belated reaction to last night)

I'm really happy Barack won and can hardly believe that he did so in such a landslide fashion. It shows how demoralized and cynical I'd become over the last 8 dreary years.


I support universal healthcare. I do not want Roe v. Wade overturned as I see abortion as a woman's issue that the government should not be involved with. I'm also hoping Obama will begin to shape America's position in the world in a new direction - away from imperialism and all the bad karma we've been putting out into the world for so long now (Example: when Pakistan and India nearly went to war several years ago, the U.S. weapons industry sold fighter craft, munitions etc. to BOTH SIDES - this tells the world that all that matters to us is profit.) In order to accomplish this, we need to let GO of our need to be the world's only superpower and to dominate everyone else. You may think that's crazy, but I'm not listening to your cynical "nothing's going to change, and nothing needs to change" viewpoint any more. Because we're going to lose the position of world dominance whether we want to or not. It's already happening. History has proven time and time again that empires don't last.
EMPIRES NEVER LAST!

I'm both excited at the prospect of Obama's presidency and fearful of the way the deck is stacked against him - so much negative karma which he didn't put into the world but will have to take responsibility for and deal with. But he exudes confidence, and that makes me confident for him. Here's hoping that better times are in store, and the age of cynicism and regression that basically set in at the end of the 60s and has plagued us ever since may finally be on its last sickly legs.


~TLT~