I am sunk into a depression over the election results. I started out Anyone But Bush but actually came to like John Kerry, which makes his defeat even harder. I feel like I’m looking at four years of prison and share this country with a pack of baboons. Everywhere I look I see that smug bastard’s picture, and I am filled with grief.
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Twenty-four hours later we were wishing we’d never found that fucking place. Because now–right now, as I write this, the day after the election–we can’t picture ourselves staying in this country. I know, I know–lots of people threatened to leave the country if George W. Bush won in 2000, and very few of us did. Why? Here’s my theory: because Bush actually didn’t win the election in 2000. Knowing that Bush stole the election, I was able to look my fellow Americans in the eye and think, shit, we didn’t elect this guy–the majority of us voted against the asshole. But he didn’t steal it this time. This time the asshole actually got elected. That changes things.
This is a disorienting time to be an American homo. George W. Bush appears to have won the White House not on security but on “values,” this being code for opposition to gay marriage, abortion, and stem-cell research–but mostly to gay marriage. Anti-gay-marriage amendments passed in 11 states, and pundits are saying that the antigay vote got Bush elected. OK, so America hates gays. That means we should probably get the fuck out while the getting’s good.
Thanks for the invite, CAN. I’m thinking about it. And for other Americans thinking about heading north, I recommend these two Web sites: www.marryanamerican.ca (for laughs) and www.cic.gc.ca (for serious).
But hey, if this cold-comfort analysis is wrong, SSF, if we all live to regret the gay-marriage issue coming to a head, rest assured that all the dykes and faggots out there will pay a high price for it.
