I’m saddened that the current Bush administration was given another four years not because there was some conspiracy of voter fraud going on, but because so many fell victim to the scare tactics used by the far right wing republicans. So many people have told me they voted for Bush because of his stance on gay marriage and abortion above all other considerations.
I don’t wish to beat a dead horse, but there are much larger issues to be considered with another four years of a republican administration.
Just recently it has been brought up, again, that the Arctic Circle is getting warmer, which causes the ice to melt and oceans to rise all over the world. This is something that affects everybody, but the Bush administration (meaning us Americans) refuses to be a part of the conversation. How can we not talk about this? How can something that affects the whole world, and that has the whole world worried, not be something we are willing to step up and have a say in?
And I don’t want to get into the issue of the percentages of who’s doing what to the earth; the fact is that all the world is a contributor to the problem, but we are the only big nation refusing to take part in the discussion.
Can you honestly not know the answer to the question, “Why doesn’t anybody like us?”
Within the first year of Bush’s administration we refused to take part in the Kyoto protocols, and I don’t know the particulars of that agreement, only that all the nations involved would agree to reduce pollution. Russia has signed on. We have not.
It is bad enough that we don’t care about crapping in our own sandbox, but we don’t care if our crap lands in someone else’s sandbox, either. What if all the nations who do care about this decide we need to take part, whether we like it or not?
Yes, we are the world’s only superpower, unless the rest of the world gangs up on us. We lost our biggest philosophical enemy when the Soviet Union went tits up, but now we have something called the European Union. Yes, they were formed to stabilize their economy with a common currency, but how long will it be before they decide that they get along so well they could further stabilize their countries with a common government, and a common army? What if the United Nations decides we are such bad citizens of the world that they vote us out? (I don’t know if that’s even possible, but I’m concerned about it.)
It is common knowledge that carbon monoxide is bad for us, so how can we ignore what it is doing to the world. How can we think the issue of abortion and gay marriage are more important than China or Russia, or the European Union saying to us, “You better get your ass on the band wagon, or else.”
If it gets to that point before we wake up and smell the smog, what are we going to do? Are we going to wait until the world is broken before we attempt to fix it? Will the rest of the world get tired of waiting for us to wake up?
