Yesterday was pretty insane. I stayed at school way late so I could type out the notes I had to handwrite in class. And I didn't get all the notes I needed - it's impossible to hand write while a Professor is talking way fast. *sigh* At least I've never missed any of my important classes. So I'm not totally lost.

I knew yesterday was going to be a bad day from the way the morning started, but I never realized just how bad it would get. The Republicans now have control over the Senate, the House, and the Presidency. There's nothing stopping them from spreading their right wing Christian bigoted ideas all over the place and making their "ideals" into law. I fully expect that by the time Bush gets out of office abortion will be illegal. That is, if any of us are even alive then. With the way Bush is going we'll be lucky to not get nuked in the next few years.

*sigh* It's not a happy thing to see the white Christian males get another leg up. The idea that this country is a melting pot is bullshit. If you're any sort of minority this is not the land of dreams. Stereotypes dictate the way people look at you. This country was never a land of dreams for anyone other than the white males. Did you know that the founding fathers were racists and wanted all non-whites to be shipped out of the country? Or that the Constitution endorsed slavery? Do you realize that women were bought and sold like cattle? Or that the Native Americans had everything they knew taken away from them? How about the fact that when the US took land from Mexico those Mexicans who chose to stay here had their land stolen from then and they weren't even allowed to be citizens? Are you aware that Chinese immigrants were tortured and shipped out because the white "Americans" were afraid of them merely because many of them did not want to give up their cultural values? Or that we had our own concentration camps for Japanse Americans, even those who were born here? This is a land where the white males prosper and all others are left behind. I worry about the direction this country is headed in. I worry that it will repeat the mistakes of the past.

Now, more than ever, I'm interested in seeing how to break into politics. I feel the fire burning inside of me. I need to do what I can to change things, to make things better for those that have been so often overlooked. Can one person really make a difference? I don't know. But I know I'm not the only one who is fed up with all of this bullshit.

Okay, sorry for the rant but this is something that has been bothering me for awhile now. I just needed to get it off my chest.

And now for something fluffy:

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