It was a tight Presidential race, and it shouldn't have been. It should have been a landslide Democratic victory. The rest of the world has long considered Americans as idiots. Now they are unabashedly convinced of it.

Yesterday, 51% of the US population decided that an incompetent imperialistic fundamentalist ideologue was the guy they wanted to run this country. They decided to re-install someone who will completely trample their civil rights, bankrupt their economy beyond return, take away the rights women have over their own bodies, and wage war on any country that disagrees with his radical Christian beliefs. They have condemned countless more soldiers, hundreds, thousands, to death and dismemberment. They have now made it impossible for two members of the same sex to enjoy the rights that hetero married couples do. They have come to the conclusion that Big Brother really isn't that bad, that they really don't need the right to privacy or the ability to think for themselves. They have made it abundantly clear that they don't want to have to tax themselves more than watching the latest reality-based crapfest, or mindless action-adventure Hollywood intelligence reducer.

John Kerry just conceded the race an hour ago, and my heart is officially broken. I want to cry. As Wil Wheaton says:

"I hoped I would wake up this morning to the good news that our long national nightmare was over.

It's not over.

It's just beginning."

Welcome to four more years of being lied to and deceived. Four more years of an economy bakrupted by a war that can never be won and more tax cuts to the wealthiest people in this country. More job losses than the Great Depression, eradication of our civil liberties, incompetent governance, and complete isolation from the rest of the world.

Today, I'm ashamed to be an American.

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