Thoughts on the interregnum
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pecuniumI keep seeing this meme,
"He won. Get over it.
It bothers me, and last week, seeing a listserve flaming match full of it, it began (in the shower, where, as has been said before, I tend to mull matters of weighty thought) to dawn on me why.
It's bullshit. I mean we all know it's bullshit. It's a rhetorical way of someone saying, "shut up," without resorting to that much open aggression.
It's discountive. As if the mere fact of my guy losing invalidates what I have to say on the issues.
Which is bullshit. We have elections, not annointings. Being declared the winner doesn't give said winner a free ride (and most certainly it doesn't when the margin of the victory was so small as it was in the most recent presidential election). If I had doubts and reservations about a candidate before the election, they don't magically fade away when the tally gets totted up.
What really irks me is I know the people doing this, and they are not being honest, because they were shrill, to the point of incoherence; with non-sensical ramblings (I still hear about the "murders" the Clintons managed to commit/have committed), when they were on the losing side.
But now... heck, their guy won and we need to, get over it.
Bullshit. If he can be "the kind of guy who stands up for what he knows is right, even when the rest of the world disagrees," so can I. More to the point, I will.
If I have to be a preacher in the wilderness, so be it. If it means I get treated to scorn and ridicule (beyond my portion) so be it. If it means some people stop reading me, then regrettably; because I hope to persuade those outside the choir, so be it.
I am not going to trim my sails to public opinion. I shan't bow my head to men, nor bend my knee. I do not have a king; my natural superior, I have a president, who is, at best, primus inter pares and I am one of that parity.
If those who take issue with what I have to say don't like it, well I have three words for them.
"Get over it"
"He won. Get over it.
It bothers me, and last week, seeing a listserve flaming match full of it, it began (in the shower, where, as has been said before, I tend to mull matters of weighty thought) to dawn on me why.
It's bullshit. I mean we all know it's bullshit. It's a rhetorical way of someone saying, "shut up," without resorting to that much open aggression.
It's discountive. As if the mere fact of my guy losing invalidates what I have to say on the issues.
Which is bullshit. We have elections, not annointings. Being declared the winner doesn't give said winner a free ride (and most certainly it doesn't when the margin of the victory was so small as it was in the most recent presidential election). If I had doubts and reservations about a candidate before the election, they don't magically fade away when the tally gets totted up.
What really irks me is I know the people doing this, and they are not being honest, because they were shrill, to the point of incoherence; with non-sensical ramblings (I still hear about the "murders" the Clintons managed to commit/have committed), when they were on the losing side.
But now... heck, their guy won and we need to, get over it.
Bullshit. If he can be "the kind of guy who stands up for what he knows is right, even when the rest of the world disagrees," so can I. More to the point, I will.
If I have to be a preacher in the wilderness, so be it. If it means I get treated to scorn and ridicule (beyond my portion) so be it. If it means some people stop reading me, then regrettably; because I hope to persuade those outside the choir, so be it.
I am not going to trim my sails to public opinion. I shan't bow my head to men, nor bend my knee. I do not have a king; my natural superior, I have a president, who is, at best, primus inter pares and I am one of that parity.
If those who take issue with what I have to say don't like it, well I have three words for them.
"Get over it"
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For me
Date: 2004-12-06 11:11 pm (UTC)Re: For me
Date: 2004-12-06 11:14 pm (UTC)The thing which pissed me off was when a comment on the new policies of the present administration were criticised, the critic was told to get over it, because Bush won.
TK
Re: For me
Date: 2004-12-06 11:31 pm (UTC)Although, alternatively, I've found just as many liberals being coarse about the whole deal...not as a matter of not letting go, but not admitting that life does move on. Me? I'm looking forward while still feeling that gust of wind at my back.
Re: For me
Date: 2004-12-06 11:33 pm (UTC)Right, because the fact that he won means that all his policies and stances are automatically Right and Good and MoralTM.