Election 2004
Well, Bush beat Kerry. This is good—as bad as George Bush has been, Kerry would have been far, far, far worse. It was important to defeat him, and so far as presidential elections go it was a pretty decisive victory. Here in Colorado, unfortunately, Democrats took the contested Senate seat as well as both houses of our state legislature.
Worse yet, an alternative-energy amendment to our constitution passed, which will drive up energy prices without any real effect. On the good side, the amendment to destroy our electoral significance died an ignominious death.
Worst of all, an amendment to massively increase tobacco taxes passed with flying colours. The benighted, tyrannical, foolish, despotic, evil voters decided to steal money from smokers, chewers and snuff-takers and use those ill-gotten funds for anti-tobacco propaganda. The worst of it is that the brunt of these punitive measures will be borne by poor folks. I don’t really care that my few tins a year will go up (well, I do, but it doesn’t really hurt me), but the poor slob who smokes a pack a day will end up spending hundreds extra a year to fund a campaign dedicated to opposing him. It’s like Hitler raising taxes on the Jews to fund an anti-Semitic newspaper.
Given that God likes freedom (He gave us free will, after all), and given that it’s a sin to oppose His will, I am certain that every single bastard who voted for the accurséd legislation will spend eternity burning in Hell. I feel sorry for them: their victory in this life will seem as naught compared to their misery in the next. On the other hand, they deserve every lick of flame and every lash of the whip, so I’m not shedding too many tears for them (I have too many faults of my own to regret). They had the chance to do what is right, and they chose the path of iniquity.
At least John Kerry won’t be president. That would have been an absolute disaster, probably worse than the Clinton years (for the stakes are higher now).
