To the Editor:
The premise “when people vote, they vote Democratic” has been proven wrong. I admit it; I did not see this coming. Yes, in the back of my mind I thought that George W. Bush had the potential to win this election, but not in the way it happened.
The perceived accuracy of vote counts in this election did not bring the legal battles I expected to see. Within a few hours of the closing of the polls, John Kerry conceded, and George W. Bush is still our president.
The most striking factor that I see is not the electoral vote count but the popular vote. Our election system worked the way it was supposed to, and George W. Bush won the popular vote! The news media were not, in fact, voting for Kerry or Nader for that matter. The most heavy voter turnout since Johnson vs. Goldwater voted for George W. Bush.
The budding major factor of voter decision in this election: morality! Not war, not the economy, not terrorism. People liked George W. Bush’s vision of morality. What is that vision most likely to be? Let’s hypothesize: the gradual and inevitable union of popular fundamentalist Christianity and state.
We have been taken hostage by middle America! In the coming elections, Democrats will progressively move toward the right and thus creating a one-party country, a “conservative” country. Bush will, with the help of a more powerful Republican Congress, appoint Supreme Court Justices who will mirror his social agenda.
I propose this notion. We can live without them, but they can’t live without us. We control the major centers of commerce, we have the collective intelligence, we have the ingenuity, we have the intellectual revenue, we have the advantage. We have two options.
One, secede – we can take the Atlantic northeast starting at the border of Maryland and north. We would control the St. Lawrence seaway, thus putting economic pressure on the plains states and also the entire West Coast!
Two, leave – imagine a gradual mass exodus over the next four to six years of 49 percent of the population of the United States. This country would sustain a “brain drain” so massive that it would make India look like it was populated by 100% MIT grads.
Both options would be painful and hard. But what is that compared to what we will endure if we do nothing.
Sincerely,
Michael Seth Freed