Thu, 07/23/2009 - 12:53pm — jeffazi
Oh boy. Where to start?
I guess the best place to start is with an apology? No, that's not right. An acknowledgement is probably better.
I totally fucked up. I didn't listen to Lambert et. al. before voting in the 2008 Presidential Election. I thought I knew what I was voting for. I didn't. I thought I knew what I would get? I didn't. OMG!
WTF
do we do now?
I'm sufficiently contrite. What's my penance?
Jeff
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call! send faxes!
keep pushing them all to the left.
Well said, Hipp
And forward looking, too!
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Don't beat yourself up over it.
It's like being a parent: you make the best decision you can at the time, and hope it's the right one. Sometimes it isn't, and when it isn't, you just keep moving forward, doing the best you can.
I agonized over my vote in 2008. I'm an assistant chief election judge in my precinct, have voted in every election since I was old enough to vote. Finally decided I was just not going to vote for anyone for president, since I didn't think either candidate was qualified, and I'd gotten jaded about always voting for the (D). It felt weird not to vote for someone, but I got past it.
Just because you regret your vote does not mean you cannot be vocal about what you want now. Hipparchia is right - do all the things that you can to express your opinions and put pressure on those who represent you in Congress. Write letters to the editor, call your Congressperson and Senators.
Forgive yourself.