Full Auto: Dear Liberal Friend

Full Auto: Dear Liberal Friend:

Thursday, November 18, 2004

Full Auto: Dear Liberal Friend

Well I've been having a struggle to put my feelings regarding results of the presidential election if you can call it that down into words that make any sort of semblance of sense.

The essay I've failed to write so far would be mostly aimed at my democratic friends and loved ones as is this essay by the incomparable Tuccille.

So check out this snippet, please? And maybe read the entire thing.

"Dear Liberal Friend;

I feel your pain. You just suffered through an election in which your side lost and a politician you despise was returned to the White House at the head of a triumphant band of congressional allies. Now you fear that the 'enemy' administration will use the power of the state to shove its alien values down your throat.

Of course I sympathize. As a libertarian, I've spent all my life suffering through disappointing election returns. Each turn of the political wheel brings new laws and bureaucracies that exist to impose values on me that I utterly reject. The difference between me and you is that I never have high hopes on election eve, so I feel resignation instead of despair. Oh. Another difference is that some of the alien values shoved down my throat in the past were yours. Whoops! I guess now you know how it feels. "