Oh, but you are completely missing the point! These people have REASON to feel depressed. Their sadness and fears for the future need to be validated by numerous articles BECAUSE all the people writing them AGREE with the idea that we are now doomed because W is President for 4 more years.
Any upset we may have had in 92 simply wasn't valid. We didn't REALLY have anything to fear from Clinton- he was saving us from ourselves. Better to ignore it, dear.
A lot of them are very depressed because they were hoping for a Kerry gravy train of increased grants and programs for "social programs", more university research money to "study why America is so nasty", etc, etc
The political power of the Dem party rests on its ability to pay off its supporters, and impose costs on its opponents. That ability is diminished when they are out of power.
Remember how dependent they were on PAID voter registrants and "get out the vote" people? If they can't supply "walking-around money" to activists in the 2008 cycle, they are toast.
One of the most bizarre aspects of this whole affair remains: Their hatred of Bush is utterly illogical. Setting aside character issues for a moment, and looking strictly at the legislation he's supported, etc., Bush is NOT that far right of Clinton! He worked closely on legislation with Ted Fricking Kennedy! For liberals to have this fervent, vitriolic hatred of him, far more than even the right had for Clinton IMO, is bizarre.
The only thing that makes sense to me is that it's truly a guttural, primitive reaction on their part, as simple as evil freaking out in the presence of good. Make no mistake about it, liberalism is founded in evil, no matter how shiny the coat of "good intentions." The same hatred they've shown for Bush for four years, is now being poured out on the Christians who dared to elect him. Maybe it's just as simple as that in the end, the way a vampire hisses when sunlight hits him.
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