Regarding the earlier post...

[conuly]

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2004-08-02-ord-note_x.htm

So, which is worse, do you think?

Here's something really scary. I don't think things are going to get better if Bush isn't (re)elected. When did you ever hear of anybody, least of all the government, willingly giving up power? What's going to happen is everybody'd talk about how wonderful civil liberties are, and how terrible the trend NOW was (before the election in the future... are you following?)... and nothing is ever going to change.

Comments

[mortaine.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

Just a wary election supervisor, watching the corruption erode everything I work for.

[conuly]

I just read Handmaid's Tale again. Dear God, nobody should ever let me near dystopic novels. They scare me half to death in the best of circumstances, and now isn't exactly the best of anything.

[priyatelka.livejournal.com]

That is a great book, but yeah, no way in hell I would lay hands on it at the moment. That just sucks.

[conuly]

Good thing I don't have my copy of 1984 handy. I'd have nightmares for a month!

[priyatelka.livejournal.com]

Heh. No doubt. Only read that one once. Scared the hell out of me. Have read the Handmaid's Tale twice. Never read The Lottery. Trying to think of other ones...

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Same here. (This will be my 3rd election as a a precinct inspector/supervisor in the SF Bay Area.)

I'm planning on asking the county clerk what she wants us to do if the government derails things on election day, because that would leave me with a building full of infuriated liberal voters. Part of me thinks it seems ridiculous to imagine that even Bush & Co. would dare shut the election down midway...but then I remember some of the other things that have gone on and realize that it might be something worth worrying about after all. :-p