So this is going to be sappy liberal drabble. Ignore it if that sort of thing pisses you off :P

[arrowwhiskers]

So. When the actual result came out I didn't want to make a huge fuss, since I was at a mini-party in Ray's room and there were a couple of disgruntled conservatives present. But I felt my heart soar over the news. I can scarcely believe it's true.

As I was walking back to my apartment, much later, I could feel the electricity of the future fizzling out of the landscape. My own excitement was bouncing off of the distant mountains and rocketing out in all directions and adding to all the charge that's already hovering, rising up above the dark windows and squat little rooves of desert homes. I can just feel it, the *newness* that has exploded from Tucson all the way to the streets of Seattle and the corners of Maine and in every square inch of America!

I know that nothing has really changed. Bush is still my president. And yet at the same time, everything has changed. Look at what the American people did, look what has been decided. I can't even...I'm just so proud.

On an impulse, I turned my camera on and belted "The Times They Are a Changin'"... Which, in retrospect, was really embarrassing since I had to keep glancing over at my computer to remember the words...plus, I'm sick as hell. So I don't think I'll upload it, but it felt *so good* to sing it, and to MEAN it--the words carry a special meaning again. For better or for worse, things ARE going to change. A lot. Holy crap.

On the downside, prop 102 passed, and last I checked California's prop 8 wasn't looking too good either. But I can't let it bring me down now, not tonight. Tonight is not the night.

PS. Bri, I'm thinking of you. :) I'm so proud of you, you know. I hope you're getting really effing drunk and celebrating like you really deserve to.

Just...sigh :) Sí, se puede.

Comments

[grimnir42.livejournal.com]

He won by a LOT too... I am really proud of this country as well.

What was prop 102?

[arrowwhiskers.livejournal.com]

It defined in the Arizona constitution that marriage is *necessarily* between one man and one woman. :\

[grimnir42.livejournal.com]

If we can get a black president in this country, whose foundations are sunk deep in the mud of slavery and is now slamming the door shut on its racist past, we can get gay marriage. It'll take some time, but it'll come around.

[jetaimerai.livejournal.com]

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

you thought of me ♥♥ thank you so much, te quiero mucho mi amorita :D

[lolife.livejournal.com]

¡Sí, se puede!

[sforzare.livejournal.com]

There were two propositions on my absentee ballot, though none of them had to do with marriage. I heard that gay marriage got banned in California and Florida, though... :/ I thought it was legal in California before, though? Or am I mistaken? People are dumb.

[jetaimerai.livejournal.com]

Randomly jumping in here, but to explain the California situation:

There was a prop banning gay marriage in California back in 2000 or so, and it was recently turned over by the state's Supreme Court as being unconstitutional. Prop 8 is about banning gay marriage IN THE FUCKING CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION so that they can't use that argument anymore. It just passed. I'm so depressed by my home state you don't even know.