clear cut
I am struck by the absolute tragedy of what this election has shown us, that the simple desire to be on the perceived right side of “moral” issues was enough for people to overlook transgressions that should have, under normal circumstances, been more than enough to inspire a regime change. The fact that not only was his regime not changed, but rather rewarded with a mandate, I find to be morally repugnant. I do not recall lieing and war making as being bedrock Christian values, but I guess that is just me being old fashioned, and the rest of the country being progessive.
So lets look at one of the side notes of this new election, the Tongass National forest Where there had been a road-less rule in affect to protect the remaining old growth forest, now the road-less rule has been over turned and with a republican led congress and a popularly supported right wing executive branch the Clear Cutting is set to begin. 50 new areas have been designated to be cut which will diminish the total remaining old growth stands by more than half. And the very people who were up in arms about this issue are the very same people who voted for this President. I can simply not believe that the American people think this is acceptable. It truly makes me ashamed, ASHAMED. I hope that it is possible for future generations to forgive us when they go to the Tongass Forest and do not find a single Old Growth tree standing, but why should they forgive us, when we had the chance to set things right but instead decided to REWARD the very wrong doing that is destroying our world.