Hoping For The Best

I have already read about (and even personally heard) noises made from the Bush-supporting crowd about all of us needing to remember that we're all Americans first, and that we all need to work together. I won't give myself to despair, and will (with no small amount of wariness) wait and see if there really is an effort on behalf of the winners to reconcile.

So let's remain vigilant, and keep a healthy dose of skepticism about, but let's wait and see how this all pans out before we declare the sky is falling. There's no possibility of healing and good things happening if we are closed minded to rapprochement.

Our differences in views and methods are never going to go away. If Kerry had won, it would be good and (somewhat, I guess) right for those accross the aisle to keep asking the critical questions that we need to continue to ask. But we'll never be able to move forward productively if we're not willing to try to work together.

All that being said (and I do mean it), if the Republicans go on a rightwing agenda orgy, all bets are off.