I was going to run three dense, separate posts of analysis on this election & its aftermath, entitled “WHO LOST: OLD WHITE FOLKS,” “WHO LOST: THE GAYS,” “WHO WON: EVERYBODY ELSE” but then, like a long-time friend of the blog, I heard the Voyce of the Lord, and He spaketh unto me: “No.”
So instead I’ll say this: fuck you, California, fuck you to the idiots running the anti-Prop 8 campaign, unable to grasp basic truths of American politics, and fuck you to all the big-toothed Dirrrty West Mormons who funded the pro campaign. And fuck you to Barack Obama for his political calculus, giving as much as he could to remain a Good Democrat without alienating the rest of the country, a phenomenon marked by his refusal to support gay marriage or speak out forcefully against Prop-8, and the voicing of his tepid support for civil unions in as few syllables as possible and only when prompted. And fuck you to the Clintons, the DLC, Al Gore, John Kerry and every other limp-dicked Democrat of the last sixteen years. You were the worst of all.
NOW. If there is one thing which my life has taught me, it is this: the smallest minority in America has got to be the children of single mother households who were sired by secular Muslim immigrants. The only other person with that convoluted parental history whom I even know of, let alone know, is our boy Barack Hussein Obama. So I’ve given his ascent an enormous amount of thought and have not, really, been able to suss it out as much as I’d like– but one can’t help lose the feeling that this background either produces the god damned President of the United States or, well, me.
Anyway: fuck yes.
