The agonizing currently going on in the Liberal newspapers as to why the good guys lost is predictable.  Such wasted efforts are not the style of the four-more-years crowd.  They have immediately seized the day and initiative to pick up where they left off. They want to complete the effort to remake America in the image of John Wayne, Charlton Heston and Hannibal Lechter.   There are no flies on the Republican masters of America.

Agonizing over lost opportunities is a waste of time when instead of asking why, the race should immediately begin again.  Lost time now trying to figure out “why” will surely help our new rulers cement themselves into positions of power.  The permanency of such power should concern us rather than the time limit imposed by a fearful crowd following World War II and the four terms won by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Not only do our rulers not want another Roosevelt (I think they secretly would like Bush or his descendant, heir or puppeteer to succeed him) they do not want the social engineering that came along with the New and Fair Deals, the New Frontier and the War on Poverty.

I was sent a reworked map of North America by e-mail that shows two nations occupying what used to be two countries called the United States and Canada.  The map is reworked so that there is Alaska separated from a central and southern “Jesusland” while the western coast of the old U.S. is joined to an upper country called the United States of Canada.  This is cute but not too far from the truth.  Why the Bible toting crowd should have given Mr. Bush and his associates the election is something that is being chewed over right now.  What is frightening is the idea that if it worked for Mr. Bush and the Republicans, it could work for the Democrats and whoever the emerging “centrist” leader might be. 

Why Bush won and Kerry lost is interesting.  But, why should the losers not shake off the ennui of despair immediately and get to work formulating what democracy has stood for? This is really a better question.

There is nothing wrong with Middle America and traditional values.  What is important is that these values have been hardened into indefensible positions where anyone with a spark of knowledge or intellectual curiosity can point out their fallacies and danger.  My hope is that the whys are left behind and the work recommenced to make America what it has always been; a land where freedom and justice mean just that and not just the privileged few.  Long live a free, universal and compulsory education for all. Forget Home Instruction and Charter Schools and teach democracy where it has been supported for 200 years.