The Furious Spinner

I'm listening to John Edwards give his concession speech. I wasn't going to watch, but I am. First I danced. Then I cried. Now I'm listening.

"You cannot walk away," Edwards says.

Now John Kerry is speaking. He tells us that all our work is a beginning and that we have made a difference. Right this moment, it's difficult to see how wwe made a difference—since he lost the election with more votes going for the Emperor with No Clothes than in 2000. Someone just emailed me and asked for words of encouragement. I didn't know what to say. These are the only words I can think of right this moment: Perhaps seeds of activism have been planted all over the country because of this election, and soon we'll see what will grow in this new garden.

Kerry just said we must work together; we need unity. I agree it would be good it we could be a unified country, but not at the expense of what is right and wrong. I won't make nice with people who supported The Emperor with No Clothes. I won't make nice with Nazis and fascists. I won't make nice with people who think it's all right that 100,000 Iraqis have died because of Bush's war. I won't make nice with people who think it's all right that over 1,100 of our soldiers have died. I won't make nice with people who want to take away my rights to my own beautiful body. I won't make nice with people who want women to be on their knees to men. I won't make nice with people who think this planet is theirs to cut up and sell and pollute. I won't make nice with bigots. I won't make nice with people who want to take away our civil rights. I won't make nice with people who don't want every vote counted. I won't make nice with people who think it's holy and right to take away the rights of gays and lesbians. I won't make nice.

That is my "concession" speech.

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