America, the DOOMED

Words cannot describe my disillusionment. This time yesterday, I was feeling optimistic. I had just voted and I expressed, to anyone who would listen, my enthusiasm about finally being a part of the democratic process. And now...shit.
I realized I don't know anything about the "real" America. All my life I've lived with and talked to people who wanted to keep church and state separate, who believed in the right to choose, who wanted a cleaner environment, who thought everyone, regardless of race or class or sexuality or gender, should have the same rights as everyone else. I've never been in a situation where I was the only liberal in a room full of conservatives. I've never had a conversation in which a conservative convinced me that any aspect of his or her point of view was right. I just can't fathom it. George W. Bush became president by stealing an election, turned an economic surplus into a gaping deficit, put millions of people out of work, sent young people to their deaths on false premises, and promised to make America a safer place while doing practically all he could to make every other country in the world hate us. And yet, incredibly, the majority of Americans want him to be president for another four years.
Considering all that happened since this man was, um, not elected, you have to wonder: How many more mistakes will be made? How many more soldiers and civilians will die? How much more will women, gays and minorities be set back?
Four more years. Think about it. By the time we get another chance to set things right, I'll be out of college and we will all have spent something like one-tenth of our lives under the rule of a man who, in a better world, wouldn't even be fit to flip our burgers.