never seen a sight so fine

[sophistry]

This was locked at first. But then I said, fuck it.

I've been an emotional wreck for a chunk of the day, and while there are other factors, I'm not going to pretend the election isn't a big part of it. Maybe it seems facetious to those of you who are actually American, and I know that while my family is interested (passingly) in the election, they're more than a little mystified by how invested I am in the result. But: this, and this, and this, and the past few years have built my faith (my real, spiritual faith) in the interconnectedness of humankind, and I've never seen anything like this. I don't, I really don't agree with him on everything, and yet still - when Obama says from coast to coast, I hear from my coast to yours; when Obama says from sea to shining sea, I hear Atlantic, Pacific, Indian; Caspian, Mediterranean, Black, Red; and commenters from all over the world are holding their breath - on HuffPo, on Making Light, on any liberal-slanted site you care to name. What inspires me most about Barack Obama is that he inspires us. This is my real, spiritual faith, and it's happening right now.

And then - I am not putting this post together coherently. Interconnectedness, the web of all human life, whatever you want to call it; the thing is - history is so important. Is so, so important. And this time, instead of history coming to the world on hijacked wings on a September morning - this time, history is just there, right around the corner, waiting for us to arrive. We are making history. Do you understand? This is history, the good kind of history, the Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. kind of history, and we're living it. Do you understand?

And this.

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[indy-go.livejournal.com]

I do.

[padfoot]

I'm staying up until 6am to watch this thing on television - only wish I had an actual vote. Crossing my fingers for the right result. ♥

[veenstra168.livejournal.com]

staying up tomorrow night until we know who wins. I hope we get some change we can believe in, because God Knows we need it. And not just us Americans. The World needs change to believe in. And you better believe that I have cried more in these last days than is probably healthy.

God, I hope he wins.

[mad-megan.livejournal.com]

:) I think a lot of people here in the U.S. and elsewhere are all feeling the same kind of thing, and that is WONDERFUL. This means something more to me than policy. I feel like it says something more...something that gives me a lot of hope in humankind. Not that I'm not still sick to my stomach with nerves tonight. O__O

[arboretum]

I feel like I haven't been able to stop crying for the whole last month.

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

Yes, I understand. As an American voluntarily living on your shores, I definitely understand. He reaches all of us.

[unravels.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think I do. You do a much better job of articulating it, though. I said I'd wait till 9 or 10 this morning so as not to be Another Body In Line during polling rush hour, so to speak, but it is going to be a long, long 2 hours. This is a big part of why I'm such a basket case. In a good way.

[batyatoon]

Yes.