The most painful part of the last two days is the margin of victory. It's around 3-4 million last time I checked. And even more startling than that is Bush's 51 percent of the popular vote. That does not happen often. How did this happen? Where did all the angry war voters go? Where is all the patriot act fear? What about the regressive tax systems? What happened to that surge of democratic support? What happened to all you liberals?

God happened to all you people who were supposed to come to Kerry given Bush's remarkable underperformance. Not just any God, my God. The Christian ideal of morals and tradationalism has reared its ugly head this year--these last few years too. The Protestants (if you don't know the differences between the various Christian sects I suggest you figure it out) have, and will always, vote conservative--very conservative. These are the people who wore KKK cloaks and terrorized minorities and Jews simply because they could. These people hate anything that doesn't perfectly fit into their 'Old Testament' view of the world. They love the Old Testament. They love white people. These are NOT compassionate christians. These are the descendents of the People's Crusade. All things not like them are to be ignored only if they can't be eliminated, never accepted. This includes jews, muslims, scientologists, scientists, history students and whoever looks a little different.

They key to protestants is the Old Testament, particularly the first five books: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. To most protestants, especially they more zealous clans, the New Testament is only a small addendum. Protestants love fire and brimstone and Saddam and Gamorrah. They don't like the inclusionary principles of Jesus. The think of Jesus as their Lord and Savior, but not much else. I repeat, they prefer the angry God. They like him angrier whenever possible.

More on this later.