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I occasionally get weird email, but if nothing else attests to the deep rift in America brought forth by this election [~300k, WashPost], it would be the large amount of ugly discourse between people who would otherwise have little or nothing to say to each other save maybe about the weather in the grocery store line. I've had a few wingnuts, but this one landed in my inbox tonight that really got to me. You know, Bush won already and it takes at least a small amount of energy to send an email to someone, so what kind of hate or fear or whatever it is does it take to send such a message? It might interest the Finns considering I've been forced by Finns into cowering on a few occasions over Bush and, well, I guess they haven't kept up with those folks over in the US who still call themselves Finns several generations removed.

Most Americans of Finnish decent voted for Bush, bar a few union socialists left over from the mining era. If Kerry was your idea of a good candidate for leadership, no wonder you are scared.  His post election speech was yet another pathetic backpedal.  Finns do well in America because we are equipped to compete, we don't need diet-socialist rhetoric because we are not a huddled mass in a bread line.

Great, so now I get to take shit from Finns on both sides of the Atlantic for a guy I didn't elect and whose policies I don't support. Can someone Finnish translate the whole thing about the Stalinist breadline jab? There has been a lot of press in the past few days, since Kerry did the necessary thing of not forcing the country into weeks of turmoil, about how the country needs to 'come together' and how the liberals need to 'understand' the heartland. I grew up in one of those flyover states, in one of the very few blue spots in there I might add, and I still have no idea or understanding of people out there voting for Bush. I don't see how people so polarized and self-righteous on both sides could possibly find a middle ground unless or until there is another terrorist strike on US soil which is always a possibility these days if not a near certainty. Otherwise, it's going to be the educated godless heathens on the coasts vs. everyone in the flyover states for the next four years. My godless heathen friends in the US, I remind you that you really should consider escaping as you can't argue with these folks and, more importantly, their rate of reproduction is likely much higher ala Utah. If a civil war breaks out though, I'll be on the next plane over.