My fellow Americans...

I am deeply disappointed in you. You have voted in a President who has worked to reduce our civil liberties, sent us into a likely-to-never-end war on "terrorism," squandered a (budget) surplus into a deficit, and expanded our government like no other modern president. This president will now likely have the opportunity to appoint 2 or 3 Supreme Court justices, which will turn the justice system into a bastion of maniacal, "moral" conservatism. So long, Roe v Wade.

You also have voted in a Republican Senate and House of Representatives, who will likely rubber-stamp without comment the President's further actions to reduce our Constitutionally granted rights and freedoms, all in the name of national security. I can already hear the order "Papers, please!" echoing throughout the country.

Shame on you also, those Americans in 11 states who voted to ban gay marriage and civil unions. I think I can understand the traditionalist stance on marriage (Exactly how many of you have been divorced? That's so traditional!), but to deny people who love one another the blessing of a civil recognition of union? For shame!

At least, on the local level, my city voted down a proposed community of residential high-rises (the proposal was for more buildings taller than the office buildings currently in San Jose, CA). The city already has a a 30% residential vacancy rate, and most of the proposed units would have required an income at least $40,000 higher than the median family income in my city.

For those of you who aren't Americans, who would be willing to sponsor me and mine for immigration? I'm only about half kidding - if the country is swinging so conservative that there may be a gay backlash, what will happen to an open polyamorist like me?