I will probably do the avoid-the-polls-in-disgust thing this year. I have voted in every presidential election (and almost all the congressional elections) since I turned 18, but what is the point this time? Dean is going to win the primaries, and lose to Bush because people are blind to the wool being pulled over their eyes and too stupid to realize what they are losing. And it will only get worse in a Bush second term.

I have completely lost faith in my country and its people in the last year. That is a hard thing to lose, and it has helped make 2003 one of the worst years of my life. I really don't see 2004 being any better, and I have no hope anymore that this country will come to its senses anytime soon. I hope when we do it is not too late.