Well, so much for my cautious pre-election optimism; it looks like Bush has narrowly won the U.S. Presidential election without cheating this time.

So now we have four more years of the Bush/Cheney Administration to look forward to. Four more years of:

• Divisive, simplistic, conservative Christian dogma;
  

• Bombastic isolationist American neo-imperialism;
• An incompetently-occupied Iraq with a growing bodycount;
  

• Global terrorism;
  

• Tax handouts for the rich, increasingly desparate poverty for the poor, and an ever-growing budget deficit for future generations to pay off;
  

• Chronic abuse of the environment;
  

• A nation divided.
  

Bollocks. This is even worse than the Thatcher years.