1 Day Until 4 More Years

I heard Bill Clinton speak today, and for those 30 wonderful minutes, I didn't doubt for a second that Obama would still be our president Wednesday morning.

But now I'm scared. I'm terrified. I'm horrified that all that Obama has done for me (and for so many others) as a Hispanic, as a woman, as a student, as a human being will go undone in the next four years.

So I refuse.

I refuse to believe that equal pay won't be granted for equal work.

I refuse to believe that civil rights will be selectively granted.

I refuse to believe that we don't deserve universal health care -- that we should be the only developed nation without it.

I refuse to believe that women won't have the right to their own bodies –- rights to make their own decisions concerning abortions, birth control, etc. just because some white middle-aged asshole thinks he can better make them.

I refuse to believe that the (already steadily improving) economy will be fixed using trickle-down economics -- that illusion is more effective than arithmetic.

I refuse to believe that anyone but Obama will get the 270 electoral vote ticket to stay in the White House because I refuse to believe that we're that blind to what's sitting right in front of us.

I refuse to do anything but move forward.

Do you?