On election night former presidential staffer and now Harvard professor, David Gergen, said he didn't know whether or not millions of young people who'd given their hearts and souls to defeating President George W. Bush would now plunge into cynicism. Well, I don't consider myself a cynic, but for the next few days I'll grudgingly play the part. The only thing running in my mind is one word, "how?" How could a candidate win by only appealing to a nation's basest fears, rather than its highest hopes? How could a media who six years ago castrated one president for lying about a sexual encounter, let another president completely off the hook for countless lies about a war that's cost thousands of lives, not to mention billions of taxpayer dollars? How could voters I approached in four different states during this campaign, who've lost their jobs, healthcare and respect around the world be only driven to vote by a discriminatory gay marriage amendment? If Gergen was implying that there ought to be a silver lining in all this for me, it alludes me right now, because on Nov. 2, 2004, the alarm clock rang in the minds of some of the world's most apathetic and lazy citizens and they hit the snooze button, again.