I haven't been reading much political stuff here as I've been feeling overwhelmed by USA affairs for a while.
The more I read, the more it seems to me that it's just on a downward dangerous spiral and it's frustrating to argue with right-wing people who seem to see it so much differently. I can't understand why they aren't moved by what's going on and how they can condone the what seems to me to be blatant criminal and bigoted actions of the current administration. I'm not going to defend those statements, it's my opinion and I know the right-wingers are "true believers" when it comes to Bush, et al.
I'll be in the fray in other ways, but not on this board. It just makes me sick what's going on in this country and has been going on for decades. It's not that the Democrats are "salvation" either, in my (current) opinion. It's been likened to "coke or Pepsi" to choose between them. They just may not be so flagrant. It would seem they are the lesser of the two evils (which is still lesser!).
I'm just trying to adjust to the fact that I seem to live in a far different country than what I perceived I lived in. And the right-wingers' conviction that they are so correct, with no margin for even admitting the slightest indiscretion on the part of Bush is astounding to me.
It's not fair for me to make this post (hit and run ) and not defend it. So I won't. But then maybe I will. Who in the hell ever said things were fair? Ask any Iraqi who's had their country cluster-bombed and then told "we're your saviors." As if that were the best and only way to handle it "liberating" Iraq. What utter nonsense to any thinking person.
You know, with what I read about the current administration's and the neo-cons' policies towards:
- the environment,
- civil rights,
- gay people,
- women's rights,
- empire-building,
- space militarization,
- preventive, so-called pre-emptive war,
- social security,
- job outsourcing,
- job loss,
- big corporations,
- etc.,
I almost wish I didn't have children or grandchildren to worry about. It would just be me. I really hope things aren't as dire as they seem. Even that the right-wingers would be right. But I don't think so. And I worry about my descendants' futures. People are already suffering from the greatest loss of jobs since the depression. It used to be that going to college was the answer to a secure future, but now it's the higher tech jobs being outsourced. I don't know the answers--just that the Bush Cabal is not the answer--unless you're rich.
In fact, I can now understand the appeal better of the JW fantasy that god is going to come and take care of all the wicked governments, etc. How nice it would be to swaddle myself in a fairy tale that all would turn out well and I wouldn't have to worry. But those days are over, since I took the red pill, lol.
The only reason I'm posting this is I don't want to give the wrong impression that my oppostion to the Bushites has changed. I'm just tired of pissing spitting into the wind, lol!
Oops there goes my blood pressure.I hope that a better way is coming this November. In the interest of my mental health, I'm taking a break from the political subjects on this board.
I'm sure others on this board feel the same way, don't you?
Peacefully yours,
Pat