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kentuck

(110,950 posts)
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 09:07 PM Apr 2013

Does anyone here remember the helpless feeling after the election of 2000?

When the Supreme Court gave the election to George W Bush, rather than take the time to count the votes? I remember it well.

That is why I started writing and posting on the Democratic Underground. I thought we could make a difference. I had no other choice.

I was intent on calling out the lies and holding Bush and the crooks responsible. For a while, I felt no one was listening. Then DU started reaching more and more people. We would not be silenced. We would be the 10% or less that defended this country and the Democratic Party.

Personally, I felt redemption when Barack Obama was elected in 2008, although I was very disappointed that John Kerry failed to get elected in 2004. But we fought on.

Not once did I think that DU could not make a difference - that it was just another small discussion board on the Internet. There was no way to measure the truth in numbers. It had a value that was immeasurable.

I, and many others here, have seen the changes over the years. We did not take it lightly that our Constitution was being abused, that we were torturing people, that votes were being stolen, that our young people were dying in wars based on lies.

I felt like DU was responsible for much of the change that happened after the election of 2000 and I shudder to think where we would be today if we had not circled the wagons and educated as many people as we possibly could. For those that do not remember those feelings after the election of 2000, you cannot know the true meaning of the democraticunderground.

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Does anyone here remember the helpless feeling after the election of 2000? (Original Post) kentuck Apr 2013 OP
I feel like Sisyphus. How much longer must we keep pushing this Cleita Apr 2013 #1
It was a tough time Cleita... kentuck Apr 2013 #3
And yet the exact same court that selected Bush, misinterpreted the 2nd amendment, and gave... onehandle Apr 2013 #2
HUGE K & R !!! WillyT Apr 2013 #4
The penalty for knowing the fire of truth is the feeling of your liver being eaten out each day. HereSince1628 Apr 2013 #5
That drink will be hemlock for me if I can't survive. Cleita Apr 2013 #7
I remember oh so well. William769 Apr 2013 #6
yup..... madrchsod Apr 2013 #8
I remember G_j Apr 2013 #9
I remember, kentuck. madfloridian Apr 2013 #10
I had to pull my car over. I couldn't drive Greybnk48 Apr 2013 #11
Kentuck I am with you... TRoN33 Apr 2013 #12

kentuck

(110,950 posts)
3. It was a tough time Cleita...
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 09:18 PM
Apr 2013

I remember the sweat on your brow as we worked together. We were an army, armed with a mission.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
2. And yet the exact same court that selected Bush, misinterpreted the 2nd amendment, and gave...
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 09:12 PM
Apr 2013

...Citizens United a pass since then.

We will be stuck with a Right-Wing Corporate SCOTUS for many years.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
5. The penalty for knowing the fire of truth is the feeling of your liver being eaten out each day.
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 09:23 PM
Apr 2013

Knowing is painful. But can we know, and then choose to be ignorant? That takes a drink stronger than alcohol.


Cleita

(75,480 posts)
7. That drink will be hemlock for me if I can't survive.
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 09:39 PM
Apr 2013

I'm hanging in there, making a little money on the side pet sitting, but with gas and food prices going up, it get's tougher. If this CPI thing goes through and I fall through the cracks, I will end it all and I'm sure many other seniors will give up too and do the same.

William769

(55,124 posts)
6. I remember oh so well.
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 09:25 PM
Apr 2013

I also remember being a Gay man during the theft of the Century (so far at least) the gloom & doom in the pit of my stomach.

This was a very perilous time for the LGBT community with the * cabal running the Country.

madrchsod

(58,162 posts)
8. yup.....
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 10:32 PM
Apr 2013

found this place from a link at buzzflash right after the election.the only time i have`t check in was when i was in the hospital or on vacation.

G_j

(40,366 posts)
9. I remember
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 10:41 PM
Apr 2013

I know just what you are saying, like a vortex of information, many bright lights shining through the darkness, working to expose the truth for anyone to see.

Greybnk48

(10,148 posts)
11. I had to pull my car over. I couldn't drive
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 10:55 PM
Apr 2013

when they announced they were halting the recount. I wish I had found DU then. I didn't find this site until November 2004--another dark time.

 

TRoN33

(769 posts)
12. Kentuck I am with you...
Sat Apr 6, 2013, 12:24 AM
Apr 2013

The memory of the election in year of 2000 and 2004 still stingy enough for me to be mad about it. But when I want my own life to be good, the life goes on. As both W. Bush and Cheney claimed that the history will judge them very good, actually no, the history will judge them very harsh and brand these two men to be the truest terror of the innocents in Afghanistan and Iraq along with aboard in the America too. Democraticunderground also defend Americans' rights to protest after Cheney attempted to brand any form of protests to be terrorism and requested that the protesters to be held infinitely without the trial and due processes.

Cheney even admits that he would do it all again in Iraq show how cold person he can be because he doesn't give any rats about young soldiers killed for nothing but the greed of Halliburton and few other corporations.

W. Bush will be judge by the history as the most inept modern President ever to sit in the Oval Office.

That famous letter from soldier to W. Bush and Cheney are very powerful message than both of these idiots has sent to us for 8 long years of terror from W. Bush and his administration. W. Bush's actions in the first four years should have not got re-elected yet Karl Rove flip the Ohio vote which W. Bush barely won.

Thank you, DemocraticUnderground for being one of the fewest last line of the defense.

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