The Bush/Cheney Assault on America...lest we forget
Have you successfully survived 2000-2008? If so, how?
I just read the blog article on Huff Po by Elizabeth Holtzman* (posted at DU by Kpete): "Impunity for the Bush Administration Won't Last." http://www.democraticunderground.com/101612856
*Elizabeth Holtzman's book is "Cheating Justice: How Bush and Cheney Attacked the Rule of Law, Plotted to Avoid Prosecution, and What We Can Do About It."
Reading this article made my stomach churn as it usually does with any mention of Bush/Cheney. I want to believe there will be retribution for their crimes but I can't really buy it. This country is so corrupt. I feel like I am still in shell shock. Not sure I can yet even call myself a survivor of the Bush era.
Questions:
Friends, Survivors, Witnesses to the Crimes --re. the terrible Bush years, what are your thoughts at this point about that whole period? How are you doing now?--I mean mentally, emotionally, spiritually as well as economically (tho of course it's all related).
Were you sufficiently abused to want to see the perpetrators receive some kind of punishment?
Do you think we can turn this country into a true democracy after all the Bush era reversals?
Did those insanely negative times help you realize what is at stake better and make you a better fighter, or did it make you feel more hopeless? In your view, what is the worst thing the Bush years did to us collectively or individually?
Am I right to be pessimistic about the possibility of addressing the damage that has been done?
(It's the "...And What We Can Do About It" part of the title of Holtzman's book that I have a problem with...it just seems so quaint, the idea that "we" can do anything. I almost don't want to read what she says because it could just be more useless pap in light of the lack of democratic avenues left to us.
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