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In reply to the discussion: KRUGMAN: "Bush lied us into war. Let’s repeat that: he lied us into war." [View all]calimary
(81,238 posts)I think pretty much every one of us here on DU came here, or stumbled here, looking for that kind of refuge. And every one of us, I'll bet, was stunned to discover that - much to the contrary of what the media and most of the politicians and everyone else who supposedly "knew better" was telling us - we were NOT alone. We were NOT alone thinking and feeling the way we did - about what amounted to a frickin heist. This was a mugging! They frickin' STOLE THE ELECTION. And there's good reason to believe they stole it from Kerry, too, four years after they stole it from Al Gore.
Face it. What's increasingly true anymore is that the bad guys can't win unless they cheat, or in one way or other successfully manage to get around the system in place. That's the ONLY way they can win the big one anymore. Because the numbers are no longer with them. And the only way they can win the race is to fix the race.
This place was an oasis. A life raft. A drop of healing, cooling water to the parched and dry. It really did keep many of us from grinding our teeth into powder during those horrible years. At least, we had each other. And we kept each other company, and buoyed each other up.