From this point I refuse to feel emotional about any of this shit [View All]

[maggrwaggr]

I'm sick of having my emotions tweaked every which direction by all these different folks who have absolutely no compulsion to stoop to the lowest, nastiest form of human behavior possible in order to only do one thing --- stir up people's emotions.

Prison pictures -- OUTRAGE! It's immediately a partisan issue by the republicans.

A snuff video of a nasty beheading is the response to this. What are we supposed to feel -- OUTRAGE! Even worse than the first OUTRAGE! Which the republicans are now jumping on as a partisan issue again -- if you don't feel OUTRAGE over this, you are a horrible person and you should be ashamed and LOOK AT HOW THOSE LIBERALS AREN'T FEELING OUTRAGE ---- anyone who doesn't feel OUTRAGE over the fact that the liberals aren't OUTRAGED should be OUTRAGED.

The fucking hate-mongering in this country has to stop.

My own father and I can't have a conversation anymore remotely about anything political anymore because we'll start yelling at each other.

Why? Because of the professional hate-mongering-for-profit that's been going on now for TWENTY FOUR FUCKING YEARS that I've been counting it, ever since Reagan was elected and Rush Limbaugh came into his own weird little power.

It just gets worse and worse and worse ......

9/11 -- WE HATE THE PEOPLE WHO DID THIS. We have them so much we're going to attack countries that didn't even have anything to do with it! Who cares!? They're all horrible people who want to see us dead! We HATE THEM!

If you don't agree with us, WE HATE YOU!

Well we respond by saying "if you're gonna kill people indiscriminately who have not attacked us you are SCUM! You are MURDERS AND WAR CRIMINALS!"

They look at that and say "LOOK AT HOW ANGRY YOU ARE! YOu ARE HORRIBLE!"

I mean it's just gotten to the point that now people are buggering innocent people up the ass with broomsticks and chopping off each other's heads and WHY????

TO ELICIT AN EMOTIONAL RESPONSE. NO OTHER REASON.

Well, I, for one, refuse to play that game anymore.

I refuse to have an emotional response to anything now, no matter how nasty, how sadistic, how brutal or criminal.

I am done being manipulated.

It is time to throw out the thought --- HOW DO WE END THIS?

HOW DOES THE COUNTRY HEAL?

IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE?

Or do we let ourselves be destroyed in the fires of our own creation?

Thanks for letting me rant.