Reply #100: Complete agreement [View All]

[OldAthena]

I have been thinking about how I felt and what I did after the 68 Democratic convention. For those of you too young ... that was a horror beyond horror. I hid in grad school and then got all hopeful that Watergate would change things. There was huge social unrest all over the world in '68.

Carter just couldn't fight the mess. It was too big and he had no weapons. And the Fascists got better at what they did. Look at the myth of Ronnie Raygun! Look at the insanity of Bush II. Look no draft for the stupid, inane wars. Now I believe it is too late. I think all 3 Democratic candidates are/were empty suits. It was just a game. And the game was to keep people watching and engaged and thinking something was actually going on. It wasn't. We know that now.

Now we are all exhausted and discouraged. Teabaggers also. The great unwashed of the country are being bulldozed. Same thing is happening in Britain and Italy.