Your Anger Button (poll)

[Stinky The Clown]

Here are some not so random words. Which word pushes your anger button the hardest?

[simonm]

1. 911 & Katrina

Bush was more than complicit.

[Skittles]

2. watching bush inc wax on about "spreading democracy"

when they couldn't even get a terrified little girl off a bridge in New Orleans

[swimmernsecretsea]

3. I can't vote

Unless you add one that says "all of the above."

[anitar1]

4. Every one of them push my button, but I had to go with the Patriot ac

Act as it impacts all of us.

[BlueIris]

16. Are there people not 'impacted' by the other things mentioned?

What?

[Eugene]

5. Iraq War, Patriot Act, and the whole BushCo War on Terra. n/t

[f-bush]

6. It was hard to pick

but I chose Iraq War, because I think that is what shrub used to channel the manufactured fear index he drove up, and used it to make himself look tough and presidential to all the simpletons out there. Ultimately, I think that is what kept the 2004 vote close!

[undergroundpanther]

7. My anger button

goes off over torture.
Over bullies,manipulators, and abuse of power and trust.
I don't care who does it.
It's wrong and it pisses me off.

[threadkillaz]

8. Katrina.

The National Debt is my pissed button.
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

[bluesbassman]

9. Patriot Act = Traitor Act

This pushes my button on so many levels, but most of all because it's a bipartisan outrage. That any Democrat could have voted for this abomination is beyond comprehension. And I'm getting sick of the "live to fight another day" mantra. At some point real soon - we won't have any more days!

[expatriot]

10. For me, Katrina was/is the epitome and crescendo of the Bush tragedy. nt

[Viva_La_Revolution]

11. close, between Katrina and Torture in my name...

the Iraq Invasion is destablizing the entire middle east, causing even more death, affecting more than just our own citizens and is closest to Torture, so that's what I picked.

[WildEyedLiberal]

12. Republican

They stand for everything on your list and everything else evil in this country.

[Random_Australian]

13. Strangely enough I'm never angry...

Don't get me wrong, I feel many unpleasant things about the drongo Republicans and those smarmy git Liberal bastards (Edit: This refers to the Australian Right Wing party! That's really what they're called!)

But anger is just not one of them.

I just want to see things changed. (Not that I blame you for getting angry)

[Stinky The Clown]

14. I hinted in the poll my own personal Anger Button ......

.... which is the whole religion-culture-family values-'middle America' thing they played so well and continue to play.

They are intentionally dividing this country to conquer it. I have fallen prey to it as have many of you. It is my view that most everything in my poll is, arguably, a result of that manufactured division even more than an issue in and of itself.

If we have anger buttons, it is because they have pitted us against each other. We are no longer able to pull together as a nation. Yet, until very recently, that spirit of shared sacrifice and shared burden was what made our nation so great. From the inception of the country, to the Great Depression, to WWII ......

True enough, there were other times of great national divide, but was any of it based so strongly on intangibles? The Civil War was about **issues** that could be debated and, yes, fought over. More recently, people of my generation fought and took to the streets over the Viet Nam war.

But the divide today is visceral, deeply ingrained, and about nothing that is an issue, really. They can't even classify us as to our stances because there are so many small issues that, as a lump, have become a gaping maw of a chasm that separates us from each other.

Soccer Moms and NASCAR Dads. Eastern Liberal Elites and California Hippies. Labels by the score. Pro Choice and Pro Life. Each set of yin-yang labels a small divide. Collectively, a massive cleaving.

My anger is directed against the truly evil manipulators who caused us to be so. And I'm not even sure who they are .......

I mourn for my country that once was but may never be again. My work often takes me to our Nation's Capitol, where I see the grandeur of the public buildings and feel incredibly sad to see them as they are now. Once the sybols of freedom and liberty, they are now armed fortresses with exceedingly limited access. The great artwork in their halls, commissioned by the likes of FDR during the Depression as a way to support even artists, now cut off from public view. Metal detectors and black Chevy Suburbans. Men with ear buds. Sniper posts on the roofs. Trailers with camouflage paint and sniffer gear parked all around town. Cement assault barriers.

America: Home of the Brave and Land of the Free.

I miss you dearly.

[Jamastiene]

15. You forgot "September the 11th."

It gripes my ass that msm relates every story including the price of tea in China to September the 11th. Damn that fateful day.

[Totally Committed]

17. K A T R I N A ! ! !

It has forever shaped the way I view America, my Party, their Party, our government, and the still-great divides that exist in matters of race and class within this society.

It angered me... devastated me, in fact. It was a true watershed event for me.

TC

[baldguy]

18. Katrina

Even the most totalitarian regimes in history would do their best to alleviate the suffering of their subjects after a natural disaster.

Bush went on vacation.

[BlueIris]

19. South Dakota. Fat, slimy assholes.

&*$^&@#^%~!P(!@!!

[radio4progressives]

20. all of the above... (didn't vote - no "all above" option)

[DemGirl7]

21. ok, I voted for Republican, but...

that because I blame Republicans/conservatives for all of the things listed. I use to be able to keep my cool around Republicans/Conservatives, but since the Alito confirmation, I've been one uber pissed off person, and I don't think I'll ever be the same.

[blondeatlast]

22. Damn tough poll. In the end, Katrina pushed me over. nt

[TankLV]

23. The 2000 Coup.

Everything else fails by comparison.

I want bunkerboy and the repukes out of President Gore's House!

[SteppingRazor]

24. I had to say Iraq War over Katrina...

while the handling of Katrina was certainly a travesty, it was the bungling of a natural disaster, not starting an elective war.

It's the difference between a doctor who can't even stop the bleeding from a serious cut, versus a man who goes out and shoots someone himself

[Dora]

25. Homophobia, only because it's the most likely to come up in my family.

When there are so many wonderful choices, it's just too hard to choose.

[BlueIris]

26. Ouch.

Good luck surviving any future trauma as regards that issue. That can be rough.

[JudyM]

27. Election Fraud is my number 1, bigtime.

Followed closely by media apathy/ineptitude and inauthentic rethug congressional lies, lies, lies.

Goes to the fundamental unfairness of the whole process. If * was legally, ethically voted in by people who got the straight story on the issues, I'd actually feel a little better about everything else.