Keep on keepin' on.

[loveable liberal]

I come to DU because there isn't as much dissonance as there is on other posting sites. I've been to my beloved Minnesota Wild message board and it is rife with oil and war loving posters. I just don't have the gumption to battle these people anymore. I made the mistake of going on the Comcast message boards and found the make-up of Kool-aid drinking, flat earth society members to be about the same ratio.

So, I've decided to take a break. The sheer level of ego- and ethno-centric thought is overwhelming.

It appears that the bottom line is that we can never go home again. The rules have been permanently changed. Since Bush did away with the GPO he can now refuse to open e/mails that state that global warming is real. It reminds me of my Teamster representative that sends back an auto-reply to all e/mails sent to him. They say "do not trust the e/mail system". And when you try and call the guy he never calls back.

Dick Cheney continues to get rich based on conversations he had with energy producing executives. He is a public servant and yet refuses to provide the transcripts of what was said during those meetings.

George has lied us into a war where there may just be over a million dead people! Where is the outrage? The simple fact is that there is no outrage. I'm outraged but its not like I can leave my job to go scream and yell on a corner (which is what I should be doing). Its not like I can leave my kids without a dad for months on end to go raise hell in places where it should be raised.

The fact of the matter is that George Bush and his cronies crushed the notion of incrementalism. He got things done; the result of which is our situation now. Each and every corner he cut has resulted in disaster. And now neither side will be happy to return to the old ways of taking time to solve our problems. The big difference is that now we owe China our future and we act at the whim of Saudi Arabia who holds our economy in the palm of their hands.

It is not that we are incapable of greatness, the problem is that we are no longer willing to sacrifice what it takes to be great. I am just as guilty.

[dpbrown]

1. Maslow's hierarchy of needs

As long as the fundamentalists keep people hungry, there will never be an effective revolution.