I have finally gotten there

[blues90]

After seeing bush on Larry King last night which was bad enough , by the way , what was with the camera panning back to show off Kings new set of cowboy boots , bow-tie , suspenders and these boots , perhaps a gift straight out of the bush ranch .

After that comedy of the insane aired I wake up to bush on one of his so called listening speeches in chicago , Not long into this joke and even though reporters played hardball it was apparent the listening part was bush talking and we listen to the same old worn out rhetoric , nothing new at all , bush filibuster as usual .

Now I will admit just short of two years ago I knew about the wrong doings that got us into Iraq and I knew about the religious takeover and knew damn well we were headed for a rough ride . However still working I remained ignorant to much of the news , I had not the time to get online and search for the truth and more in depth research ,I also was not listening to AAR . I knew these things existed but you need time to indulge .

Now that I am filled with info what I find is no matter which way I turn I see america has ended as the america I knew for so very long . The hope of bringing it back seems lost . Yes we have many great people who put in so much effort and time and this is my hope , that these people will prevail and wake up america . You must look deep and through the mimic to find and then accept and face the true horror of the loss .

How to remain sane , how to hold onto hope and how to feel america is not a strange land . To look around you would never suspect a thing has changed , people seem to go on as before , the morning begins and people are off to work ,the tv news and shows continue for their viewing pleasure and the stores operate with revolving doors and the flow of products continue , all appears the same on the outside .

I know I am far from alone , I know thousands suffer but they are out of sight . I know all these things and I hear all the lies and their results but there is this silent stillness which is what frightens me . I realize the loss of america , become ill , loose your job , suffer one fate and then you see the condition of the silent american .

I fear that in order for the people of america to fully realize the damage is only for them to experience the loss first hand and many many more will suffer before we are not silent anymore .

[KoKo]

1. Well said...and it becomes increasingly unbearable for those of us

who "know" and realize that what we've lost...So many Americans will never remember because they are too young or too busy to know any different.

This latest push by the Bushco's for complete lockdown of Media by spreading more propaganda, appearing giving speeches every day while all around him corporate and government corruption reigns has just about got me over the edge.

So much of what those of us who woke up after Selection 2000 have been doing to stop this "train wreck" seems not to be paying off. But, then that's what THEY want us to think. For us to just give up and stop trying feeling we are vanquished. It's hard to keep having hope...but we must. Or, just leave it and find something else to do away from it all...but what would one do and where would go to ever be able to get away from it completely when one has the terrible knowledge of what they have done facing us everywhere. :shrug:

[fearthem]

2. Been looking for a report -- thanks for sharing -- I couldn't stomach it.

[ginnyinWI]

3. people are waking up.

It's been so much slower than all of us would have wanted, but they are. You can only fool people for so long, IMO.

Take the McCarthy era as a model. That America was also not the America we know and want. It lasted a while, as long as people bought the propaganda and fear, but eventually those against it found enough strength to fight it and over come it. And after that, America lurched forward, during the Sixties, almost as if it needed to make up for lost time.

I'm an optimist. Most people are for progress and against fear, whether they realize it or not. The more who realize it, the more who will work to end this craziness. We have to keep on hoping and keep on fighting, and one way or another, I think this ship will get back on an even keel.

[bdamomma]

4. I agree with your last sentence

"I fear that in order for the people of america to fully realize the damage is only for them to experience the loss first hand and many many more will suffer before we are not silent anymore" .

[patrice]

5. I knew it wasn't the same America I'd lived in for the past 50+ years on

March 20, 2003. I was un-employed at the time, so I knew about PNAC and I had been following the details of what was happening with Iraq, but I really thought Bush was actually 50:50, weighing it all out and that he had not actually pre-determined the decision. I cried most of that night.

The only thing to do is to work with a local group of like-minded neighbors to do whatever we can and hope that it all adds up to mature constructive change.