When are we going to get Angry?

[Why Syzygy]

The war surges. Nothing is accomplished but more killings on all sides.
Is it really a civil war or has the place been taken over by road gangs?
WHO is killing our soldiers? Are you feeling yourself getting a bit peeved at *someone* who is killing US Citizens? (I know they signed up. This is not about that.)

Reading this from LBN >
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2798123
Allegedly Iraq is upset that the coalition took their prisoners away from them. That was probably not the correct thing to do if the mission is an independent Iraq.

The people will not be led by violence. I wonder if * notices. He certainly must notice that he has been able to get away with ANYTHING for, well his entire life, and most especially the past six years. He has suffered not one repercussion. Had to shift around some staff. What a bother.

We are plenty angry at him. None of us really knows who is involved in the *war*. I'm beginning to get angry at whoever is KILLING our people. Don't you wish they would just stop it?
What if they *surrender* to their own government? We will leave. Won't we?

People are now saying there is no military solution to Iraq. Of course there never was, but that isn't mentioned. We all know who got us into this nightmare. Now, who is responsible for us still being involved? Do the foreign fighters bear ANY responsibility? Is there a sinister ploy to attempt to turn we, the public, against them?

[pretzel4gore]

1. our anger is like a mine, fulla gold...

they exploit it because they have near perfected the echo chamber news reinforcement system devised by joe goebbels etc and taken to news heights of silliness by the foxnews/cnn 'high cabal' which, well, has its fun running planet earth into the ground(?)
would you believe junyer's got a brain tumor? not yet? well they're working on it, you can be sure.

[Why Syzygy]

2. Exactly.

I don't enjoy being manipulated.

[LWolf]

3. Anger? We've been angry.

The problem is that too many people see anger as the wrong kind of weapon. They think that if "we" get angry enough to throw temper tantrums, make threats, etc., that the leadership will be fearful enough of our temper tantrums to back down.

That's just not the way it works. The anger of a bully accomplishes nothing good. It's grandstanding, and the opposition is not the least affected by it.

If anger is to have any effect at all, it can't be muddied by temper tantrums and bullying. It has to burn clean. It has to serve to keep "us" focused on actual action.

Are you angry enough to vote for a non-corporate appointed candidate? The war is all about money and power. Those in power are fed and supported by the money of those with more power. What are you willing to do to cut that off?

Are you willing to quit excusing Democrats, and the Democratic Party, for complicity? Are you willing to bring and end to the circular justifications for non-action? Are you willing to replace corrupt corporate shills within the party with those not owned by tptb? Are you willing to nominate a clean, no-strings-attached candidate for '08?

If not, then your anger is impotent. Good for an emotional scene or two; good for consolidating groupthink; but not worth a hair's bit of change.