What I hate most about BushCo and all the rest of the wingnuts

[Cyrano]

is the amount of venom that I walk around with every hour of every day.

I don't remember living like this before. Even during the Reagan era, I viewed our government as having many ill-intentioned people being led by an amiable imbecile. But I wasn't consumed with the hatred that I now have.

Cheney is going to have an operation and I couldn't care less whether the son-of-a-bitch lives or dies. A mere 4 1/2 years ago, I would have considered myself a horrible person for harboring such a thought. Today, I couldn't care whether any or all of them live or die.

Perhaps I'm just mirroring their feelings toward us. Maybe stolen elections, Iraq, torture, the shredding of our Constitution, their endless hypocrisy, and now Katrina, have finally taken their toll on my conscience.

Sometimes, I'll spend a week away from the news (whether radio, TV, print, or online), but it doesn't help. What frightens me most is the belief that too many people feel as I do. And that makes for a very dangerous powder keg.

[BlueJac]

1. That feeling is spreading faster than the flu virus!

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Polarizing people is how all demagogues work, also the mob

[CrispyQ]

3. I feel the same frustration with my constant anger, Cyrano.

I'm getting better at partitioning it from my personal life so I'm not a total bitch at home, but it has been a challenge!

We need to find a way to harness that anger into something constructive, although I always groan when I hear people say that because what many of us need (or me at least!) is some direction & leadership -- a sense of working on common goals instead of the hit & miss feeling I get when I do something on my own.

A wise DUer suggested that the DU activist group be divided into smaller groups that act & respond to categories of issues that need our attention. I think it's a good idea. Perhaps the best place to start is by identifying a few (5-7?) major categories of the issues we face.

Ahh, heck, I'm just throwing ideas out there to try to vent the frustration. What ideas do you have?

[Cyrano]

11. I'm a total blank on that one, CrispyQGirl.

But I've never been a "joiner," no less an organizer. (Although I was stupid enough to get drafted back when.) I think it was Grouch Marx who said, "I'd never be a part of any organization that would have me as a member." -- Hey, what do you know. Your question pushed me into a non-venomous moment. Thank You.

[buff2]

4. I feel the same way as you do

I've never felt this way before in my life. I never hated anyone,I got along with most people and those I didn't get along with,I stayed away from. The "internets" and the media whores have been the down fall of this country.Growing up,I remember watching the NEWS. We didn't see the partisan mud-slinging that goes on today and that's why I wish I could go back to those days.I remember meeting strangers and sharing a joint or two,laughing and having a great time. People were so laid back and carefree....I miss those days so much. Now,in today's FReeptard society,you have a better chance of getting your head blown off instead of making new friends,just because of a damn politician who could give a shit less about ANY of us. It's a shame.

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[leftofthedial]

6. I had the same "don't care if they all die" feeling today

I knew I should regret feeling that way--that I shouldn't feel that way.

But I do. I have never hated like this before.

[MsConduct]

7. Don't feel like the Lone Ranger. It's hard to have your

adrenaline pumping 50,000 gallons per hour. Instead of fight or flight we are stuck right where we are and the hopeless/helpless feeling would make even the most sweet natured person to want to explode!

They are a hateful nonhuman lot and we real humans don't know how to deal with them. A huge miracle would be welcome.

Peace

:dilemma:

[Jim Warren]

8. rant mode barely contained

You're so right with this.
Last night, listening to NPR and the suck-up handmaiden to bushCo. that it has become, like all the MSM, and learning of rove(fucking rove!!!)getting the nod to hand out the no bid contracts, to the exclusion of many local companies and workers, to rebuild NOLA, I began a rant that withered the attention of my 16yo son. Poor kid. These fuckers never miss a beat in turning anything, a tragedy or misery or whatever, into their fucking agenda that obviously is designed to bankrupt the government and starve off any any any semblance of a balanced social and caring society.

..............never been so pissed at a group of political operatives in my life

[opihimoimoi]

9. You are not alone.....and forget Miricles...we have a lotta work to do...

Its gonna take courage, education, astuteness building, passion, and determination to get the job done...what job??

Returning Sanity and Reason to the Gov't....

[M155Y_A1CH]

10. Wow, did anyone see that!

That was the fastest freeper bust I've ever seen!
(see post 5) Checkout his users profile y'all!

[HughMoran]

12. I know the feeling... I was out of town a few days earlier,

without internet access, and felt a lot better. I sometimes I wish I was the type who could be ignorant and blissful *sigh*

[Cyrano]

15. Hi HughMoran. Welcome to DU. And there are many days on which

I share your wish for ignorance and blissfulness.

But every time I get that feeling, I think, "Ummm, wouldn't that make me eligible to be a member of the Bush family?"

[HughMoran]

17. Not necessarily... But

there was a time right before the Gore election where i wasn't paying attention to any news or politics at all.

And I wasn't a Bushbot, but I didn't know all the things I need to know.

So ignorance and bliss won't make you repuke, but they will make you non-active and docile which in some ways does help the Bushco cause

:hi:

[Arugula Latte]

21. Welcome to DU!

BTW, love the screenname! :rofl:

:toast: :hi:

[HughMoran]

23. Thanks :)

I'm tempted to say that the below picture is of me, and I have changed my ways from how i was back then. I now see the light and no longer wear the US flag on my head, and mis-spell! But alas, that would be too good to be true for that guy to reform :D



:hi:

[CrispyQ]

24. LOL - he is the DU icon of stupidity!

Welcome to DU, HughMoran!

:hi:

[LongTomH]

13. I missed the news on this!

I hope the operation isn't a heart transplant. They'll have to handle his old, black heart as toxic waste!

[VPStoltz]

14. I have the same feeling, but for me...

it is in part because I just can't get my head around how incredible STUPID and HYPOCRITICAL his supporters show themselves to be. That he and his cadre are a bunch of megalomaniacal fuck-ups is overlooked by a great of the very people they are fucking over. I have come to not be able to even talk to anyone I know to be Repug.

[MissWaverly]

16. I went on an embarassing rant this morning

I am just so bummed out, I feel like the whole country is turning into a
"B" movie disaster flick. I just want our country to work again and
to be able to believe in the American Dream.

[AnneD]

18. It is a valid feeling...

Why?
1)We know the elections were stolen.
2)We know that many of the rights we use to enjoy have been taken from us.
3)We know the game and the rules have been just recently rigged and our children will never have the chances we did.
4)We are nothing but a tax unit (sheep) to these callous folks.

When people have no say in their lives either through a free press or voting etc. they become disenfranchised and marginalized. With this marginalization comes anger.

My dear friends, we have become Palestinians in Gaza, Jews in the ghetto, Indians on the reservation, slaves on the plantation. Anger is to be expected.

But the point is....how to channel this anger. I have said many a time that when Bush was re-elected that the Revolution starts now-and it will not be televised. If they win in this next election cycle....I fear it will not always be peaceful in our streets, but we will need to take to the streets in numbers to big to be ignored.

[Cyrano]

19. "... take to the streets in numbers too big to be ignored."

Marting Luther King drew over a million people to the mall in DC.

A few years later, students at Kent State were murdered with the unspoken blessings of Richard Nixon.

People in the streets can't defeat these people and never could.

It was Mao Tse Tung who said, "All power comes out of the barrel of a gun."

And the swine we're up against have quite a few guns at their disposal.

Just as an example, one modern army squad could have put an end to both the American and French revolutions.

We can't beat them that way. Nor should we even think of trying it. Most of the civilian dead in Iraq are women and children. Is that really the path you wish to follow?

[KansDem]

20. It's called "Election 2000itus"

It was pretty obvious that Reagan won in 1980 and 1984, so those of us who voted against him still recognized he was the POTUS (good or bad). We now know without any doubt that Gore won in 2000, but the election was stolen from him, and from the majority who voted for him. I don't think the neo-con fascists ever though about the damage they were doing when they took this course to political power. I know what you mean, though. It's difficult to feel compassion or empathy toward these people. They have committed so many evil and dastardly deeds (WMD lies, Iraq War lies, DSM, Plame outing, Katrina incompetence, those ones you've mentioned), that any one of them would be grounds for impeachment and imprisonment. However, they all have their roots in Election2000...

[tlsmith1963]

22. I Don't Care About Cheney, Either

If he died, I really wouldn't care. The less neocons around, the better.

Tammy
Who thinks we need genuine punk rock bands again, if only to tell the neocons to f-off

[CrispyQ]

25. Another thread with the same theme.

Don't know if you will find anything helpful, other than knowing that there are thousands out there feeling just like we do!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4803499

[Borgnine]

26. I hear you loud and clear.

I hate them for what they've made me become as much as I hate them for how they act themselves.