Does anyone else get the feeling that....

[GOPFighter]

...the only people that matter in America are white, wealthy, businessmen who give lip service to God, and are contemptuous of the poor? Yes, every once in awhile a person of color or a woman makes it into the inner circle, but look at our Supreme Court, look at our Congress, look at our President (sorry), look at the people who lobby congress, hobnob with them, steal from the treasury (Halliburton, et. al.)

America is becoming their country. The rest of us feel less and lees welcome here.

At least I do.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

1. We shouldn't have to feel this way.

That's what freedom of speech, et. al. are for. We have to fight for the country--because it's OUR country, too.

[Amy6627]

3. That is why we must do everything in our power to oppose

John Roberts. We need to contact Patrick Leahy 888-818-6641 and beg him to vote against John Roberts.

Roberts has upheld the decision that says it's ok to hold US Citizens indefinitely without charges or access to council. He went to Florida in 2000 and help orchestrate the group to stop counting votes and get B*sh appointed. He is part of the Federalist Society, a group that wants to end civil liberties.

This administration would not have nominated him if he was not behind their agenda 1000%. This administration is driving the country like they stole it, because they DID, twice! They are trying to get as much damage done as fast as they can, Roberts is one of THEM!

[BlueEyedSon]

2. The rich are using the government to steal your money.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4879175

[castiron]

4. thanks for this post. Every time I hear

someone else say it, it makes me feel better. I live in Texas, and you talk about not feeling welcome. It's more like you end up feeling invisible. There's a majoritarian (however slim) aggression that throbs like a disease. You are either with us (ie, Christian, given to public pukings about "prayer" and pro-business) or you our sworn enemy. It's the pro-biz fundamentalism that really scares me. That shit's gonna be the death of us.

[CrispyQ]

5. America is not a country,

it's a corporation.

Heard that on a TV show of all places.

[Straight Shooter]

12. "The government exists to serve corporations.

The people exist to serve government."

I don't know who originally said that, but it's the truest thing I've ever read.

[newswolf56]

6. Absolutely right -- and John Edwards is the only Democrat who dares...

talk about what is happening. But even he is not outspoken enough. I yearn for the day a Democrat will speak the real truth:

"The Bush Administration represents the GOP, the global oligarchy party, the party of obscene wealth and unlimited power for the wealthy: the selfsame Republican Party whose savagely wealth-supremacist policies have murdered so very many Americans, whether in the Triangle Shirt Waist fire a century ago, or today in New Orleans or Iraq. If you are a working American who is not part of the corporate oligarchy (and particularly if you are increasingly feeling the economic pinch of these ever-worsening times), you need to understand that every Republican on earth is not merely a member of an opposing political party but is also your sworn personal enemy: the storm-trooper of an ideology ever more brazenly dedicated to the principle that wealth grants omnipotence, and that all the rest of us who are not wealthy should either be enslaved or exterminated."

No Democrat has yet dared speak so frankly -- not since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But imagine if one did. Hence my support for Edwards: the only Democrat today who seeks to return the Party to the principles of FDR and the New Deal, the only candidate who dares address (even obliquely) the dreadful fact that -- unless there is radical political change -- the awful reality we see in New Orleans today will be the reality of all America tomorrow.

But as I said at the beginning, even Edwards does not go far enough: America is awakening, yet none seem able to voice the hurt and anger in America's heart.

[caledesi]

7. Ya think? (heavy sarcasm) nt

[smirkymonkey]

8. Guess what? They're outnumbered.

And the rest of us who don't fall into that demographic are getting damn sick and tired of the status quo.

[JesterCS]

9. reminds me of

one of my star wars books where they refer the imperials system of advancement.. as long as you arent in the non-HuMan you're ok.. in other words

Human, a Man. otherwise you're screwed.. just switch human with Caucasian.

Eerily similiar =p

[AnnieBW]

10. What do you mean "becoming"?

It always was the country of rich, white men who give lip service to Christianity!

[GOPFighter]

11. You make a good point

But I came of age in the 60s and 70s, and there was a sense of inclusion back then. Americans back then cheered as Blacks, Hispanics and women made historic achievements in business and politics. Back then we felt a genuine compassion for the poor. We wanted our tax dollars to go to programs that helped minorities and the poor. We were making progress until Reagan came along. That's why conservatives worship him.

I really miss those days...