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That just pegs it. I nominate that for the understatement of the year. Of COURSE she doesn't realize it. She's closer to the top than to the bottom. She hobknobs with other media people (who are as straitjacketed by the bush bias as she is - and who also have JOBS and good salaries and in some cases very good benefits), and her husband's circle of wealthy, high-powered, big-ticket, captains of industry and Wall Street types (who also aren't struggling to make ends meet and keep the wolves away from the door or worried about how they're going to put food on their families). Of COURSE she doesn't see it. Her beat doesn't even take her near the genuine folks out there coping in Realityland. She couldn't possibly know. She doesn't eat like they do. She doesn't shop like they do. She doesn't live like they do. She doesn't budget like they do. She doesn't struggle like they do. She doesn't come up short like they do. She doesn't endure fear and uncertainty like they do. She has no anger. Why on earth would she have any? Especially since she and her husband have benefited, financially, like gangbusters from the bush tax giveaways to the extra-rich. What would she know of the anger and disconnect?
She may very well find out on November 2nd. Assuming she has her eyes, ears, and her mind even halfway open.
Melissa, you are OUTSTANDINGLY correct! We ARE making a difference!!! Maybe just here on DU, too. Maybe it's only a little bit from here. But there are tons and tons and tons and tons of people around the country who are also doing their own little bit, in every way imagineable. There IS anger out there. Sheesh, I see it everywhere, myself. And it all adds up. If enough people do their own little bit, and don't give up hope, and keep working, and refuse to give up, eventually it all starts to converge and you reach a critical mass, and suddenly, you start to break through. Just think of the people who've broken out of prisons by digging, night after night after night, using just a spoon they stole from the mess hall.
Guys, do NOT for ONE MOMENT think that your efforts do not make a difference. THEY DO. The only way they don't - is if you give up.
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