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You see, maybe we have become that, so angry and spiteful about the direction that our country has gone. And, I feel it too, a distinct feeling of claustrophobia as our rights begin to tighten, our freedoms become no longer free.
We have tried so much: rational,intelligent debate, protest, factual analysis and now raving and ranting. And, nothing works? Or so it seems. As a dear friend told me last week, remember the "Serenity Prayer." And, I look at my daughter, who is sixteen months old, and wonder what the hell is going to be here for her? The child of two college students, one of whom is graduated and having an extremely rough time finding a job. Our funds are minimal, but we would be better off if we did not have to pay off Bush's campaign debts to Shell, Exxon, Conoco and their ilk.
I have gone through the seven stages of grief for this country and now I'm beginning to wonder: is it even worth being saved anymore? Is it worth it when Rush, Hannity, Coulter, Ingram, O'Reilly and the rest of the morons dominate the TV and radio, meanwhile AAR is barely known outside of a collection of XM radio users. And, we are all liberal elites, living in New York, LA, or Boston, in our flat or high rise penthouse, sipping on Chabliss, listening to Mozart, reading Marx and Darwin. . . then for the listeners of Limbaugh to hear what he said: "I'm sitting in my posh, upper eastside penthouse, researching this story on the internet and will read it to you the listener." Like his audience cannot even read.
One person at a time is all we can do. And, ranting at each other on here all the time, mayn't help. But, I wonder what speaking to the masses would do. We could tell them that they are being exploited, but only to be accused of being communist, but, like my uncle said: "In the absence of hope, anything is possible."
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