Angry? Oh, maybe a little...

[Mythsaje]

Condemn me for being part of the "angry left" if you will (the whole 'leftist' smear is so 20th Century anyway--there hasn't been a real relevant "leftist" movement in this country since the 1930s), but I'll be damned if I'll let you accuse me of being angry without a reason.

In the past twelve years the Regressives have attacked our whole system like a pack of rabid rats tearing bloody chunks from the body politick and washing it down with the blood of the patriots who died to give us our freedom in the first place. Would be tyrants, each and every one of them, so caught up in the fever of greed for money and power that the foundation on which this country was built, the ideals that it claimed, are as meaningless to them as the history of the rest of the world they scorn.

Damn right I'm angry. I'm angry every time one of the shrieking pundits accuses me of being a traitor because I believe in the original vision of America as a shining beacon of hope for the world. I'm angry every time I hear a lie come from those we elect to tell us the truth. I'm angry every time another young man or woman falls in a hot, dusty place across the ocean because our 'leaders' have neither the moral courage nor the decency to stand up for them and us alike.

I'm angry because the media has failed to do its job, leaving it up to people like me to try to reach out to those who will listen. I'm angry because this abandonment has left me faced with people who say "where's your proof?" when it should be as plain on the nose on their face. They swallow lies as if they were wines of the finest vintage, and choke on truth as if it were the bloated, maggot filled corpse of a rat left on the doorstep by the neighbor's cat.

I still debate them on occasion, simply because it behooves us to spread truth whenever possible, whenever the attempt doesn't put your very sanity in danger. Because, make no mistake, the world teeters wildly every time you put forth the truth only to have some oblivious fellow citizen declaim your words as those of a fool or, worse yet, 'partisan hack.'

They say "you offer me opinion with no proof to back it up.""How much goddam proof do you need?" I want to yell. "Why the HELL are we in Iraq? Huh? Because they had WMDs? Because Saddam was an asshole? Because we wanted to give Democracy to people who've never shown they had any real interest in it? Do you even KNOW?"

The regressive agenda is to eliminate all those things that has made America a land of opportunity...slashing wildly at anything that might improve the lot of the less fortunate. For the regressive movement seems to be made up of two kinds of people--those who are already rich, and those who wish fervantly to become the type of person who can grind another human into the dirt just for the shits and giggles of it.

There is NO such thing as bootstrap levitation, you assholes! People find success in life through the support and encouragement of their neighbors. A person who looks out for him or her self first belongs to no community--for those who would call that person brethren would be the type to knife him or her in the back the very moment it becomes more convenient than guarding that same back, and steal even the fillings out of his or her teeth just to make a quick buck in the process.

They who despise their fellow man, and seek only to gain advantage from them, deserve nothing more than scorn. For they steal not only THINGS, but also the very dignity that lies behind the definition of humanity.

The regressive agenda is the very epitome of that which is anti-human. It is like a cancer in our midst, a destructive force that turns our very being against itself. And it feeds on fear and hatred and greed. Fear of the unknown, of the strange, hatred of those who are in some way different, and greed...not only for money, but for power, and fame, and respect that is not earned, but forced from those who cannot afford not to give it.

All I have to say now is GIVE ME BACK MY FUCKING COUNTRY. You don't deserve it. You don't even know how to appreciate it. You've turned it into a rapacious villain, a diseased mockery of itself, and act as though you've buffed and shined it into a bright shining beacon. Your coat of day-glo paint isn't fooling anyone but yourselves.

Educate our young. Feed our hungry. Provide shelter for those who are lost. Cure those who are sick.

If you can't, or won't, do these things...get the fuck out of the way so WE CAN.

[The Traveler]

1. Well said

Very, very well said.

[LearnedHand]

2. Great rant! k&r

[Erika]

3. Yes, they have stolen our country

We were proud, we were a leader, we were respected. W dissed all of that. Now we are imperialistic and build our military budget by cutting our programs for the needy. We give to the rich by cutting further into our infrastructure needs. We brag about health care for all Iraqis but deny our own health care. We brag about building new schools in Iraq while our own are crumbling.

W's America...turning into a third world country.

[TomInTib]

4. I wish there was a "Writers" Forum. And I wish this post was not ..

so late at night that only us nightowls would see it.


So well stated, Mythsaje.

"bootstrap levitation" - Git yer Amurrkan Dream right here! Laydeez and Gennullmen!

Bankruptcy and a dime will only cost you....

[SeattleGirl]

5. Excellent rant, mythsaje!

Thank you so much! So much of what you say is how I FEEL! :yourock:

[silverojo]

6. I bow to your greatness!

This is worth e-mailing to everybody, esp. rightards you know.

[EFerrari]

7. Bullshit, they'll say, because after 9/11, EVERYTHING CHANGED.

Bullshit.

Unless you discount the whole Cold War where we were all in danger of being nuked by trigger happy nationalists.

And the Freeps think THIS IS BAD?

I wish I had that memory chip that allowed me to forget the WHOLE EFFEN COLD WAR.

We could only *wish* that whole time that we only had Bush Saudi cronies to fear.

Sorry, Freeps, your bogus man date couldn't keep you safe from a water balloon.

But, you will follow him because you excel at following. No matter the stench of abject betrayal.

Let me hand you this comforting duct tape. :sarcasm:

[linazelle]

8. "The regressive agenda is ...like a cancer..."

It IS cancer.

Their agenda actually CAUSES cancer.

Look at agribusiness and the environmental policies.

I know you know this, but that part of the rant jumped out at me.

:hi:

Simmah down now. Good rant. :thumbsup:

[darkmaestro019]

9. That makes me wish I were pyrokinetic, that "proof" business.

Shouldn't it be up to those voting and drooling and slavering in favor of mass murder to PROVE that it's necessary?

Is it ever, really, necessary?

Why the fuck should we have to prove that it ISN'T? Can you imagine the triple-digit serial killers we'd have if it was up to those who were "anti-murder" to prove why the victims DID NOT DESERVE TO DIE?

[pnwmom]

10. I'm an angry leftie, too, who thinks it is critical we don't tear at each

other like mad dogs, because of our own differences of opinion.

It seems crazy that after the last five years, anyone can think that the Dems are just like the Repubs. If Gore had been elected we never would have started this insane war, we would have signed the Kyoto treaty, we wouldn't have had massive tax cuts for the rich, etc., etc..

And now matter how Hillary, or Kerry, or any other Dem voted, it didn't matter. Bush had the votes to do what he wanted without any of them. We have to get the majorities back.

Whoever the Democratic candidate is in 2008, I hope we will put aside our differences and all band together. This next election may be our last chance.

[shenmue]

11. The right idea

:applause:

Nicely done.

[xchrom]

12. another angry person on the left here.

[hootinholler]

13. I wish I could focus through my anger to articlate that well. n/t

[Hamlette]

14. great rant K&R

[alarimer]

15. If you are not angry, you are not paying attention

I think my head is going to explode one of these days.

[0007]

16. Time to bat heads with the truth and stand tall. If not split the country

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

17. Bravo! Well written. Checking out your site now (K&R,NT)

[Donailin]

18. the media IS doing its job

they're getting paid good money to lie to the public and push opinion in favor of the GOP -- that party that keeps their coffers filled.

We are the new media. This right here -- DU DailyKos MLW MDD Crooks and Liars Truthout BuzzFlash TWN TPM et al. -- we are the ones who determine what the public needs to know by our sheer numbers.

[guinivere]

19. Great rant! And damn good writing. nt

[applegrove]

20. Laugh it off when they provoke a feeling in you, or a lifestyle change,

like becoming an activist because they are so dam scary, and then try to label you as ???. Just fill in the blank. They will call you something else next month. Apparently you are just supposed to sit quietly and not notice when your country is tribalized and your values and way of life is under constant threat.

[Tigress DEM]

21. I feel you, even though in general I have a different viewpoint.

There are times I get so angry my family and co-workers fear for my sanity. Once in awhile some bonehead at work puts the cafeteria tv on FAUX News and I can't help myself, I start talking back to the tv.

When someone asks me for proof, I have it though. It may not be out on MSM, but there are credible sources you can quote - WPO, CSpan, WSJ even covered Harry Reid for example - recently MSM has been "selectively" putting out factual information. It may be buried on page 8 or 30, but it's their way of saying, we are listening to our viewers/readers etc...

WMD?
GW admitted there were none.
Cheney admitted there were none.
Misled by the information? Isn't that why they should have listened to Joe Wilson, an expert?
British report? Um, same document, same "official signature" by an official that hadn't been in that agency for years.

If they don't get it, pull out a dollar bill or 5, 10 or 20 and ask them if the signature of the treasurer on the bill you hold in your hand was of someone who was treasurer back in 1975 and the bill shows it was made in 2000, isn't that an obvious forgery? How can anyone look at a document with a bogus signature like that and call it valid? It would be one thing if the British report had been done first, who knows every current official - but AFTER Joe Wilson pointed that fact out in his report...? WHERE is THEIR proof?

In general, I think MOST people aren't these right wing screech nuts that support the administration. After all if not for the stealing of the elections in 2000 and 2004 these bozos we are all so angry at, they wouldn't be in power. They played the 9/11 thing to swing what votes they got legitimately and they cheated to get the rest, but their kind are not the majority in this country. WE ARE.

What I find difficult is the upstream swim against disinformation.

Wolf Blitzer let a rethug indicate that the British report was based on something different than
the same document that Joe Wilson had debunked.

[HeeBGBz]

22. When will enough be enough?

When will the collective conscience of this country finally break out of the great depression of knowing what we have become and move to action to become what we should have been before greed became our national diety?