the politics of hope

politics of hope
Current mood: hopeful
Category: fiesty News and Politics

I am sitting in my living room watching the results come in from around the country and I am afraid to hope...it seems too many times over the past eight years I have wanted to believe in the intelligence of the average voter and have been mightily disappointed by the shameful one-dimensional response to the politics of fear and patriotism...Fuck all of that!

I will vote for any democrat that wins the endorsement, but I need to say this first;
I was a child that lived through the assassination of both Kennedys, of Martin Luther King, and STILL, I have, and I need, Hope...Once again, I need a vision for this country that goes beyond political iou's. I don't want just policy verbage, I want conviction, i want fight, i want change...i want to believe!!! I want to thank Barak Obama for letting that hope bloom in me again.

I am tired of congress and the senate caving to the fear of being portrayed as not patriotic if they stand against that buffoon bush and his cronies...tired of 9/11, 9/11, 9/11being used as a weapon against our citizens.

I am tired of the cost of the war, not just in economic terms, but in lives lost, in limbs lost, in future casualties, in our enlisted member's rate of foreclosures. I am sick of the administration's retracted benefits for those wounded in this horrid war.

I am sick to death of the most likely illegal and at the least, short-sighted selfishness and greed by the Halibutons, the HMO's the Big-bully industries who steal, pollute and lie...

Once again, I will find it in myself, to hope, to believe that this too shall pass...that the simple man/woman facing a future that leaves our children trillions of dollars in debt, without healthcare, with out basic human services, without funding for infrastructure...ALL of this and So much more will accrue critical mass and make it impossible to sit on our asses and say i can't make a difference.