January 4, 2006

i don’t understand the anger

I wish someone could explain what is happening to me. I’ve been reading web logs again, yes, the republican followers sites. I don’t understand.

The Republican Party controls the Executive and Legislative branches of government, the person they chose as their president king is above all law to speak of, since he follows none of them. And they’re angry. They’re angry at “liberals” calling the liberals islamofacists and such garbage. They spew hatred and fear. Calling anybody that is for the separation of church and state “anti-Christian”.

Can someone explain the anger to me? These people have everything they want and yet they’re still angry and calling names.

I’m really scared about the state of things in this country. We have a leader that many believe was not truthfully elected either time, that is above the law and spying on citizens without a warrant, which he has 72 hours to obtain AFTER said spying takes place. We have a war that is creating more and more people angry with this country on a daily basis. We have lost all credibility as an honest, good and compassionate country. And now there are rumors that we’re preparing for yet another war with Iran.

On top of all of that… The economy is still lagging behind. Salaries are not keeping up with the cost of living. The corporations are growing bolder in their glutinously greedy schemes. The government is dismantling the very protections to our jobs and our health and our environment that made this country what it is and people are still shouting their love of their king. The religious set is even more powerful that I’ve ever seen it. I swear, this all reads like the run up to the Nazi take-over of Germany.

Every time I read the papers, and I hear yet another law the shrub feels he doesn’t need to honor because of 9/11 or the war on a terror I want to flee. Flee to the great white north, or flee to Europe. Flee to someplace where madness doesn’t rule and rational thought has a chance. I’m tired of feeling lost in a sea of anger, hatred and fear.

Make it all go away.