What makes you the most angry in today's political environment?

[kentuck]

Think about it.

It's a trick question.

[LynneSin]

1. I'm not sure I have the right answer but this is what pisses me off the most

It's not that these GOP candidates are telling such bullshit lies and assine comments.

It's that I meet people who fricking believe them

[kentuck]

2. And I think some of us get pissed off because our Democratic leaders...

are unable or unwilling to adequately respond to their bullshit. Why! Why! Why!

By the way, your answer is correct. You have your finger on the pulse.

[NancyRamirez]

5. Speaking of people who blindly listen to Republicans...

I live in Missouri, the Show Me Anything And I'll Believe It state - the sheer amount of Rick Perry supporters within a 50 mile radius of my house is insanely horrifying. I'd literally rather be surrounded by the same amount of flesh eating zombies, at least they're out in the open about cannibalizing America instead of hiding behind religion.

[kentuck]

7. Welcome Nancy!

Where's the moon today?

[DCBob]

3. The M's...

media, money, misinformation.

[orpupilofnature57]

8. Media Started Misinformation ,for money.

MSM , has been our biggest enemy since 1963.

[baldguy]

4. Today's political environment.

The RW corporatocracy & the MSM have turned governing this country into reality game show. And it's not a very good one either. The GOP candidates spend all their time engaging in blood sacrifices to Mammon, using workers and the middle class as fodder - and the mindless talking heads in the not-news media wonder if the candidates' Italian shoes will protect their feet from the blood. Then, if anyone stands up and asks, "What about the people they're killing?" the wrath of the entire media descends upon them & destroys them.

[orpupilofnature57]

6. People & Politicians disregarding the obvious

to split hairs ,on divisive,superficial ,ambiguos pseudo statistics.

[marions ghost]

9. The arrogance

the greed and the corruption of the Powers That Be.

Winner take all politics sucks.

[11 Bravo]

10. The fact that Republicans are allowed to meander about in public ...

unmuzzled and unleashed.

[stevenleser]

11. The lies Republicans continuously spew nt

[Rex]

12. Not really a trick question if you know the answer.

Kittens.

[kentuck]

13. True...

Only a feeble attempt to get folks to think for a moment before responding.

[Rex]

16. Dam...

I failed then. All my responses are written down on paper and indexed according to my level of outrage for that day!

Tomorrow I will be mad at lamps...won't you join me?

[Booster]

18. Too late. I was mad at lamps yesterday.

[Uncle Joe]

14. Corporate media propaganda aimed at dumbing down and brainwashing the people.

Thanks for the thread, kentuck.

[Fumesucker]

15. I burned out on anger sometime in the Dubya debacle..

What disgusts me most about politics today is people who choose a political team and just root for the team, policy means nothing other than a means to launch propaganda for them.

[Bonhomme Richard]

17. That the republican party is more concerned about power than the nation. Treasonous. n/t

[demosincebirth]

19. Hypocrites.

[kentuck]

20. It's almost like everyone knows the train wreck is about to happen...

but nobody can do anything about it or they pretend they don't see it. Stop the damn train people! But they just smile and start talking about their favorite politician. They either believe that it's not gonna happen or they just don't care. It's like a twilight zone sometimes.

[IDemo]

21. Willful and prideful ignorance

It's bad enough that many people are so completely uninformed, but it seems to have become a point of honor. See: climate change ain't real, Reagan was a great president, drill baby drill.

[saras]

22. What makes me angry and what I choose to get angry about are two different things...

What MAKES me angry - that is, what I haven't got the self-control to choose anything other than anger in response to - is having to witness deliberate injury or torture without being able to successfully intervene.

Where I think anger is a useful motivator when properly directed - that's a different matter, and it varies.

[DavidDvorkin]

23. People who don't agree with me.

[kentuck]

24. I think there is a lot of underlying anger...

at Obama, at the Democratic Party, at the Republicans, at the media, and others. People are angry at what they see as arrogant incompetence and lies by the Republicans and they are angry at the lack of courage and conviction in a lot of Democrats and just the unwillingness to fight back. Not everyone, but a lot. I think Obama has created a lot of this anger by his inability to fight back as hard as some expect him to, especially considering the incompetence and arrogance and downright lies of the Republicans. However, the deepest anger is reserved for the Republicans who they perceive as the root of the problem. The Republicans continue to lie and the anger never subsides. If we can determine the origin of the anger, we can deal with it in a more rational manner, in my humble opinion.