A rant: I'm getting angry too!

[CajunBlazer]

(I posted this deep in a discussion on the Primaries board in response to the claims that the entire country is angry. It's a rant -but I've had with the Bernie people and it's the way I feel right now - if it offends anyone, I apologize in advance.)

Most of the anger that exists is not fixated on the economic condition of the country. It has been a long road, but the country is finally getting back on an even keel economically. The employment rate is now back into the historically normal range. The underemployment rate is quickly improving. No longer are lower paying jobs the only new jobs coming open; good jobs have really started coming back as well. Average wages are rising for the first time in a decade.

So where is the anger coming from? That's easy. It is coming from those dissatisfied with the political situation and strangely it is coming from those most responsible for that situation in the first place - the far right surely, but also the far left. These two groups seem intent in pulling their parties further to the extremes. Given the balance in our government mandated by our Constitution, this polarization means that little gets done in Washington, which in turn breeds more anger.

The groups of people that I see who are the most angry are relatively well off white liberals, Tea Party zealots, and the far right conservatives. However, the zealots on both the far left and the far right have more in common than just their anger.

The dissatisfaction on the political extremes on both sides is driven by political leaders who are constantly banging their drums and claiming that country is going to hell in a hand basket and that the system is rigged against normal people. Notice this is going on on both sides.

Both extremes represent a large very vocal minorities of their respective parties and these groups are both determined to make up for what they lack in numbers with enthusiasm and shear determination.

Both are more inclined to pursue their ideals than to deal with problems common to us all.

Both claim they cannot compromise because to do so would betray their principles.

Both are dead set on nominating politicians who, for the most part, are unacceptable to the those who will decide the Presidential election.

It is time for those of us in the realistic, rational, very wide ranging center of the political spectrum to get equally as dedicated to taking our country back from the angry extreme elements and nominate people who represent the sane people in this nation.

(Rant over)

[still_one]

1. That mindset is the Nader mentality. Of course people like Nader aren't the ones who have to deal

with the consequences

Their mutual funds are doing quite well regardless:

"According to the mandatory fiscal disclosure report that he filed with the Federal Election Commission in 2000, Nader owned more than $3 million worth of stocks and mutual fund shares; his single largest holding was more than $1 million worth of stock in Cisco Systems, Inc. He also held between $100,000 and $250,000 worth of shares in the Magellan Fund.[107] Nader said he owned no car and owned no real estate directly in 2000, and said that he lived on $25,000 a year, giving most of his stock earnings to many of the over four dozen non-profit organizations he had founded"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader

[CajunBlazer]

3. Your link doesn't work

[still_one]

6. Thanks. Just fixed it, and appreciate and understand your rant perfectly

[Thinkingabout]

2. K & R, very good post.

I like the part "The groups of people that I see who are the most angry are relatively well off white liberals, Tea Party zealots, and the far right conservatives. However, the zealots on both the far left and the far right have more in common than just their anger."

It does seem the far left and far right are the angry ones, anger and demands, no give and take, just give them what they want right now.

[DURHAM D]

4. Yes, because -

When you are accustomed to privilege equality feels like oppression.

[pandr32]

9. Wow!

That statement stopped me in my tracks...the proverbial hammer hitting the nail on the head!

[CajunBlazer]

5. I went temporarily insane and posted this on the Primaries board as well

I thought the Bernie people would be all over it, but I guess they don't quite know how to respond. Last I looked it had 69 views and no responses. I'm sure that will change.

[William769]

7. Rant away!

[CajunBlazer]

8. Opps, I was premature

They must must have been shocked initially; they have fully recovered now. Looks like kicked over very large hornets' nest over on DUP.