I grow discouraged. [View All]

[PretzelWarrior]

2 weeks after the election, I have the following thoughts swirling around in my head:

THis election is well and truly done. No one and I mean no one in the mainstream is accepting any kind of premise where the results of the election are overturned. So, as the counting continues in various states and suspicious activities surrounding voting are uncovered--it won't matter. OUr form of democracy is dead. It was speeding down that path with the illegitimacy of 2000, but now it is practically codified as acceptable to do so. NO questions will be asked. The few that dare are mocked.

Porter Goss replaces a George Tenet and he proceeds to slice through the upper management of the CIA backbone. Whether you want to call it a purge or an arrogant alienation of the long-term staffers....we can soon expect the same great policy decisions out of the CIA that were emanating from the DOD in runup to war in Iraq.

Colin Powell is gone. As much as I despised him for aligning himself with this corporate crime family, I at least saw he was TRYING to moderate decisions in this administration. Now we will have the same brilliant mental work at the state department that ruled the day with National Security now that Condi is expected to take over.

Ashcroft is gone...but in his place is a man who approved so many deaths in Texas and winked at US torture of prisoners and detainees. Look for more brilliant rationalizations in the years to come as the civil rights and liberties of people here and abroad are eroded.

Our troops have been caught dead to rights TORTURING Iraqi people. Some were merely innocents caught up in dragnets. Some were probably really criminal. Still, it is so sad to know NOTHING has been done save for a token grunt or two being prosecuted.

Our troops are now murdering IRaqis with impunity. The compliant lapdog media is eating it up. Do they care? Do Americans care? Is this what we've become?

A man killed himself at ground zero because he was so upset Bush will be free to continue his mad policies with what is purportedly a MANDATE of 51%.

A man set fire to himself outside the White House in protest of this administration and it's criminal, murderous ways.

Can we expect more crying, wailing, and gnashing of teeth from people of good conscience in this nation and abroad? You can be assured that this will continue as the stone-faced Cheney and smirking, cheek-biting idiot-in-thief look on.

I feel a dread dark cloud covering ever more of this nation and by virtue of this nations projected power...creeping over the entire earth.

Who will stand up and push back against the tyranny lurking right beside us? Who will join together as neighbors in the figurative sense and as community in the truest sense and rid ourselves of this evil?

I came here to this site to find solace in a dystopic world under Bush....now there are many days where even my time here cannot provide me the comfort I need as I see this country I used to know.