I'm angry -- are you? (short rant)

[radfringe]

not a political endorsement

are you angry at Bush* Inc.? according to the reich wing this makes you unpatriotic, and according to some of the Democratic candidates being angry is "wrong"

Gephardt recently slammed Dean -- characterizing Dean's campaign as "manufactured anger"

sorry - the anger was already there, is still there, and growing more angry with each passing day - Dean didn't create the anger.

I'm angry at Bush* Inc. and I'm angry at the gelded jellyfish that are running the Democratic party.

If this makes me "wrong" or "unpatriotic" - the so be it --


I'm damn angry


ANGRY ARMS INC

[jpgray]

1. I'm not angry, but I hate this whole business

The war, the deregulation, the starving of education, Medicare and Social Security--the distortions and outright lies from the administration, the say one thing do another mentality. But most of all, I hate the way the media has forsaken any of its palpable repsonsibility to inform the public on important issues. The way they focus on sensationalist stories devoid of real content when earth-shaking events are happening is shameful to this nation and its people.

[Danocrat]

8. I agree

My main gripe is with the media. Bush would not have gotten away with the things he has if the media did its job. They are obligated, and have a responsibility to inform the public. I think we should bring back public hangings for treason. That should fix the problem.

[namaste]

2. I'm more sad than angry..

sad that people didn't pay more attention during the 2000 campaign. If they had looked at Bush's record in Texas, not to mention taken a look at his personal history, Florida would have been a moot point, Bush would have lost in a landslide, and we wouldn't have all these things to be angry (or sad) about.

[leftchick]

5. welcome to DU namaste

You are right, if more people paid attention to the idiot the republican party was giving them this never would have happened. The media is a big issue in all of this too. They propped him up from the very begining and never stopped. I remember reading an article in Salon in 2000 by Mark Crispin Miller. It was all about dumbass*s disengagement and lack of curiosity. (Much like what O'Neill says in his book!) I showed it to my Reichwing Mom and she would have none of it. She is having major doubts today.

[LiberalVoice]

3. I'm a bit more then angry...I sometimes find myself becoming

EXTREMELY enraged about the corruption and injustice that our Govt. is responsible for.

So many dead and injured for life. For money? I find it revolting.

[mouse7]

4. It's not anger, it's moral outrage

It's not an emotion that I slip through and passes. It's a condition I stay in because the cause of it is still here in the White House. The emotions resulting from it change from dark humor to real steaming anger.

[bambo53]

6. Yep, anger is the word

but not just for Bush Inc., I'm way beyond anger for them folks but I believe karma will take care of that.

My true anger is at the so called Democratic leadership. They're the ones that are letting Bush Inc. get away with this stuff. For the life of me, I just cannot understand what they are so afraid of, those anthrax letters must have made quite an impression on them.

I'm angry every time I see one of them doing their dog & pony show while attacking the front runners. If they cannot lead without surrendering all the time they should quit and let somebody else do it.

[leftchick]

7. I am very angry, not just at bushco*

I am angry at our "media", the muricans that continue to believe he is doing a "great job" (wtf!), the Dems in congress that never address all of the LIES..... I am pissed!

[JNelson6563]

9. Amen Sister!!

Hence my hard work with my local party! We are making great strides in my corner of the world to kick the GOP out of their comfy seat of power.

We will win and kick these fascists out!!

Julie

[Lexingtonian]

10. Learn your Kuebler-Ross stages

of mourning/responses to loss:

Denial
Bargaining
Bitterness/Anger
Depression
Acceptance


I'll say that what anger I had is mostly gone now, was given up after some fine indulgence in it when I found a way to move on, and my opinion is that Gephardt is not so very wrong in what he says. Bush has succeeded by generating anger of a hysterical kind among conservatives, and no observer would disagree that e.g. Dean has not been above efforts to ignite more anger of the hysterical kind where most of it is already overcome either. But Dean is having trouble finding new reservoirs of it. Trust me, I see his campaign ads on TV every evening here outside of Boston and the crude fishing for 'outrage' and angry helplessness is in certain ways pathetic- and evidently yielding up less and less, maybe even backfiring somewhat now. Says the polling, I think.

Those "jellyfish" you refer to are always asking me why conservatives can always seem to drum up important supporters and money whenever they're in need of it but grassroots Democrats are far more fickle and unconvincing, full of excuses and far less willing to organize and sacrifice in response to perceived threats to liberal programs and such.

Conservatives are presently absolutely sure that they are losing their hold on the society and hold on opportunities to make money. Liberals seem to feel a lot less concretely endangered, and it shows. The reality is more concretely dangerous to liberals, though, which is the curiosity of it all.

Those who are beyond their anger and come into acceptence of the present reality are those who can function- act and argue- effectively. That doesn't mean forgetting the anger felt, just that anger is itself destructive as a force let loose: it has to be infused into a larger hopefulness in order to achieve constructive things. That is what Clinton has been saying for a while, what Gephardt is also saying (while he has evident misconceptions of our situation) more ineptly, and what is already working for John Edwards.

[xchrom]

11. this isn't the death

of an individual.
it's something much greater than that -- this anger and this outrage has been brewing for a lot longer than the current fuck-up in the white house.
it's about the way the right has been conducting politics in this country for a long time.
bells should be going off, sirens -- street smarts should be telling you the neighborhood has become very dangerous. especially since the clinton witch hunt{not exactly a flaming liberal there} and the theft of the 00 election with the help of the scotus.
this is about our culture, our society and whether it becomes something other than a tool for the already powerful.
this anger, outrage tooks millions to the streets all over the world to prevent a war -- absolutely unprecedented.
one could write reams about the atrocities commited by the right-wing in this country in recent history{remember iran-contra?} -- it keeps fueling the anger and outrage -- it's anger and outrage that will change our current dangerous drift.

[onecitizen]

12. Yep I'm angry too........

mostly that the country was taken to WAR for LIES! We lost young men and women for no other reason other than machismo and oil. I wanna cry and scream. And I'm angry that half the country is too gullible to see how they have been duped. Believe me I am usually easy going and happy. Not anymore. And I won't stop being angry till bush is GONE!