I just feel so positive about the direction the country is headed.

[Peacetrain]

I know I post something to this effect every two weeks or so. But it is just true.

Like a giant jig saw puzzle the pieces are falling in place.

Very proud.. very proud in deed!

[YOY]

1. We'll see. I hope you are right.

Because I am not positive.

[hlthe2b]

3. I feel the same...

I'd love to have the optimism expressed and this is one time I'd dearly like for the OP (and not me, or YOY) to be right.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. I see brownian motion trending to disaster. Sorry - and I am an optimist!

[ShortnFiery]

4. I wish I could convey the same sentiments but, I believe, we are ...

careening toward disaster. So many people "want to believe" but I can no longer hold out hope. The facts speak for themselves. IMO, the only people who will ENJOY the next decade are the upper 1% and a few smatterings of the upper-middle class who support them ... the rest of us "chattering classes" will fight over the scraps in high stress and misery.

[Peacetrain]

6. Three years ago.. I could not even see the possibilites of getting out

from under the mess the Bush's and conservatives had gotten us into. I really do see we are moving away from the brink of destruction of our country.

I also know it is not where I want it to be.. but compared to where we were and how we were headed, .. I just can't help but be optimistic about the future.

[ShortnFiery]

7. If you're talking of the Democratic Party's welfare, yes. However, ...

with regard to the American Wage Slave, it's not just the GOP who are our opponents. I see horrific times ahead ... and God, how I wish I were wrong, but my impressions usually are NOT.

Here's to hoping I'm WRONG ---> :toast:

[Peacetrain]

8. ShortnFirey, as much as I admire you and your posts.. I love to read them

I hope (and really believe) you are wrong also.. :toast:

Besides, listening to all the history channel stuff on 2012 lately.. Not going to make much difference anyhow according to that crowd.

[ShortnFiery]

11. Thank-you for the kind thoughts.

Yes, here's to hope springs eternal. :-) :thumbsup:

[blues90]

20. I don't see one bit of change .

All that has happened was to bail out the thieves and be told that now the corporations somehow give a damn like the auto companies over night grew a conscience.
The wars rage on and the jobs continue to evaporate and the G20 sit there guarded and decide the future.

It's like this massive tug of war between two sides of the same coin and neither have the answers and neither are right.

Through my 60 years it has continued to get worse and worse in so many respects that it is broken into pieces.

If we were ever on the right course then by now there would be no more wars and we would have learned from the past. This could have been stopped but it was allowed .

[Doctor_J]

10. I'm with you Short

I don't know what age group PT is, maybe that affects his/her outlook. 20 years ago I was a young adult, and I can say without reservation that there isn't a single facet of life in America that is better now than it was then. A person as stupid and ignorant as Sarah Palin wouldn't have gotten anywhere near national office a generation ago. No one would have dared to wave automatic weapons around at presidential appearances. Dick Cheney would have been impeached and imprisoned about 15 felonies ago.

I still have a glimmer of hope as I head into the last 1/3 of my life, but until we start taking some aggressive steps against the leaders of the fascists (King Glenn, Limpballs, Fox News), America will continue to get more like Pinochet's Chile as time goes by.

[Withywindle]

19. Well, I"m not a young adult either.

I came of age in political awareness in the 80s, and I can say that Ronald Reagan and Bush I were every bit the criminals Cheney is. Iran/Contra. El Salvador. Nicaragua. Reagan's mass murder by shrugging off AIDS victims to die was worse than the mass murder of Katrina, in murder-by-negligence terms. And we have not BEGUN to scratch the surface of Bush Sr's atrocities as head of the CIA. I don't know about JFK, I won't even walk into that, but I know for SURE he played a role in the 1964 right-wing military coup in Brazil (which resulted in numerous expatriates including MY MOM) and the 1973 coup against Chilean president Salvador Allende (whose niece Isabel is one of the greatest writers of our time; read her to learn more). And the Reagan/Bush regime morally, militarily, and economically supported the brutal apartheid regime of South Africa.

It'll take another post to break down all their union-busting and violence against labor here at home.

So the Bush administration was totally fucking foul, but it wasn't unprecedented. They were just building on the bad work of 20 years before.

Those of us who were young adults in the late 80s/early 90s ALSO knew there were few aspects of American life that were better then than it was 20 years before, at least economically. But those of us who are female, people of color, or GLBT, or all of the above, know that things are still improving with hard work, and every small step forward is worth it.

[BeyondGeography]

5. Our opponents have fallen and they can't get up

[Oregone]

15. Its not them Im worried about

Now its time for the one's that talk the good talk to do the walk. And never forget, the electorate that put Bush in that office twice still lurks in the country

[Phx_Dem]

9. I agree. There was so much cleaning and repairing to do, and

it seems like things are improving every day! I think Obama has done an outstanding job so far.

[tilsammans]

12. I believe in miracles . . .

. . . and we'll need one to get through the mess.

But they DO happen. Thanks for the positive, uplifting message. :grouphug:

[BlooInBloo]

13. To me it's more like a drunken hobo, shuffling forward, but yah.

[cliffordu]

14. I am too. That's why I only have to pack 2 extra magazines with the glock.

Instead of the usual five.

[Peacetrain]

17. Okay I give, I give.. there will be no topping that one..

:rofl:

[cliffordu]

18. Just here to do my part.

:rofl:

[LWolf]

16. You must not be a teacher. nt

[Billy Burnett]

21. Nor a small business owner who's had to lay off near and dear long time employees.

I have never been so gut wrenchingly stressed and broke. Spent over 30 years of stress and toil building a small moderate business. It has all but vanished in the last 5 years, the last year being the backbreaker. Don't know how we're going to pay the mortgage and the office rent, insurance, car. Most of the reserves and savings went into trying to hold on and keep my cohorts employed - to no avail. I am near to despondent.

And we've got a long way to fall yet, and I see near zero hope of seeing real wages of the lower 90% rising in the US anytime.

We've been pwned by the corporate masters.

[invictus]

22. All it will take is an attack on Iran to screw everything up and Israel is hellbent on taking us the

there.

[ShortnFiery]

23. It's not just Israel, many corporations would love to destabilize Iran so they can

replace the leadership with figureheads who will let Large Multi-National corporations divvy up the booty of oil and gas reserves. We have many "behind the scenes" power elites that have our LEGISLATORS eating out of their hands.

This is vile - it's for geopolitical positioning and raping more of the ME of their natural resources. :thumbsdown:

[slackmaster]

24. I guess it depends on which direction you choose to look

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6640272&mesg_id=6640272

[Cha]

25. I know..it's a very good

feeling. There's negativity all around but the center core is strong and moving in the right direction!

[Crosseyed Jesus]

26. All Aboard?

I share in your optimism. But as long as we have a government and a citizenry that are guided by books of mythology such as the bible, torah, and the koran. This Nation does not stand a chance of evolving into a harmonious environment. But that is my opinion and view to wards this Nation. The community where I dwell is heading in that direction as I write. Unfortunately at times we have to venture into that so called civilization.