This Democratic Underground

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

Walkin to the gallows.
Losing the love of your life, your very being...

Here in the Democratic Underground,
a reservoir of ideas, feelings, creativity,
and passion.

United in the cause of Justice and Liberty.
A Noble Cause.

Poets and patriots,
egos and wannabes
newshounds and some dogs,
Legislators and Senators.

Democracy.

The Land of The Free
The Home of the Brave.

A lot of what I read here disturbs me.
A lot of what I read here inspires me.
Some of what I read merely gets me
through the day.

The judgements of others here
without cause or necessity.
Threads that are filled with hate
of our fellow human being -
both disturb and anger me.

It is your passion that keeps me here.

I both love and hate this country.
Each with cause and passion.

I contacted my Congresswoman for a Capital flag.
It hung from my window, I wrapped myself in it.
I am an American.
There is that feeling we all know
in our guts, that intense patriotic pull that brings tears
to our eyes.

Having deep feelings of injustice personally
I needed to make a political statement.
I thought of burning this flag. I am glad I have that right,
for now anyway.
Personal satisfaction would have been the empty result.
I never allowed that flag to touch the ground,
handled in the respect and care deserving it.
I folded it, sent it back to the Congresswoman.

I want no flag that flew over the Capital under
the Bush Regime.

Without this basic feeling of kindred spirits in
a time of Constitutional unrest, Unjust and Illegal war,
a president who should have been Impeached years ago,
and world wide chaos -
I would be alone. Alone in my anger, alone in my rage.

It is this underground, a blip on the
World Wide Web
where freedom still reigns.
Where Constitutional Rights are still protected.
Here is where history lies.

A dictator was hung,
A president lay in State.
Betty Ford weeps.

[barbtries]

1. yeah

me too

[Annces]

2. very nice - thank you n/t

[Uncle Joe]

3. Thanks for the poem Sees Clearly

Kicked and recommended

[chefgirl]

4. You certainly do see clearly

Took the words right out of my mouth....or more correctly, you took the thoughts right out of my head and used the language far better than I could ever have hoped to.

I am an American.
There is that feeling we all know
in our guts, that intense patriotic pull that brings tears
to our eyes.

Damn skippy. Thanks for that. Sometimes its easy to forget.

-chef-

[Chorophyll]

7. That part got me too.

No political party has a monopoly on patriotism. We love America, dammit. That's why we've been fighting so hard, trying to drag the country back from the edge of the abyss it's been teetering on for the last six years.

Thanks, Sees Clearly.

[H2O Man]

5. Thank you.

Nomination #21.

[Nite Owl]

6. Beautiful!

Thanks and welcome to DU Sees Clearly!

[Robbien]

8. thanks

Excellant prose

:thumbsup:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

9. Wonderful piece Sees Clearly

"I both love and hate this country.
Each with cause and passion."

Rarely has being a patriot been summed up so eloquently.

Many thanks for this.

:hug:

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

10. Thank you so much

:smoke: :nopity: :woohoo:

[bonito]

11. On hallowed ground

We see, we hear, we feel, here we are together.
Just more words, bigger are WE beyond words.

[kentuck]

12. K & R

Very timely..

[cwydro]

13. And the godfather of soul

has joined the night shift.

Nice post there.

[DeepModem Mom]

14. Wonderful! Thank you. nt

[byronius]

15. Ten Years On -- this place will have been Important.

Many, many lives cross here, as never before in the history of Man.

The Greeks didn't do everything first. THIS -- is a New Thing.