Hope: In serious but stable condition

[Mythsaje]

Day by day we wait. We hang on the result of every poll, every political comment, every news story about the war and the political process unfolding before us. We damn the weak, the appeasing, and the complicit, all to little avail.

We vomit certain names with a bitter tang, bile mixing with the syllables as they leave our mouths. We expected more of them and we can't help but be disappointed. Once we cheered almost everything they said, now we groan and try to pretend we didn't hear them at all.

Once I was filled with righteous rants, screeds of surpassing sharpness and blazing ideological fire. They still lay within me, but hope lies ill, caught with a fever, and pain and wrath stand at the bedside, hoping hope will pull through.

It's a dark time for all of us and, even as we gear up for the fight that will bring us that much closer to the person who might end up leading this country out of the morass Bushco has put it in, we shudder a little with the fear that something will go drastically wrong.

The majority of Americans have woken up to the fact that a right turn isn't what this country needs. Few people are really happy with our direction as it is, and far too many for Republican comfort grow decidedly hostile to their agenda. Oh, they may still fear gays, but that's not enough to tolerate some of the things they've seen, despite all the efforts of the corporate media to incorporate the Right Wing's toxic spin into their "newscasts."

Some people worry that Bushco will refuse to leave office in 2009. I can see from whence this fear springs, but it is not one I myself harbor. To do so would most likely destroy this country, and there are too many attached to the regime that might well rebel against such an action. Not to mention that it's a VERY dangerous tactic for a President with a 26% approval rating to take. I'm sure there are people who see him every day who aren't all that happy with him either.

Of course, that might be poor, ill, weakened hope stirring in its sickbed. I can't say for certain. But what I CAN say for certain is that we liberals are a stubborn breed, and I doubt we'll give in that easily if the worst happens.

And THAT, if nothing else, is like a balm to hope's brow, and an anti-viral shot to its arm.

Hope could use all the help it can get.

[madokie]

1. the thing that bothers me is that the bush/cheney* cabal has commited so many crimes

to make it impossible for them to enjoy life after jan of '09, if they leave, that they will feel compelled to not leave the offices they hold by whatever tactic it takes to do so.

[Mythsaje]

2. I don't think so.

I just don't.

[madokie]

4. thats cool

I worry that the current adminstration have themselves painted into a corner and feel they have no other choice.

[luckyleftyme2]

3. pleasant dreams

I'm beginning to think corruption of our political system by greedy entities is much worse then we want to believe. whether it be corporate america or just special interest groups that thrive on our tax dollars and our "credit" thAT have brought us to the brink of extinction.
I often wonder if while milking the golden cow they have pulled the teat so many times she is going dry.
LIKE BUSH SENIOR SAID HISTORY WILL TELL THE STORY,BUT IT WON'T BE THE ONE HE'S DREAMING OF!

[madokie]

5. so what are you saying thats different from what I say

[lazer47]

6. "Hope springs eternal"

We have become to dependent on outside influences, we HOPE that God will "fix it", we HOPE the Government will "fix it", we HOPE that some divine influence will "fix it", and all the while we forget that within each of us is the infinite power to "fix it" ourselves.

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

7. I said in a post not long ago

that I was "exhausted with hope". Still true, still breaks my heart.