I won't let all the hand wringing over today ruin my hope for a better tomorrow

[The Straight Story]

I am prone to rip dem ass on a regular basis when they let me down, and they did today (well, not all of them).

But I have too much on the line to let some set backs now erase my hope of a better future. We have a weak leadership to be sure, but I believe, for the first time in a long time, that we have some hope.

Be pissed, kick ass, take names, and work for change - that is what WE have been doing for a long time now. And slowly, but surely, it is going to happen. We got the congress back, soon we will have the white house. Today may make us feel depressed over things, but this is but one thing in a sea of issues we must fight - and for the first time in a damned long time we are on the verge of winning.

I'll be right here with you to hold their feet to the fire, but I would damned sure rather have our people in power over theirs. And those who say they are on our side and vote against us best take notice, people are fed up and want massive change to a broken system.

Change may not be going on where we most need it, but it is going on where we most want it - on the local level. People are finally waking up to the fascism we are sliding in to.

The great hope we have left is not so much in our leaders that we elect, but in the people who are starting to see how bad things really are.

There is a better tomorrow, and it won't be up to our elected officials to make it happen. It will be up to us freeing ourselves from the chains they have forged for us.

They have woken up a sleeping giant, and eventually we will have what it is we seek. And I don't care what letter they have after their name, they are not going to be paid by us if they won't do the job we put them there to do.

I DO have hope, because I have seen so many now on the nets seeing the truth of things and wanting real change.

We will win, but we won't if we concede defeat because some in our own party have went against us. They have the power to make laws, we have the power to toss them out. They used their power, and we will use ours.

It is time to stand, and not be beaten down because we have lost our sense of hope.

They won today - but they won't win in the end, because I still believe in the people of this country.

They want us to give up, throw our hands up in the air, and move on.

I won't give them the pleasure.

[midnight]

1. That's is right, This is not over.

[Mind_your_head]

2. Your "better tomorrow" is going to be TAKEN from you "chip by chip"

not in a big 'clobber'/club-over-the-head moment.

Address the 'problems' while they are smallish.....it's not going to get "better" if you allow them to grow into 'large' problems (and it is probably way too late for this advice).

G'nite Pollyanna! :hi:

[The Straight Story]

3. yeah, well, I remember the fundies warning us about all this in the 70's and 80's

And we told em they were crazy.

back then they called you Pollyanna ;)

[Mind_your_head]

4. I'm no Pollyanna.

At some point, one has to stop focusing on "the bright side" (which is what Pollyanna always did), and focus on the right :eyes:/correct :-) side .....and REALISTICALLY move into the future.

That's what I am trying so 'ineptly' to say.

Peace,
M_Y_H

[Solon]

5. We got Congress back for the Democrats, but not for ourselves...

they have their own agenda, as should be obvious now, and frankly they are outright ignoring us, and why shouldn't they? Who are we going to vote for, the Republicans? :eyes:

Basically this is how it works, the left works for and elects Democrats, said Democrats throw a bone or two to the left, and the left are expected to wag their tails happily at this, and when they don't, they are thrown in a cage until disciplined. They also, with some grumbling, go back to the polls and reelect those who they don't like because, as said before, what choice do they have? Cycle, rinse, repeat.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Don't give up but none of these people is a knight in shinny armor

it is up to us... don't throw up your hands, up your resistance

But make no mistake about it... their agenda is not necessarily yours and this applies in particular to blue dogs\DLC types

[Dammit Ann]

7. Thank you.

As usual, you save my breath and fingers from having to bother to post how I feel.