I Give Up

[Steely_Dan]

I've finally lost all faith in my country.

-P

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Ye are not alone, in many ways

I know

Hugs

[bushisanidiot]

2. Ok, bye bye.

.

[scheming daemons]

3. The Republican Party thanks you

...

[Lorien]

28. Which appears to include most of the Democratic Party. nt

[MUAD_DIB]

4. Are you leaving?

[spanone]

5. well, you hung in there for a good seven months....

[stillrockin]

6. I'm feeling kinda the same way.

:cry:

[Zenlitened]

7. Can we call you 'Deacon Blues' now?

:shrug:

[deaniac21]

8. Are you reeling in the years?

[Quantess]

24. Ricky don't lose that number.

[David Zephyr]

9. Stick around. Your not alone.

It will be a great exercise watching the disciples rationalize the betrayal by their beloved.

The Left is the Left. Our road has never been an easy one. What's worse? Stabbed in the chest by the right-wing or stabbed in the back by pseudo-liberals?

[Saboburns]

16. I'm tired of being called a God Damn Disciple by the likes of you.

Piss off!!

[David Zephyr]

23. No one mentioned you. Apparently the shoe fit, though.

The hit dog barks, doesn't it?

[David Zephyr]

22. Added to Steely_Dan

Keep the faith. :hi:

[jeffbr]

10. My wife and I gave $1000 to Obama

when Hillary's people were badgering us for support. We were hoping for real change. So far, it's been a slap in the face.

[titoresque]

11. $1000 bucks huh......

we'll see.

[dflprincess]

13. Ask for it back

tell them you need it to pay medical bills.

[Pangolin2]

18. Heehee....good one!

:D

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[dem629]

25. It's a good lesson to learn. I've given zero money to politicians, since 1998.

They can earn my vote. I might volunteer for some of them. But I'll never give another one a single penny.

[AuntPatsy]

12. Not so much me , you can't lose what you never had...I look at humanity as a whole before

country line separation and when one takes a good look at the whole orb...it is very hard to keep faith period..but my faith is shaky in the humanity department...those who ignore history are bound to repeat it's mistakes...it seems as a majority rule mistakes are the normal scheme of life..

[dysfunctional press]

14. welcome aboard...what took you so long?

i came to the same realization awhile back.

[PopSixSquish]

15. Might Want to Change Your Avatar Then

I think that fella is still the Vice President and is working like hell every day to try and make things better...

[Pangolin2]

17. Well, "faith" is a dumb way to run a life...or a universe.

:D

[RagAss]

19. Is this a Royal Scam?

[Subdivisions]

20. It's amazing to me just how many on this board have absolutely

no clue what's going on and are driven only by party ideology, sometimes to the extent that they are unable to see anything but skittle-shitting unicorns.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

26. Great

adios

[Echo In Light]

27. George Carlin: "the human game was up a long time ago"

"The first two areas will speak for themselves, but concerning the "big world," let me say a few things.

I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in. Listening to the comedians who comment on political, social, and cultural issues, I notice most of their material reflects an underlying belief that somehow things were better once and that with just a little effort we could set them right again. They're looking for solutions, and rooting for particular results, and I think that necessarily limits the tone and substance of what they say. They're talented and funny people, but they're nothing more than cheerleaders attached to a specific, wished-for outcome.

I don't feel so confined. I frankly don't give a fuck how it all turns out in this country - or anywhere else, for that matter. I think the human game was up a long time ago (when the high priests and traders took over), and now we're just playing out the string. And that is, of course, precisely what I find so amusing: the slow circling of the drain by a once promising species, and the sappy, ever-more-desperate belief in this country that there is actually some sort of "American Dream," which has merely been msiplaced.

The decay and disintegration of this culture is astonishingly amusing if you are emotionally detached from it. I have always viewed it from a safe distance, knowing I don't belong; it doesn't include me, and it never has. No matter how you care to define it, I do not indentify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood, improvement committee;I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.

So, if you read something in this book that sounds like advocacy of a particular political point of view, please reject the notion. My interest in "issues" is merely to point out how badly we're doing, not to suggest a way we might do better. Don't confuse me with those who cling to hope. I enjoy describing how things are, I have no interest in how they "ought to be." And I certainly have no interest in fixing them. I sincerely believe that if you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem. My motto: Fuck Hope!

P.S. Lest you wonder, personally, I am a joyful individual with a long, happy marriage and a close and loving family. My career has turned out better than I ever dreamed, and continues to expand. I am a pesonal optomist but skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt. I view my species with a combination of wonder and pity, and I root for it's destruction. And please don't confuse my point of view with cynicism; the real cynics are the ones who tell you everything's gonna be all right."