Okay... it's Vietnam era. You've lost a brother, a classmate, two

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

Okay... it's Vietnam era. You've lost a brother, a classmate, two people you kind of knew through work and three kids in your immediate neighborhood.

You see the funerals. You know some of the bereaved. The war hangs over your reality every day.

And some politician tells you that this isn't the time to withdraw... that the polls say x, y,z... that we would lose face... that arguing about Vietnam isn't the only thing Congress does... that the people would never stand for a fast withdrawl...

And you stare, open-mouthed.

You think there is something else going on? Are you fucking high?

That is how I feel. There is this thing... this net of circumstances... this phenomenon that is changing everyone, hurting everyone, diminishing everyone. The people live in rising terror and the heartlessness that can engender.

An entire fucking generation having their dream (sic) swept away, if it can be proper to call the hope of a dignified life as your body fails and your spouse becomes disabled a fucking dream...

Kids who get a higher education... another dream.

What the Fuck?

Sorry, but I am pissed off. This thing has been moving through our neighborhoods like a fucking plague...

The lack of urgency, or seriousness, of concern for the truth... staggering. The devotion to RW lies and crackpot theories exhibited by even most Democrats...

It is unacceptable.

So what is the alternative?

None.

Not only will the Republicans will no pull us out of Depressionam, they will escalate! They will subject this nation to a more shocking step of collapse.

So Dems it is... absolutely imperative. No way around it.

But I can be pissed. I am pissed every day. Some of you may have noticed.

ADDED ON EDIT: No disrespect to anyone. I am not a kid minimizing Vietnam from a distance. I grew up fully expecting to be drafted eventually. Lucky for me it ended before I got to the point, but it was ever-present in my youth.

[stray cat]

1. Of course you can be pissed - so can tea partiers

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

2. Anger is no reason to vote poorly.

I have never considered a vote a favor I do for a politician. (Or a means to punish one.)

It is an action to seek an end.

The same circumstances that anger me happen to make voting for people I have lost some respect for absolutely mandatory.

The Dems have seldom been worse, yet the ethical/moral/practical gulf between Dems and pugs has seldom been wider.

[RKP5637]

3. Don't blame you a bit, a lot of us are pissed. Of course in the Vietnam war we had

the draft which made a lot of people pay attention, and it was also aired on nightly news, people getting killed. Today, IMO, these wars are out of sight, out of mind and sanitized for the American public by MSM for the most part. For many people it's something someone else is doing. Relative to the financial ruin of this country, for many people it's someone else's problem. Today, IMO, many people dissociate themselves from the reality of what is going on if it doesn't affect them... not all, but many IMO.

If the R's are back in this country is headed straight toward a depression, maybe it is anyway, but I do know, as you've said, the R's will escalate the financial demise of many in this country. They had a solid history of doing this.

Agree! "So Dems it is... absolutely imperative. No way around it." I think it's the best chance we have for survival.

[laughingliberal]

4. K & R nt

[madmax]

5. Understand where you're coming from

I lived it. Lost friends, my cousin lost an arm and a leg in 'Nam. All that came back were never the same.

This is Vietnam all over again but, without the draft no one is rioting in the streets. War protests, songs written - hardly a peep. Another nightmare in my lifetime, this one lasting longer than Vietnam.

:hug: