That's it.... - Democratic Underground

WCGreen

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Thu Dec-02-10 12:15 AM
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That's it....

I'm going back to the Lounge.

Only now that I got all Hoity Toity and posted 99% of the time here in the political Discussion Threads, I don't know if even the free wheeling Lounge could spark my interest, bring back my humor schtick...

You see I started out here, yes I did, all the way back in 2002 but after the 2004 election and all the disappointment, I wanted nothing to do with politics.

So I went over to the Lounge to forget...

And then the 2006 cycle started and they sucked me back in what with their tales of victory and dreams of lifting the shroud of dread that dropped over the country back in 2000.

I thought my political life was over, I was no longer an officer of the county party, never wanted to run for office again, really didn't want to have anything to do with elections even though I have been making money from politics all the way back to when Jimmy Carter was in office.

Boy, the changes I have seen and all the stuff that just changed on the surface, I could write a book.

But in 2006, I was asked to help a friend on his campaign for the Supreme Court here in Ohio and I was hooked, line and sinker...

So now that I want to go back to the Lounge, I just don't think I can...

My sense of humor is going, going, gone and all that remains is a growing cynicism that has struck down so many of my generation.

Perhaps I can reunite with long lost acquaintances now that I feel as if my political mo jo has gone.

For the first time in my lifetime, I am 53, I don't feel so optimistic about the future, don't feel as if I have anyone, or hardly anyone, who speaks for my concerns either in DC or down there in Columbus...

I shouldn't feel this way. I am an accountant, tax preparer, really, and I should be happy that my business will pick up because anytime they start talking about getting the tax code back to simple it becomes more complicated and more and more people are frightened of their tax situation.

Plus the disabled situation I find myself in really makes it depressing to think about what the GOP could really do to me and millions of others like me.

Anyway, I still want president Obama to succeed, I really do, but I think more and more each day that all that talk here and everywhere about how brilliant he was and how his political organizational skills are right up there have set the bar of expectations so high.

And you really can't blame him. He was really handled a bag of shit disguised as a country to govern.

It would have taken a political Houdini to address the issues and still be able to engage politically.

and so I am left, it now seems, with a president with the wrong skill set needed to deal with an obstinate political party that embraced naked power and lust for riches over the concerns of people like you and me...

So I go days without posting and then something happens and I get sucked back in and I start with a few tentative posts and then a burst of posting that, more oaten than not, turns out not to be what I wanted to really say. And I am usually a man not at a loss for words...

I don't know, politics has been such a huge part of my life for so long, I was on student council through out high school and parts of college and worked as a page for the Ohio House back in the 70's, I don't know if I can just let it all go.

But it's getting really hard to deal with how this country is changing.

If you made it this far, good for you and thank you.

Anyway, maybe I'll just lurk for awhile, maybe I'll just post now and then...

Sigh...