Yeah, I'm pissed...So what?

Condemn me for being part of the "angry left" if you will (the whole 'leftist' smear is so 20th Century anyway--there hasn't been a real relevant "leftist" movement in this country since the 1930s), but I'll be damned if I'll let you accuse me of being angry without a reason.

In the past twelve years the Regressives have attacked our whole system like a pack of rabid rats tearing bloody chunks from the body politick and washing it down with the blood of the patriots who died to give us our freedom in the first place. Would be tyrants, each and every one of them, so caught up in the fever of greed for money and power that the foundation on which this country was built, the ideals that it claimed, are as meaningless to them as the history of the rest of the world they scorn.

Damn right I'm angry. I'm angry every time one of the shrieking pundits accuses me of being a traitor because I believe in the original vision of America as a shining beacon of hope for the world. I'm angry every time I hear a lie come from those we elect to tell us the truth. I'm angry every time another young man or woman falls in a hot, dusty place across the ocean because our 'leaders' have neither the moral courage nor the decency to stand up for them and us alike.

I'm angry because the media has failed to do its job, leaving it up to people like me to try to reach out to those who will listen. I'm angry because this abandonment has left me faced with people who say "where's your proof?" when it should be as plain on the nose on their face. They swallow lies as if they were wines of the finest vintage, and choke on truth as if it were the bloated, maggot filled corpse of a rat left on the doorstep by the neighbor's cat.

I still debate them on occasion, simply because it behooves us to spread truth whenever possible, whenever the attempt doesn't put your very sanity in danger. Because, make no mistake, the world teeters wildly every time you put forth the truth only to have some oblivious fellow citizen declaim your words as those of a fool or, worse yet, 'partisan hack.'

They say "you offer me opinion with no proof to back it up.""How much goddam proof do you need?" I want to yell. "Why the HELL are we in Iraq? Huh? Because they had WMDs? Because Saddam was an asshole? Because we wanted to give Democracy to people who've never shown they had any real interest in it? Do you even KNOW?"

The regressive agenda is to eliminate all those things that has made America a land of opportunity...slashing wildly at anything that might improve the lot of the less fortunate. For the regressive movement seems to be made up of two kinds of people--those who are already rich, and those who wish fervantly to become the type of person who can grind another human into the dirt just for the shits and giggles of it.

There is NO such thing as bootstrap levitation, you assholes! People find success in life through the support and encouragement of their neighbors. A person who looks out for him or her self first belongs to no community--for those who would call that person brethren would be the type to knife him or her in the back the very moment it becomes more convenient than guarding that same back, and steal even the fillings out of his or her teeth just to make a quick buck in the process.

They who despise their fellow man, and seek only to gain advantage from them, deserve nothing more than scorn. For they steal not only THINGS, but also the very dignity that lies behind the definition of humanity.

The regressive agenda is the very epitome of that which is anti-human. It is like a cancer in our midst, a destructive force that turns our very being against itself. And it feeds on fear and hatred and greed. Fear of the unknown, of the strange, hatred of those who are in some way different, and greed...not only for money, but for power, and fame, and respect that is not earned, but forced from those who cannot afford not to give it.

All I have to say now is GIVE ME BACK MY FUCKING COUNTRY. You don't deserve it. You don't even know how to appreciate it. You've turned it into a rapacious villain, a diseased mockery of itself, and act as though you've buffed and shined it into a bright shining beacon. Your coat of day-glo paint isn't fooling anyone but yourselves.

Educate our young. Feed our hungry. Provide shelter for those who are lost. Cure those who are sick.

If you can't, or won't, do these things...get the fuck out of the way so WE CAN.

:evilgrin:

The whole angry left thing is just about as accurate as the way they steal every one of our strengths and call them our weaknesses. They're good for women. Yeah frickin right. They're good for immigrants. They're good for the middle class. They're good on security. They're good on education.
Yeah frickin right. Those jackpipes have screwed up EVERYTHING they have ever touched, except for the ability to funnel the tax dollars of the many to the few. That and smearing the name of all that is good in this country.
Eff yeah, I'm pissed.

And I'm far from being in the minority. What are you going to do when all these angry people come to get you, neocons? Hide like the cowards you really are? Oh, I cannot wait until the tide really turns. Payback will be sweet.

Tammy

12 years? Try 26 years since that drooling, half-witted, buffoon Ronald Raygun brought us Mourning in America and started his war on the working class.

I am with you, I'm angry, and I don't give a shit what others think.

It is time to take back the country, I agree. But we won't do it by continuing along the losing path the Democrats have embraced over the past quarter of a century. It's not polite discussion and debate that wins elections, fair wages or social change. It is and always has been organized action. Whether you are talking about peaceful protests such as with King or Gandhi, or the Teamsters and ILWU strikes that helped in conjunction with FDR create a viable, vibrant middle class, it is large scale, organized action that facilitates change. Part of the success of the corporate class has come as a result of the rise of mass media, television in particular, which has helped to foster a feeling of isolation among people, created communities where neighbors don't know eachother, and which has been used to catapult the free-marketer propaganda in advertising and entertainment.

Anyway, you are not alone. Take care.

I talked about it then, even as a young man who didn't really know shit.

But the last twelve years have been blatant. Since the "Contract On America," it's gotten regressively worse.

Now more than ever.

I wonder daily where the hell is the sect of pissed off, getting shit done Dems.

I am continually attacked and/or put down when I reveal my anger.....which of course just makes me angrier.

Anger is good....it lets you know that justice is lacking.

Maybe we need to form a sect within the Left that embraces Anger....that demonstrates the Truth of Anger. I sure the hell think that it would start to scare some of those regressives. We need to go outside of the formal political structures....cuz they sure the hell don't spit nails like I do.

Again, thanks and...rant on!

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You speak for me! Outstanding, best of show rant.

:rofl: I'd make a terrible President. Okay, so well, maybe I wouldn't. But that's one damn scary notion.

The RW would HATE me more than they hated Clinton. They'd probably shoot me just to shut me up.

A-fucking-MEN!!

You speak my language!!

i've written this line myself about a hundred times: "... I believe in the original vision of America as a shining beacon of hope for the world."

today, in this post, i wrote: "the real crisis is the poisoning of our democracy by greedy, powerful interests ... restoring the best interests of the American people and just plain and simple fundamental democracy to our government should be job one for Democrats seeking my support ..."

the trick to it is to find the right avenues to channel your anger ... those who purport to be allies are not always so ... and the enemies we see are often just the puppets and not the puppet masters ... choosing the right targets and the right allies are the essential first steps of response ...

I am sick of these people who promote nothing but violence and hatred, who think that anyone who doesn't think and feel they way they do is wrong, or anti-America, or a traitor. Since when is it traitorous to want the best for people? Since when it is traitorous to NOT want the men and women of our military to not die in a pre-emptive war, the reason for which was a bunch of trumped up lies. Since when is it traitorous to want people to have access to affordable healthcare? Since when is it traitorous to question the actions of an administration, REGARDLESS of what political affiliation it belongs to? Since when is it traitorous to want this country to get out of the toilet, and to truly aspire to be that which it was designed to be?

Wonderful post, Mythsaje. Wonderful. You have articulated so well how I feel.

Angry Left? Damn Right!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

thanks, Newyawker! I feel like I've just come home.

OutSTANDing rant!

You should clean it up a bit and send it to the News Trib.

:applause: :yourock:

it would lose half its punch.

I actually don't usually use too many cuss words in my essays, but this one just BEGGED for them. LOL

how can we incorporate "regressive" and republican on a bumper sticker, sign or ad?

"those who are already rich, and those who wish fervantly to become the type of person who can grind another human into the dirt just for the shits and giggles of it"

What an insight! I've always wondered why Joe Dirt Nascar is so enamoured of BushCo, even though they have done NOTHING to better his life. But you're right...they have done something...they've told all of the nasty, petty assholes out there that it's OK to hate other people. It's OK to be a bully. It's OK to villify your african-american neighbor because your state took the Klan insignia out of the state flag. It's OK to dehumanize anyone who is not a member of your fire-baptized holiness church. BushCo told all of the cretins whose daddys spent the late 60s and the early 70s beating up guys with long hair that they are the real americans.

Thank you. Absolutely right the fuck on. It's so good to hear others articulate what I'm too angry to say. More!

"All I have to say now is GIVE ME BACK MY FUCKING COUNTRY. You don't deserve it. You don't even know how to appreciate it. You've turned it into a rapacious villain, a diseased mockery of itself, and act as though you've buffed and shined it into a bright shining beacon. Your coat of day-glo paint isn't fooling anyone but yourselves.

Educate our young. Feed our hungry. Provide shelter for those who are lost. Cure those who are sick.

If you can't, or won't, do these things...get the fuck out of the way so WE CAN."

I could not agree more. I feel the exact same way. Every syllable of that could have been written by me, in fact. So, I not only feel your pain, I agree with it and validate it.

Thank you for putting it out there well for all to see, feel, and experience. frustration for some is like an itch that needs to be scratched. This might wake a few sleepers up, inspire the hopeless, and maybe get those who are complacent to get up and do something along with us.

TC

and then things collapse and have to be changed.

Nice rant.

Check out Wes Clark Jr. on The Young Turks.com

"there hasn't been a real relevant "leftist" movement in this country since the 1930s"

HUH??? :wtf: I remember something in the 60's and it seemed to me

there was a little 'noise' going on. :sarcasm:

"GIVE ME BACK MY FUCKING COUNTRY"

I'm not asking for it from them. I'm doing it.
I'm just going to take it. Enough with the asking already...;)

Nice Rant!!!! :thumbsup:

K & R'd!

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