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Edited on Mon Oct-25-10 08:04 PM by 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.
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