so, they 'fixed' it...?

I don't even have to look at the details to know we are screwn, and that we still have no taxation for the top 2%


yeah, they 'fixed' it alright...they continue to fix the game of our economy in their favor, they continue to fix the elections and they are fixing the markets to drive us all into poverty and starvation.

what about this 'deal' is a deal at all? a deal implies that there are two sides who get something.
and how convenient that it was all orchestrated to go to the 11th hour, so that no-one can try to change anything or stop it.
and if we thought that the obama we elected would break out his line item veto pen or *gasp* his executive order pen - well that was a candidate we saw a long time ago on a stage, not the current WH resident. He is perfectly happy just falling in line with the bullies...


I used to think he was brave and courageous to take on our country at such a time as 2008, when we had so many problems facing us. But now i think he really just doesn't want that job. I thought we'd be done with guantanomo, out of iraq and afgan-fuckedupistan, thought we'd burn bush and cheney at the stake for the evil POS's they are, that we'd take back our jobs and houses, that wall st would get handcuffs not bonuses, that those who deserve to be taxed well and often would be taxed...and yes, I believed that our joy and exuberance and hope would create a wave of change
I didn't expect him to do it ALL, but I certainly believed that with a congressional majority there would be more chance for the above to happen. once we lost majority, i was still up for the fight... for a while.

...and now the worm has turned and all that is left is the hollow realization that it just doesn't matter anymore.

Not who I vote for, not what i think, not how my life is affected

because those who hold the power on both sides of the coin have 'fixed' the game for themselves, now all that's left is to scramble for the crumbs

(apologies to Robbie Robertson)
The Night They Drove New Dixie Down

Otto Jake is the name and I served on the Weimar train
‘Til Zhukov’s cavalry came and tore everything up again
In the winter of ’45, we were hungry and barely alive
By May the seventh, Berlin had fell
It’s a time I remember oh so well!

The night they drove new Dixie down
And the bombs were falling
The night they drove old Hitler down
The people were calling!
‘Sha-lala la la la lah…
Nana nah nana na na nah!’

Back with my wife in Bavaria, when one day she called to me
“Otto, quick come see, there goes George Bush's grandaddy!
Now I don’t mind cracking worker heads, and I
Don’t care if Deutschmark’s only war spent;
Ya take all ya need and throw out the rest
But they should never have taken away poor Rudolph Hess!

The night they drove old Hitler down
And the bombs were killing
The night they drove new Dixie down
All the children were singing
They went ‘La, lalala la la
Nana na na nananah!’

Like my father before me
I was a very rich gent!
And like my brother before me, who took a fascist stand
He was just forty-three, proudly depraved, but a commie laid him in his grave
I swear by the mud people under my feet
You can’t raise a Jake when he’s trying to get something free!

The night they drove new Dixie down
And the bombs were winging
The night they drove old Hitler down
The kids were all singing
The went ‘La, lala la la la!’
‘Na, nana nah nah nah!
Nana nah Nana nah nah nah!

Finally, in 1989, dear Hitler came back
With Reagan’s help, the Berlin Wall fell!
The revolution was crushed, defeated forever!
And fascism was back in the drivers’ seat!

The night they drove the USSR down
No one was singing
The night the Great Revolution ended
The people were crying
They went ‘no no no no no no!
nah nah nah nah nah nana nah!’
And they can all just go to hell!

especially when the hits just keep coming, 2000, 2004, the Iraq War, Katrina, the financial collapse, the bank bailout
and now this. Where do we turn and who are our leaders?

Remember the powerful would like us to be silent and demoralized. That is how they win.

Somehow we have to regroup and rediscover the hope we felt in 2008. That was not Obama's hope; it was ours.
He just stirred it within us at a time when we had felt diminished from the assault of the Bush years.

We can reclaim it as humans always have. Maybe not now. There will be more hits coming.
We must prepare for that. Hold to the vision. Hold to your values. They do matter. We matter.
That is what we must remember as we struggle through this dark passage.

Today I will find my hopefullness in a walk with my kids, a swim in the Lake, and maybe a good night's sleep. I will be gratefiul i have a paycheck to cash, groceries in the fridge, and a roof overhead...

I agree that the hope has to come from within, it also comes from my connections to people i trust and care about in my life. my "tribe" is truly what will get us through this ...my work has to be growing that and getting our ducks in a row, preparing for the continuing onslaught of strange crumbling of society...

:hug:
hang in there!

As you say, we do draw the strength from our shared connections. That is so critical to remember at a time like this.
Enjoy your beautiful children and the renewal you find in nature today. You are so right that even in the midst of
these crushing defeats, we can still hold to the goodness in our lives and be thankful.