What angers you the most?

[AAO]

OK, I'll go first:

What angers me the most is:

The broadcast and cable channels inability to address reality, instead of the narratives they are force fed by their corporate masters. I've concluded not to trust my lying eyes.

Surely. someone is angrier than little ol' me?

[Maedhros]

1. We launch drone missiles at tribal people who LOOK like they MIGHT be associating with

people who COULD be "terrorists", end up killing a bunch of women and children, then brush it all under the rug.

All to assuage imaginary fears stoked by propaganda.

[RC]

32. ^^^THIS^^^

And yet we dare criticize Russia for doing the same thing we did to Iraq??

[woo me with science]

2. That our ostensibly free country is now a surveillance state

and that the corruption and authoritarianism have gone so deep that you can't even talk politics on the internet without disembodied government voices lying to your face and spewing disinformation and manipulation.

Mostly that the people who claim to represent us are assisting in looting human lives into devastation for profit, and treating us with utter contempt as they do it.

[Ohio Joe]

3. Right now... Equality

Racism is more out and open then at any point I can remember (I was born in 63), repugs are proud of their racism. At the same time they are also setting womens rights back at a frightening rate and with the proliferation of MRA's, they are having an easy time of it. LGBT rights have made some progress, getting a good amount of press with each small victory but it seems to me that the gains are modest, and hatred still the norm.

I expect the right to be against equality but it really gets me that it has generally fallen by the wayside as far as the left is concerned.

[treestar]

4. People who don't vote and people who watch the M$M for news and

think they know it all as a result. And simply start parroting the latest Republican crap.

[Rex]

5. That we are an Oligarchy. That we continue to head in the wrong direction

toward equality in pay and rights. A lot has been done on the federal level by the WH, but the states (some) seem to be going in the wrong direction as fast as they can.

[Cofitachequi]

6. I try not getting angry. No use.

My concerns over global climate is aggravated by so many deniers of the problem, but that just makes hard work and focus more of a priority. All the more reason to avoid anger and focus on the hard work ahead.

[woo me with science]

9. History disagrees. Anger is useful.

It gets attention and it rallies support. It taps into people's visceral sense of justice and builds resolve to take action.

It is an important motivating force for major political change.

[Cofitachequi]

10. Typically anger rallies the dimwitted. And in regards to climate change

the dimwitted are the problem and not likely to be an ally in the solution.

[woo me with science]

11. The dimwitted position on climate change is complacency.

It's the "everything is just fine" brigade that threatens our survival.

[polichick]

14. Wise people act BECAUSE of anger, not OUT of it. Refusing to get angry...

helps nobody because the energy is internalized and eventually comes out inappropriately at the wrong people.

[Cofitachequi]

19. Anger is why there is a site called Free Republic.

Reason is why there is a site called Democratic Underground.

[polichick]

22. "Reason" is what smart people use to act BECAUSE of anger...

Without an appropriate amount of anger, Dems will keep getting conned - nothing to be proud of.

[sabrina 1]

24. There is such a thing as justifiable anger. Anyone who isn't angry at some of the major injustices

in the world, is part of the problem.

Complacency is what allows injustices to continue. Anger that such injustices exist is what motivates people to do something about it.

[flvegan]

7. Selfishness.

And I'd put money on that covering 90% of the replies to this question. It's an ego thing for far too many.

[LeftyMom]

8. Los Angeles.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

12. These pretzels that are making me thirsty!

[hfojvt]

13. When Duke makes it to the final four, or beyond

and when the Yankees win the pennant (again).

Also, people who can't seem to talk about anything but sports, or the weather. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024643187

[NuclearDem]

15. Imperial dick waving and human rights violations.

No matter who does it.

[polichick]

16. Greed. Corruption. Willful ignorance. Blind allegiance, which often adds up to...

willful ignorance.

[RebelOne]

17. Our Georgia governor Nathan Deal

refusing to extend Medicaid. He said that Georgia could not afford it.

I have a friend who lost her job and her unemployment benefits expired in February. She is in dire need of medical care for possible cancer. She has had no health insurance since she lost her job. And that SOB governor would rather see people die for lack of medical assistance.

[el_bryanto]

18. What angers me the most is getting angry - nothing makes me angrier than when i get angry. nt

[libodem]

20. Somehow

Dick Cheney got that heart. Hacking his pacemaker was his best delusion,evah. One could only dream.

Where is my garage door opener.

[NCTraveler]

21. Capitalism that is regulated by the 1%. nt.

[RainDog]

23. poverty

there is no reason for a nation this rich to have so many people hurting and in need.

[Victor_c3]

25. The war on Iraq - everything associated with it

from the waste in civilian life to the waste in American Soldier lives to the waste of money and resources and to the people who supported and perpetrated the war.

As a disabled veteran produced by the war, I take it very personally. You could say that it was my fault for joining the Army, but when I joined I was 17 at the time and it was 1997 I never saw the wars in the middle east coming. I was a product of my upbringing and I was totally gullible for believing that our military was a tool primarily used to make the world a better place.

I get to live with it and its reminders nearly constantly while everyone around me either pretends it never happened or just wants me to shut up about it and move on with my life.

[CFLDem]

26. The plutocracy

Screwing the little people every day and living high on the hog for it.

[Tikki]

27. Corps/Co. screwing with the environment for profit…instead of trying to find a way...

to profit without messing up the beauty and balance.


Tikki

[lamp_shade]

28. People who eat with their mouth open. n/t

[Brother Buzz]

29. Packages of ten hot dogs and packages of eight buns

I have to buy four packages of dogs and five packages of buns to make it work out even, but I'm getting tired of eating forty hot dogs in one slog.

It's evil, evil, I tell you, hot dog manufacturers and bun bakers are in collusion to drive up sales, I tell you.

[HughBeaumont]

30. Middle/Working/Poor people defending Re-Branded Feudalism.

Double anger goes towards people who call themselves "Democrats" doing so.

There is NO VALUE WHATSOEVER in right-wing economic policies. This brand of garbage has been tried and inexplicably repeated for 33-40 years and has unquestionably failed the American middle/working/poor. The only percentage of people Re-branded Feudalism works for is the upper echelon who are already successful.

What's worse is that they offer the false dilemma of "If Not Unbridled Capitalism, then Only Socialism?" when you suggest some modicum of fairness; like, say, paying all workers better or at least to keep pace with inflation. I don't know, perhaps we should just give our way a TRY? We TRIED and STILL PRACTICE Re-Branded Feudalism. Re-Branded Feudalism FAILED and CONTINUES to FAIL the middle/working/poor.

[steve2470]

31. the refusal of the RW to admit global warming

We're talking global damage/destruction. So, my anger point is closely allied to yours.