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[merrily]

222. "I wish for someone to prove I'm wrong."

As my niece once told me, "Auntie, you have to be careful what you wish for. The wish fairy has no return counter."

No one but a damnable liar or an ostrich in deep denial is going to attempt to prove you wrong, though I imagine both can be found on many message boards.

And being in reality is almost always better than remaining in denial. So, I recommend that we all wish for more people on the left who will tell the truth.

I think you told the truth in your second post, so my wish is granted.

(FYI; This is not going to help much because I don't remember the details, but a poster on another board mentioned some other law that Clinton signed that is even more directly connected to the global economic collapse than repeal of Glass Steagall.)

but we aren't supposed to "think" and "think about" all this especially in connection to the Current state of affairs.

To my mind, that is the only political issue worth thinking about anymore, that and what, if anything can be done to help ourselves, given that neither major party wants to help the 99% very much. That is why I am desperately searching for: whether there is anything that we can do about it.

I don't believe that online petitions, email petitions, calls, letters or emails to the White House or members of Congress do diddly. Is there anything that might? If not, is jawing about it endlessly a waste of time? IOW, if going to hell in a handbasket is what we are going to do no matter what, I may as well forget about politics.

The day leadership in both parties realize We've realized it--will be the End of our voting rights, imo---with 33 states Already making it damned near impossible to comply with unreasonable requirements? What is the DOJ doing about that?

Actually, the D of J did file some suits before the 2012 election. I am sure the suits filed were against states in which Obama thought "vote caging" might make the difference between him and Romney. I know Pennsy was one of them.

I know that because I thought to myself "Abortion is a constitutional right, but the D of J could not be arsed to sue over requiring transvaginal wands, but they can sue to help Obama win an election. " Candidly, I don't like to even think about abortion, but just imagine if the exercise of any other Constitutional required penetration of anyone's genitalia against one's will.

On the other hand, the more the parties become like each other, the less we have to worry about vote caging. As the saying goes, "If voting really mattered, they'd never let us do it."

It's not easy to accept the stunning revelation that "we dems" are just as Stupid and have been every bit as "snookered" as those we ridicule for "blindly supporting" those who clearly Don't represent our best interests...How many times have I laughed and asked "Why do "they" keep drinking the koolaid" (as I was cheerfully poured another glass by my dem leadership"....ahh, yes--and to some degree (sans hysteria) those who we are Most polarized with are BOTH correct in their criticisms of "the others".

Yes, it is indeed embarrassing. And awkward, especially since our only hope, if we have any at all, is going to be to unite the 99%, from the Republicans we've ridiculed to the cops we've called pigs, especially the cops. (By "we" I mean the left, not necessarily you or I.)

On the other hand, there was a major difference between the parties for a time and a lot of effort and money has been spent by both major parties to convince us just how different they were from each other.

But, facing the truth is step 1. Telling the truth is step 2. I hope like anything there is a step 3 and we figure out what it is.

Well,