Democrats' Move to the Right Profoundly Affects our Young People and Our Future.

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172. Hope, change and disappointment

This is just the kind of discussion DU and liberals need and I thank LeTazHot and all who have taken the time to read and post. It is helpful partly because most of the posters have not condemned those who are profoundly disappointed with the times or those who feel Obama and the Dems are doing the best they can in these hard times.

I have voted Democratic since 1951 and I will continue to work and vote for Democrats. But I am sad that some of the time it is only because I know well how bad off the country would be with Republican presidents and legislators; all we have to do is recall Reagan and Bush years and look at the House today.

This does not mean that it was better in the olden days; our beloved country has committed the most heinous crimes under all administrations, against Native Americans, African-Americans, women, gays, workers, immigrants and allowed millions of Americans to live in poverty, poor health, and fear.

Many of us were not proud that hundreds of thousands were killed in our wars; we thought the McCarthy era was shameful; and we hoped that LBJ would resign so that the horrendous Vietnam War would end. But we had hope after Vietnam that if people like Carter and Obama were elected the country would turn away from war and toward the Democratic principles we believed in.

So far during the Obama administration we have not seen those hopes realized and I'm afraid, as are many of the DU posters, that our children and all the world's children are disillusioned and will never know the kind of world we so want them to live in. It does not help to blame Obama because we are all part of a society that has been built on greed, success, power and love of money. But I still have some hope that our planet can change direction before it's too late.