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In reply to the discussion: Has the Left Surrendered? - BillMoyers.com [View all]Bonobo
(29,257 posts)I left Japan in 1995 to raise the kids in what I thought was a better place. But the politics was eating me alive from the inside. The killings, the war, the poverty, the cost of health care.
I wanted it to change. More than anything, I wanted to kick out Bush, to repudiate everything he stood for. I was too optimistic and thought that Obama was going to represent that repudiation. It didn't and my disillusionment came down hard on me. I could no longer pretend that that wasn't who we were. It was just the final straw. It was the end of my hope and it had been building for a long time. I just stupidly thought that 2008 would be the change I was looking for,
I wanted war-crime investigations. I felt they were needed to clean ourselves up. When they didn't come, I knew which way the wind was blowing.