Post mortem thread. Why did we lose?

[nilesobek]

216. Your comments cut right to the core.

Those crowds showed up at the inauguration full of hope and fresh campaign promises. When the reality sets in that this country cannot and will not escape its violent dysfunction, refuses to free itself of the corporations and spies ruling them, and ignores the alarming disparity among classes and minorities, then apathy arrives. The crowd doesn't believe anymore because the President cannot keep all his campaign promises. What President ever has?

In some ways, I feel the USA has trapped itself on top of the heap, and the only way to go is down. We cannot remake the Middle East and sustain this country at the same time. Remember when Bush said the oil would pay for the war? Was that 10 trillion dollars ago? We are trapped defending an old European worldwide empire that Europe was not able to sustain itself. How did we inherit this role in the world? Its destroying us.

I don't blame the Democratic Party or the President for these crushing losses today. The problems are far too broad for that, its systemic and we had better find a cure.