Is anyone else sick to death of the "Liberal Smugness" snarl that's going around lately?

[HughBeaumont]

57. I'll answer that on November 9th.

For now, no.

I'm extremely disappointed in this country.

I really thought as time went on, America would finally get in tune with the rest of the industrialized world and embrace a progressive outlook; an America that would finally set precedents in human, civil, labor and voting rights and reverse the mistakes of conservative policies.

It seems that the exact opposite is happening.

The House is in Conservative hands and it's going to take a massive deprogramming of suburban and rural voters for that to change.

The Senate is in play, but how optimistic am I that it's going to change hands this year?

We still have governors and representatives clinging to mythology-based problem solving on human rights.

The economy? What options do workers displaced by automation and offshoring have? Costly college? Lower-wage retail jobs? A Guaranteed Minimum Income that's never going to come to pass in Protestant Work Ethic-addled, "earn yer keep" America?

What exactly does everyone WANT me to do?

Be dishonest?

Shut the hell up until something positive happens?

Stop complaining? Let me tell you something, if no one complained in life, we'd be working 7 days a week, 16 hours a day for $2 a day next to amputee children in firetraps with no benefits . . . and we'd go home to shacks with no plumbing.

GIVE ME SOMETHING TO HOPE FOR.