So many of us have been accused on here of wanting a Glorious Revolution. Let's get out with it!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

113. I think it's the case with me

I'm old enough to remember everything from the late 1950s, so I remember above all, how hopeful and optimistic the 1960s were, and it annoys me to see them reduced to "sex,drugs, and rock and roll."

From 1968 onward, it was one blow after another, including the oil crisis of 1973 and the following years of high inflation, Reagan's election and the way the Dems barely put up a fight against his policies, three years of unemployment and under-employment thanks to Reaganomics, the illegal wars in Central America, and so on and so on, more hope and optimism in 1992, only to have it dashed with things like NAFTA, Welfare Reform, and the repeal of Glass-Steagall, all of which set the stage for our current economic distress. Then I saw the presidential campaign up close for the first time as a first soldier, and it was terribly disillusioning. Now we have as our president a Tony Blair type who thinks his job is not to offend the Republicans when we really needed an FDR.

I can no longer bear to watch the news on TV--it's too immediate--and reading newspapers online only makes me despair at the sheer--it's not stupidity, it's worse, it's deliberate ignorance of such a large portion of the population.

Whenever I leave the country, whether it's to go to Japan, Scandinavia, England, even Cuba, I find myself relaxing, just to be away from witnessing the decay of this country (not that other countries don't have problems, but the U.S. has so many that could have been avoided if the Democrats had been more savvy and gutsy) and when I return, I clearly see the undercurrent of tension and anxiety and anger in this country, as well as the propaganda in the mass media.