Weekend Economists Going to the Dickens December 16-18, 2011

[Fuddnik]

48. I'll be logging off soon.

I don't know when, if ever I'll log back on to DU.

Trying to point out reality to people outside this forum is like trying to convince a raging fundie that fatal contradictions exist in the Wholly Buybull. You hold the truth up to their faces, and they deny, swarm and attack. I shudder to think what the next year brings for this board, and even worse for the country. And the world.

Forty years ago, a Republican president decided that I should be able to vote at age 19. I took that first vote in 1972, and used it to try to run him out of office. In those 40 years, I think I missed one election in 1988. And in that time, I've never voted for a Republican.

Now, This president, and the Democratic majorities since 2006, have made me realize that I can never again vote for a Democrat again in good conscience. Especially after votes over the last month, and the last week.

Democratic mayors, in collusion with the Democratic Administration in Washington have beaten, gassed, arrested, and dispersed the occupation movement, coast to coast. We've renewed the Patriot Act. We've added indefinite detention without charge or trial to the arsenal. Wall Street, unprosecuted, sneers at the public. Banks, utilities, insurance companies continue to fleece the 99% with impunity.

Our current government and capitalist system want to privatize and deregulate everything in sight. To take away any interference between the lion and the zebra. People around here just don't realize they're zebras.