Why Are So Many DUers Angry Right Now?

[THUNDER HANDS]

Is it the heat outside that's making everyone so pissed off?

We should all be used to Bush by now, so that can't be it.

I don't know, but in the past week I've read some pretty nasty things here and it seems like we've taken an angry turn for the worse. Or maybe it's just a select few people.

Am I wrong?

[leftofthedial]

1. none of your damned business

;-)

[demnan]

2. Our astrology friends might suggest

that it is because of the close proximity of Mars the war planet! It's not too hot here in D.C. in fact we've had a lovely August so far (which is about as common as a lovely February). Let me suggest that we DUers are frustrated because it seems that Bush is going to get away with yet another lie and the legs of the 16 word lie in the SOUS have been cut off.

[Avalux]

3. I'm angry

because it's going to be really, really hot here in Texas today.
I'm angry because my garage door broke sometime last night and the spring flew off and dented my car.
I'm angry because my daughter's school has cut back on their gifted/talented program. It comes out of special ed funding, and apparently the smart kids don't need special attention.
I'm angry because no one seems to really care that our soldiers are dying in Iraq and even when they come home, will be mentally scarred.
AND -
I'm angry because even after watching the debate on CSPAN last night, not one of the candidates really excited me. I can't put my support behind any of them right now. I WANT A LEADER.

[On the Road]

4. I Think People Have Grown Used to the Community

At first, DU was a welcome refuge. Many of us didn't regularly talk to other like-minded people. There was a great sense of unity around opposition to Bush.

Different loyalties to Democratic candidates emphasize the differences in what we are FOR. Our own candidate losing ground to a fellow Democrat is a smaller version of Al Gore losing the White House to Bush, and is frustrating.

I also think more purely social events would help.

[Booberdawg]

14. Great point ribofunk

"Our own candidate losing ground to a fellow Democrat is a smaller version of Al Gore losing the White House to Bush, and is frustrating."

Good insight. I think that explains a LOT of the infighting and bickering.

[TacticalPeek]

15. True enough.

It can be a downer if you see your horse as fading.

Look at it more as seperate fingers closing into a fist.

[lcordero]

5. Angry?

I hope that DUers stay angry.
After roughly 250 service member have died
another 800+ have been wounded
12,000+ Iraqis have died and countless of lives have been destroyed and 3 million jobs have left the US

After all of the lies DUers should be getting angrier.

[havocmom]

6. Mars?

Dunno, everybody seems about normal.

Just watching our beloved country being attacked and devestated by the same corporate raiders who made off with everybody's retirement nest egg and jobs?

Listening to a buch of apologists for global warming while enduring a terrible hot summer with fires buring all over the west?

Facing the beginning of the school year with fears that our wee people will be subjected to propaganda cloaked as religious expression?

News that proverty makes us likely to be security risks in a culture that strives to make us all poor?

OK, I am tired... someone else please take over the typing?

[NightTrain]

7. The humidity in Connecticut these days...

...is every bit as nasty as it was during the summer I lived in Florida. It's been this way for, like, a week-and-a-half, and will continue to be this way for at least a week longer. It's like inhaling Vaseline, fer chrissake! And I'm damned sick and tired of it.

As for why so many others around here are in such a pissy mood, you'll have to ask them.

[short bus president]

8. I dunno about anyone else,

but I'm SEXUALLY FRUSTRATED!

Thank you, that is all.

[THUNDER HANDS]

12. HAHAHA

I think that's the root cause of a lot of DU frustrations.

:)

[UrbScotty]

9. I'm not angry... I'M MAD!!!!!!!!

MAD, MAD, MMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kamika]

10. maybe because ppl getting back to work

i know i am and im not happy about it

[asjr]

11. angry

I think we here at DU mostly feel the same way--frustrated, angry, tired of waiting. I am tired of waiting for the media to actually give us news. Each time they come out with something that is relative to the way our country is going regarding this administration, we get excited and think they will continue. We should know by now that will not be the case. We will get a few crumbs every now and then, but never the full loaf. Not only do we need a new president, we need a truthful media and I am afraid that will never happen. I don't know if some special spell was cast over them or they are all being paid to keep their mouths shut, either way it is maddening.

[TacticalPeek]

13. If the premise holds water, it is consistent with

alledged polling reported by the alledgedly free press that supposedly 'democrats' are increasingly 'angry' at the 'president'. Hoodathunk?

I think it could be like a growling stomach (with pangs), having smelled blood in the water but no yum-yum yet. Like being teased in our cage with meat dangling just beyond the bars, this leads not to blissful purring.

With the SOTU and then the redacted pages, a brief light of media coverage broke through the clouds, thanks mainly to Tweety and Andrea Mitchell and others at NBC, Walter Pincus at WaPo and Dana Milbank even before the Amb Wilson story broke. That gets the blood up. And now it's wait time.

Personally, I'll have to satisfy myself with licking my chops and drooling until September. Investigation of the outing of Wilson's wife is already underway. September brings with it the Senate inquiry, a decision by Clark, end of vacations for hill staffers and press, etc.

Meanwhile, the stomach does growl. Dog days.

[Lady Freedom]

16. I am DOT angry!

I am HORNY!