Reply #15: I empathize with you

[AusGail]

Even though I live in Australia, I know exactly how you're feeling. I feel enraged and embarrassed with the government that has been foisted onto us. I am a member of the Australian Labor Party, and at our monthly branch meetings we spend "general business" discussing all that is wrong with our country and the world in general. However, all it seems to achieve is preaching to the converted. When you feel enraged, write letters to the editors of newspapers, offer to do voluntary work for the Democrats, start your 2008 campaign NOW.

I find that belonging to a political party, it does give me a bit of a warped sense of what the average voter is actually thinking because we tend to mix with like-minded thinkers. It never ceases to amaze me how many people think that John Howard is a nice person. He's the leader that Australia has that looks like an elderly version of Harry Potter. He is actually an arrogant, mean spirited, brown nosing liar.

Probably another positive thing that you could do is to convince as many people as you can to vote. That is not a problem in this country because it is compulsory. If it wasn't compulsory here, we would never get rid of this conservative government. Probably one good reason why Howard is at the moment trying to change the law regarding this matter.

Maintain your rage and use your energy to bring down Bush and all his buddies. Maybe Cheney might take them all hunting. We could only dream.

Gail