Reply #106: Wow, what a post!

[NJCher]

You have managed to write my story, too. I loved how you expressed this situation in the second paragraph and in particular your comments about reality television.

We watched election 2000 with some liberal friends of ours. After the election was handed to bush, I immediately went back into protest mode (I'd been protesting on the streets about Clinton's treatment) and even formed an action group to work on his defeat. I was heartbroken when my friends with whom we watched the election told me no when I asked them to go to a protest. As it was expressed, "We don't do things like that." This was one of the worst moments of my life--realizing people I really cared about didn't share my passion for action. I still cry real tears when I think about it.

This was assuaged somewhat when I found out the husband in this couple donated considerable sums of money to liberal causes. But the wife--I've never really forgiven her for that and for saying that she'll just "keep her head down" when things get too fascist here. And this woman is Jewish and who had relatives who died in the Holocaust.

One of my favorite bumper stickers is "If you're not enraged, you're not paying attention." For the life of me, I just don't understand how these people can be so engaged with frivolity and how they can ignore the signs of what is happening to our country.


Cher