Reply #76: Gosh, had I only known I was the one letting these criminals come back again and again

[deutsey]

I would've stopped them long ago. I'm sorry everyone...I'll stop them from now on.

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What do you think I've been trying to do with other activists over the past few decades? In case you haven't noticed there's been an active, coordinated, well-funded rightwing reaction over the past 40 years or so to progressivism in America. They have succeeded despite all that we've done to counterbalance it.

Do I want to see what the next one will be like? You ask that as if I have a fucking choice in the matter. Did I want to see Reagan? Did I want to see Bush I, the '94 Reaction, Bush II stealing one, maybe two elections? No, but they happened anyway and these bastards got away with everything they did despite the protests I go to, the legislators I contact, the letters to the editors I write, the actions I organize, the campaigns I volunteer for.

Tell me, what am I missing? What's the hidden secret to preventing the pardons, the contempt for democratic processes, the secret and/or unconstitutional wars, the looting of our treasury by the elites in this country, the dismantling of the "safety net", the strangle hold on our Congress by lobbyists, authoritarianism crushing our liberties, the mocking disregard for people like me struggling to make ends meet every month while Bush's corporate cronies live like feudal lords?

Enlighten me.