Reply #3: I wasn't really angry until November 2004

[Angry Girl]

I voted for the first time in my life then, for Kerry. Hey, anything except Bush! I found it un-frickin-believable that so many people could fall for that scumbag's cheap media tricks.

Then I watched our votes get stolen. And I watched as reams of statistical evidence were presented, along with eye witness reports of disenfranchisement, ballot box tampering, and worse. And not a single corporate newspaper said a damned thing. And of the politicians, only Conyers and Lautenberg spoke out - the rest ducked inside their air-conditioned offices with theri plush carpetting and carried on with their business as usual.

And I guess that was the day American Democracy died for me. (Now I believe it was much, much earlier but that's how I felt at the time.)

So now I'm angry that greedy, murderous religious extremists run the country like some primitive backyard dictatorship, destroying SO many lives around the world, and plunging us into an economic abyss from which we shall never recover.

The mainstream press, who is supposed to inform the public for the greater good, disgusts me the most. Politicians? You expect them to be after money and power. I mean, politicians are about as trustworthy as car salesmen -- everybody knows that. But journalists? Used to be they went into their profession because they were idealistic, they believed that information should be free and available to all because the truth allows for transparent and honest government.

But true journalists are now being hunted and killed. All we get on TV anymore are toothy actors reading the Official Truth from hastily written scripts. Newspapers and radio are now simply echo chambers for the Bushies. It's all a huge, Orwellian lie and, yes, dammit, I'm mad as hell about it but, unlike poor Mr. Beale, I HAVE to take it -- at least as long as I live in this country....

Oy. I must now go play DDR before I explode....
Peace, out!