Reply #1: Honestly, I see rage here at DU but I don't see it around me in

[joemurphy]

my everyday life. Indiana is very Republican and Bush is not popular even here. But I don't see rage. I see weariness and resignation. People here just got through paying property taxes that are 4 to 5 times what they were 5 years ago. Add gasoline prices to that. Good jobs here are hard to find.

What I see is everyone just beaten down and gloomy. Partly it's because they know Bush is a loser. Partly it's because they don't see Dems offering anything the least bit better.

Personally, sometimes I'm enraged and sometimes I'm in despair. Things are just awful in this country now -- it's like I'm living in a strange, unknown place. But the worse part is I don't hear much good from Democrats either. I don't hear any kind of agenda to address our problems. I just see a lot of shirts and ties blowing off and doing nothing to combat what's happening around me.

The Republicans are dangerous, corrupt, and incompetent. But I don't see the Dems leading any sort of groundswell of reform. And that worries me a lot.