How Do You Handle Having Insight

[lynettebro440]

I have a question for the old timers on here (and the newcomers with poetic insight)on how you have handled having insight to all that has happened in the last 50 years.

I started reading DU back in 2004 right after the war had started. I was relieved to know that there were people in this world that at least had a grasp of reality and tried like hell to change the world. It took me almost a year to post after that and was pretty angry at the time around 2005 because I had the insight to see what was going to happen. Those were the days when Republicans owned the world, no matter where you went some red neck mother fucker was shoving in your face their red, white and blue bullshit about how their guy was so great and they would show us, and how they were going to keep us safe from terror. Through all this bullshit I just shook my head and said under my breath, you just wait asshole.

I would like to know from those that have shared these last 50 years of my life in this nation, how you can make some sense of the directions we have gone since then.

I was one of the lucky ones that had the pleasure of growing up in a dysfunctional family (you know the ones back in the 50's, raised on incest, injury and insult), went to school with the crazy ass nuns and priests of the 60's (you know the ones, there just now figuring out they were all perverts). I got to see JFK, MLK and RFK all die in a few years apart. I got to witness racism at it's finest, watching people being attacked by hoses and dogs and called horrible names all because of their skin color. I witnessed the womens movement, Roe vs Wade before and after, civil rights movement.

I became of age just in time for gas shortages where you could only by gas on Thursdays since your plate on your car said so. I bought my first house at 11% interest rate (which was a steal) because the normal rate was 17% on mortgages. My children were born about the time Ronny "I really do have Alzheimer's" Reagan took the office. Oh yeah, the good old days of just say no, abstinence, retardation of the nation etc. I had to much insight during this time with being a person who created an enticement bill in my home state of NE which when following the source of an underground child ring that was happening, landed on the door of papa georges house. (Read Senator DeCamps book Franklin Credit Union). I was delighted when Billy C took office, I was 30 and I sure needed some kind of change from the geriatric, nazi age I had lived in for 12 years with Ronny and Papa George.

But during those wonderful 90's I watched a bad case of greed, bloating and more bullshit and people became more self centered then any time in my life. Although we had battled racism, sexism and abortions I watched my generation become pussies, worried about losing everything, covering there kids in protected covering for fear they might get a few bumps and bruises, buying gas guzzling SUV's and F1 pickup trucks, big over sized houses and watched most of them become over sized themselves. Then came Georgie Jr.

It scary now to think back and realize that I tried like hell to tell people that putting this stupid douche bag in office was one of the biggest mistakes we could make in history. I sat in disbelief that nobody was understanding what all this was meaning. I am not fond of having this insight. I had it back in the days with my dysfunctional family (I walked away as an adult and never looked back), had it with the crazy ass catholics listening in disbelief to some of their crazy shit. It has never caused me to fit well in society because I'm amazed that people don't see it too. I'm tired of being called crazy, liberal, hippie......when in all honesty I simply can see shit before others can. I'm no rocket scientist but has this really been this hard for people to see what decisions they make decide the outcome for all of us?

I'm happy to say that since having this insight I have avoided the numerous problems that come if I didn't have it. I'm not religious, I stopped the crazy dysfunction in the next generation of my gene pool, I stayed under the radar and don't have an arrest record, I simplified my life back in 2001 to a point that most people think I'm weird but hey I didn't bloat so I'm not paying the price.

I guess the death of Carlin has got me thinking. He was probably right, all this shit is bullshit and it's bad for you. Just needed to vent and wonder how other people on here handle knowing shit, watching it happen and then dealing with it afterwords. Thanks for listening.