A lot of you guys say that you're mad...

[MrScorpio]

But, what I'm really hearing from you guys is that you're frustrated.

Of course, you have every right to be frustrated. Things are really messed up, aren't they?

Well, pretty much NOTHING is going as planned. Too many people with too many opposing motivations are screwing every thing up. Guess what, for some people who have a lot of stake in the status quo, THAT really is the plan.

That's what we're up against... The Top Two Percent. And they're circling their wagons right now and calling in all their markers. They have too many people working for them, instead of us, in Government and those people who are aptly called "Teabaggers" are working for them too (even if they're too apoplectic to know it).

Let me tell you what I'd love to hear (Me and a few others):

- How can progressives organize and act to counter the efforts of the Top Two Percent?

- How can we stop one half of the remaining ninety-eight percent from trying to destroy the other half?

- What is it going to take to get those in Government to act in behalf of the majority rather than the monied few?

- How are we going to make the media pay for being willing fifth columnists for their corporate masters, rather than being a forth estate for the good of the truth?

- What is it going to take to undo the permanent war economy, which drains lives and resources and promotes conflict, rather than deters it?

Until fundamental changes are made to bring democracy to the forefront, rather than the corporatism which serves the interests of the Top Two Percent, none of us should expect anything else except the present state of affairs. We've been expecting short cuts. But, it should be of no surprise that they haven't been working.

Rather that frustration which you can call it anger or outrage or disappointment or whatever, what really we need are calm, cool and viable answers. Answers that are straightforward and that can be implemented in a realistic and practical fashion.

In other words, it's time to be results oriented.

I have to hand it to DUers, who as a rule are a really smart bunch of folks. But what I'm getting right now is a bunch of frustrated outrage.

Unfortunately, the result of outrage is that it usually draws attention on itself and usually only for its own sake.

So unless progressives and DUers and Dems with properly motivated priorities get their act together, realistically we should only expect more suffering and the continuing frustration that goes along with it.

You can go ahead now and let it all hang out.