Reply #45: I understand.

[LiberalAndProud]

I am where you are at least once each week, but at the end of the day most of the things that aren't being addressed happened under large Republican majorities. Do you think they won't commit equally egregious crimes when they are given another chance?

Let me make this clear. If I don't vote for Blue Dogs, I don't vote. I have exactly one Democrat representing me. One. And Democrats don't come any bluer than mine. If I had a choice between a real Democrat and a DINO, there would be *no* contest. I don't have that choice. I never have.

Our guys don't stand up when they should, but the harm that Bush and Cheney inflicted will not be undone soon, perhaps not ever. We could have made so many strides toward progress except that we have to keep cleaning up behind the RepubliCons. At least we don't leave so many things needing fixing when we get to set the agenda. FDR was able to accomplish so much mostly because he had so much time.

Carter after Nixon/Ford,
Clinton after Reagan/Bush and now
Obama after Bush, Jr*.

Honest to God I don't know how to resolve this. Big money buys it all. We really are stuck in a lesser of evils system.

When Clinton was in office, my brother, out of extreme frustration, expressed the opinion that maybe we just needed to hand it over to the Republicans to speed the onset of the revolution. But we won't have a revolution until the pain becomes much much worse than it is right now. And it won't be just us revolting. Consider the tea party people. Do you think we will have more in common with them in the midst of chaos than we do now? Somehow I doubt it.