Where the hell is the OUTRAGE!

[fooj]

When will enough be enough?

:banghead:


Peace.

[MnFats]

1. I don't know. There is new outrage every single day.

you would think the streets of every city and every campus would be filled with angry mobs.

[Crazy8s]

22. Americans are still too comfortable

and still too trusting of what they're fed by corporate media. When a draft comes knocking, when they start to feel more than just a pinch of fiscal and personal discomfort from outsourcing/gas prices/tighter gov't control, they will begin to holler.

Because we no longer have the media on our side, or at least at nuetral center, a good deal of folks who just roll along in their own little lives won't become outraged until the ballbat of what is happening hits them hard on the head. Let's hope our country can survive the wait!

[Mojambo]

2. Turn to C-Span

Al Gore seems sufficiently outraged.

[Swamp Rat]

5. Thanks for the heads-up

That speech should be on every channel.

[thecai]

3. I've Been Asking Those Questions...

...for many, many years now. No one believes anything until it's too late.

[Jamastiene]

4. I've wondered what drug is numbing the pain

and sensibilities of other people and how I managed to miss the memo on where to get it. It's gotta be drugs. That's a classic CIA counterculture disabling technique.

[Hekate]

9. Super-sized fast food & TV

What else? These past few years (i.e. since Dubya was installed) I have repeatedly wondered what alien species is using my country as a giant human feed lot... Mooooove over Jim, that Carl's Jr. burger is miiiine.

Hekate
Want ketchup on those endorphins?

[earth mom]

6. I'm TOTALLY OUTRAGED! But...

no one is listening. :argh: :cry:

[Az]

7. Outrage is a developing social condition

Typically when people hear something that is terrible they are offended by it. But the conditions necissary to cause them to rise up in outrage requires others around them to be reacting the same.

Thus outrage depends on communication and similarity of view on the subject causing the outrage. And with the media effectively presenting the conservatives view the only outrage generated is aimed at lawyers and activist judges.

The right learned about social forces and outrage during the Veitnam war. The media covered the revulsion towards the war and this created more awareness of the problems with the war which in turn lead to more revulsion to the war. It created a feed back cycle that lead to outrage by the public.

It was this outrage that lent its power to the left. A shared anger towards a common foe. The right learned from this. And thus they set about to quell the medium by which such outrage could be directed against them.

[Carolab]

8. Are you outraged in public (other than here)?

Reason I ask is I think there is a lot of outrage out there, but it's not obvious. People are afraid to be publicly outraged, don't you think? Maybe they think they are in the minority. That's why I just tell everyone I can what I know and release the rage by enlightening as many as I can. In time, if we all do that, there will be critical mass. In time, we will understand that the low approval ratings for * are because the majority is outraged. Don't you think so?

[fooj]

10. I believe that you are right!

We have to live this outrage! This is about integrity. This is about honor. This is about JUSTICE. Patriotic times call for patriotic measures...

"We shall have to repent in this generation, not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the apalling silence of the good people."--MLK


Peace.:patriot:

[Disturbed]

11. Millions are brainwashed by the Lame Stream Media..

and still believe that the Bush Junta wouldn't really screw them over as they have been doing and will continue to do. Others are oblivious to what is happening to Amnerika. There are also those that believe that Bush and his thugs are good for Amerika and are helping Amerikans by the trickle down theory of econ by not taxing the whealthy and spreading democracy. Then there are those that are sure the Bush Junta is going to push Amerika towards more of the Christian ideals that they believe in.

Amerika is seriously fractured and the Dem Party has been in an appeasment mode ever since they laid down and allowed the Bush Junta to steal the 2000 Election.

[Kindigger]

12. Carolab

I don't know what they're afraid of, but they are. Most of the people I meet are on a hair trigger, as if waiting for someone else to say something so they can spew.
I help them along daily, sometimes the results are astonishing....almost scary. :wow: I should be getting a psychiatrist's wages for what I do. :)

[Az]

20. Not enough

This is a very large nation. Most people form their opinion of what is going on and what is valid based on their viewing of news and current affairs on TV. Its central to how people figure out what to do these days.

Even a great number of progressive liberals being pissed in public is not going to have the impact we hope for. Its a feed back system we are looking for. People need to be informed consistantly. They need to see other people being concerned. And they need to feel connected to the process.

The media is the means of connecting the people to one another and it has been coopted by the right. And they know the very thing they are trying to avoid.

[NMMNG]

13. I've been outraged for years

Fat lot of good it's done me.

That arsehole is still in office.

[mopaul]

14. the outrage is right over there by the WMD'S

oh, those are gone too.

[sweetheart]

15. Outrage fatigue

The lecherous filth of the GOP are so criminal and inept, that my
outrage pool is empty. I've not the energy to be drained by idiots
for their crimes... rather i've decided to be a progressive, and make
life better around me with lots of positive energy to take back the
civic community for the better.

There is no victory in outrage unless it spurs you to action. Rather
it can feel simply a futile battle of banging ones fists against the
thick stone walls of republican criminality, something from which
your fists can only get bloody and broken, to no avail.

[fooj]

16. IMHO, you can still be a progressive and feel outrage!

I applaud you on taking action. I'm all for positive vibes! I can't change the way I'm feeling, though. I am angry. I am afraid. I just can't believe that I'm the only one who feels this way.

Peace.

[BeFree]

23. You are my kind of woman, sweetheart

...with just the kind of mentality the world needs more of.

As for everyone else... don't you get the feeling they are just plain scared? Afraid, even, of their own shadows? For they know what they are doing is wrong, but they can't make themselves change?

It's as if, as written in this thread, they are drug addicts on a binge. Instead of outrage, we must take pity on these crazed, self deluded, and manipulated individuals, by showing them the true path of a united nation with liberty and justice for all.

[Vinca]

17. Outrage is turning into a way of life. nt

[radfringe]

18. it's out there

just not being reported by the lapdogs, plants, cheerleaders, choir and payola is bigger to just report what the bushies want reported...

it's the NO-BAD-NEWS (unless it smears Dems) and if there is bad news about the bushies -- it's NOT THEIR FAULT -- THEY WERE MISLED

if that doesn't work -- they just change the rules

[DemonFighterLives]

19. Doesn't it seem that the dumpy economy is partly to blame

Everybody is busy trying to pay heating bills, electricity, gasolene etc. Insurance and health care have gone through the roof.
I better slow down, I might start to froth and build up a real outrageous attitude. :donut:

The media is playing a large part in the whitewashing of all the bad. Conspiracy theorists are flummoxed because it is hard to believe anyone could be so evil and devoid of compassion.

[LynnTheDem]

21. Then they came for the children...you tell me WTF the outrage is!

WHAT THE F*CK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY???

SICK! SICK! SICK!

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0427-21.htm

[BiggJawn]

24. I gotcher outrage RIGHT here!

Sit down and talk with me for a few minutes. I guarran-dam-tee you'll think I'm ready to blow a gasket within 2 minutes.

People don't like to talk to me because i guess i push into their comfort zone or something.

"You can't talk to him! All he goes on about is Fascism, and World Empires, and Martial Law, and Politics...He don't even know who got kicked off the damn island last week. How fucked-up is THAT???"

[Stevepol]

25. Be sure to mention the voting machines. Until that problem

is solved, the outrage will continue unabated. There have to be voter-verified paper ballots and audits fairly conducted for all elections using electronic voting machines.