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In reply to the discussion: Ever get the feeling that virtually nobody with power gives a crap about your life? [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)144. I can't tell you how many times
I have had or overheard that conversation in public places over the past year. People are getting it. They don't buy the lies about the good party and the bad party anymore. They know we are being sold out by both, and they are ANGRY.
And when you start to talk back and they realize that you see it, too, there is this tremendous sense of kinship and shared outrage and determination that something needs to be done.
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Ever get the feeling that virtually nobody with power gives a crap about your life? [View all]
MannyGoldstein
Feb 2013
OP
I am a numbered ballot. Any and EVERY politician will tell me what he or she thinks I want to hear.
cherokeeprogressive
Feb 2013
#1
Psychologist never said that Right Wing Authoritarians were "crazy", however...
Larry Ogg
Feb 2013
#98
No we are only crazy if we think that the oligarchs dont have control in both parties.
rhett o rick
Feb 2013
#131
The real irony here, to me, is that the dysfunction at the Federal level is...
Poll_Blind
Feb 2013
#4
I suspect that politics has always attracted an overabundance of sociopaths
MannyGoldstein
Feb 2013
#6
have not believed that people in power cared about *me* for a long time. not even local
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#13
Pay the bills? No. The money we receive for our work is illusory and mostly given right back
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#30
When you stand up and demand positive Change, suddenly they do. Very much so.
Fire Walk With Me
Feb 2013
#21
The horror to me was the recognition that they ALL have the same uniforms now...
Moostache
Feb 2013
#79
Neglect seems like an improvement. I tend to think they are actively trying to milk us.
TheKentuckian
Feb 2013
#23
Absolutely true. But some just want to believe the parties are exactly the same. They are not.
Jennicut
Feb 2013
#71
Thank you! There are differences. I'll remain realistic, but refuse to be so pessimistic and cynical
mountain grammy
Feb 2013
#85
Sometimes they're different in what they say but the outcomes....not so much.
snappyturtle
Feb 2013
#90
I'm ok, but we've been really lucky to have been healthy with decent union jobs.
mountain grammy
Feb 2013
#103
I planned to post the same, just on general grouchy principle, but you beat me to it!
struggle4progress
Mar 2013
#138
When Paul Krugman lunches at the White House as often as Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein
MannyGoldstein
Feb 2013
#47
No but I can see why people who don't like either party rationalize it in that way.
great white snark
Feb 2013
#66
Every day more and more George Carlin was right: it's a big club and we're not in it.
Initech
Feb 2013
#74
"I tell people to hell with charity, you only get what you're stong enough to get."
HomeboyHombre
Feb 2013
#76
Conservatives consider us all to to have only one function. Consume....
Spitfire of ATJ
Feb 2013
#80
Has anyone thought of a national tax revolt. Refusal Refusal of the middle class to give up one dime
ancianita
Feb 2013
#120
I think this is one of your best posts! Couldn't agree more nor could I be more envious.
snappyturtle
Feb 2013
#86
Yes, it does but it is true. My grandfathers both lived well into their 90's also.
snappyturtle
Feb 2013
#91
We are a stock entity that gets the 'pump and dump' routine every election cycle.
ancianita
Feb 2013
#110
apathy is only rivaled by ignorance (often the willful kind) in this country
stupidicus
Feb 2013
#119
Most of them are millionaires, so they cannot relate to the people they claim
sabrina 1
Feb 2013
#128
I don't have a large enough ego to think anyone would or should give a crap about my life.
RB TexLa
Feb 2013
#129
It is not your ego that elected them to Office, it is your vote and it is their job to care
1-Old-Man
Mar 2013
#148
actually, I think its a small but vocal minority with limited power that believes that
graham4anything
Mar 2013
#151