Nation's Liberals Suffering from Outrage Fatigue

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This is from The Onion, but it has a ring of truth to it. The Bush Administration is so outrageous, it's hard to keep up with it all. Lots of small-scale outrages tend to fly under the radar:

http://www.theonion.com/election2004/news_4027.php

WASHINGTON, DC — According to a study released Monday by the Hammond Political Research Group, many of the nation's liberals are suffering from a vastly diminished sense of outrage.

"With so many right-wing shams to choose from, it's simply too daunting for the average, left-leaning citizen to maintain a sense of anger," said Rachel Neas, the study's director. "By our estimation, roughly 70 percent of liberals are experiencing some degree of lethargy resulting from a glut of civil-liberties abuses, education funding cuts, and exorbitant military expenditures."

San Francisco's Arthur Flauman is one liberal who has chosen to take a hiatus from his seething rage over Bush Administration policies.

"Every day, my friends send me e-mails exposing Bush's corrupt environmental policies," said Flauman, a member of both the Green Party and the Sierra Club. "I used to spend close to an hour following all the links, and I'd be shocked and outraged by the irreversible damage being done to our land. At some point, though, I got annoyed with the demanding tone of the e-mails. The Clear Skies Initiative is bogus, but I'm not going to forward a six-page e-mail to all my friends—especially one written by a man who signs his name 'Leaf.' Now, if a message's subject line contains the word 'Bush,' it goes straight into the trash."

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[Skittles]

1. pity us Texas Dems

I am freaking exhausted

[dave29]

5. I second that

:hangover:

[Lindacooks]

2. I'm not exhausted

I just get more furious every day.

[Xipe Totec]

3. I Told Cassandra This Would Happen

But she didn't believe me! :nuke:

[WLKjr]

4. I have been furious for 4 years now

and I am growing tired. I just want it to be over soon. Then maybe we can get back to reality and not this * nightmare.

[bloom]

6. I was thinking that today after watching FSTV

There are SOOOOO many things to be outraged about that are not being dealt with by whomever should be dealing with them.

And it seems like it might be more effective to have a million people in Washington focused on ONE issue (each week/month?) instead of 100 issues all over the place. But that's how it is.

[quaoar]

7. You barely hear a word

about Bush's rape of the environment. The war and the economy suck all the oxygen out of the room.