Where is the Outrage?

[JackD76]

Looking back on the past four years, I wonder why nothing has changed. I wonder why things get from bad to worse and yet, none of it matters. Life under the Bush administration has been one disaster to another. It seems like we are witnessing a life time of corruption, of death, of destruction, of lying, cheating, and stealing all at once. Where is the outrage? Sure, people go onto blogs, and chatrooms, and forums and talk about how angry they are. They talk about how they can't take it anymore, how our great nation is slipping away right before our eyes. We talk about an America that we once knew. An America that was the envy of the world, a shining beacon of hope, where we were once free. We look on as elections are stolen, as terrorist kill us. We look on as our president leads us into unnecessary war, as our president destroys our environment, cripples our economy, and kills our civil rights. Americans see this, everyday, and yet America does nothing. The men and women who are raping our great land, remain in power. At any other point in history, we would not have tolerated this. But today, four years after the madness began, we have done nothing. I ask you, where is the outrage?

[shadowknows69]

1. brainwashing on a massive scale? n/t

[rzemanfl]

2. Eating a big hole in my stomach. n/t

[checks-n-balances]

3. The outrage is there, but the press isn't covering it

And if more people knew this was going on, THEY would be outraged, too.

[dennis4868]

27. if more people knew.....

there would be a civil war in this country to take back our democracy and government!

[KarenS]

4. I agree & keep waiting for it to start,,,,,

surely something will wake up the rest of America.

[applegrove]

5. You just get exhausted and you start to do things to preserve your

outrage. You start doing things to reconnect with your community and you preserve your strength to fight more efficiently. If bankruptcy is so bad (as bills go) it can easily be replaced at some point in time. Right now we need to focus on SS.
IMHO

[eternalburn]

6. It might only seem like there is no outrage because.....

...mainstream media has chosen to ignore it.

In Chicago protesters (beginning of Iraq invasion) walked onto Lake Shore Drive and basically shut it down. That was in the local news for less than 48 hours. Probably much less in national news.

Just a few weeks ago African American laborers walked onto the Dan Ryan expressway (might be wrong about the road name) and shut down traffic for a few hours one morning. They were protesting the lack of contracts for black owned labor companies. That incident was barely mentioned in the news. I highly doubt it made national coverage.

[The Doctor.]

7. It's too horrific for average Americans to grasp...

So it doesn't register even when they are shown the solid truth.

Humans have an uncanny knack of completely ignoring that which is large and uncomfortable and believing in utter nonsense if it makes them feel good.

Stick around and you'll see how this has happened to America.

Welcome to DU.

:hi:

[Mnemosyne]

8. I keep hearing ...

"There's nothing I can do about it."

And my stomach is getting a hole also, along with the pain in my ass. I can't watch ANY MSM at all anymore or I start screaming at the TV.

What in God's name is going to have to happen to wake this country up? A nuke?

And welcome to DU, hope you find some solace and a bit of sanity here at least.

[Stop_the_War]

9. They remain in power because they stole the election...

[lonestarnot]

10. I think it is beginning to set in...Give it another ss issue and another

BK and a very likely draft...then we'll see.

[JackD76]

11. So you think there is going to be a draft?

Maybe, if we attack more countires or if recruiting continues to be low. That would wake up americans but that is why i don't think they will do it. Keep us detached from the war and we don't care about it.

[fresnobill314]

12. We need to pick our fights, or organize better.

There's plenty of outrage about what Dubya is trying to do with Social Security. The problem is that our government is corrupt. The true bi-partisan effort in Washing D.C. is corruption.

The people of France just had a one day strike. How's that for outrage? Maybe they aren't as stupid as we were lead to believe.

Students are protesting military recruiters on campus. How's that for outrage?

I saw a C-SPAN broadcast hosted by Travis Smiley. There was plenty of black outrage there.

C-SPAN also broadcast the protest march in front of Madison Square Garden before the Repug Convention. There was a shit-load of outrage there.

I believe we are rapidly approaching a "critical mass" of personal outrage. When that happens, the shit is really going to hit the fan.

[JackD76]

14. Organization

That probably is a problem. It seems like everyone and all of the info and resources are all over the place.

[gizmo1979]

13. This has been pissing me off

for a while.we all sit here and rant and rave and shout,but when it comes time to do something tangable alot of people are no where to be found.After saying that,what is there to do?It seems the petitions and e-mails get us no where.The only way to get the attn we need is either something that affects peoples wallets,or protests on a massive scale getting people together for either is near impossible.We need someone with ideas big ideas.Anyone up for the task?

[JackD76]

15. An Alliance?

Someone should create an organization that bands the hundreds of groups together.

[gizmo1979]

22. excellent idea!

[yeababy]

17. I say we buy up all of the toilet paper n/t

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[onecitizen]

18. And what do YOU

suggest we do?

Really? What do you want us to do that we haven't done? People here at DU have done much more than the average Joe or Jane out there. Joe and Jane just have not yet been affected in a bad way by the antics of the Regressives. Their time is coming.

[JackD76]

20. Riot?

[Deja Q]

19. Many repubs voted for * despite not liking his policies and outcomes of.

They did not like Kerry.

I doubt they'd like any Dem.

Why is it we're so closed minded we have to be so polarized? Especially when it's the politicians who are effectively telling us to be polarized, by their own actions.

The problem isn't as much one person but a group of people, who are looking out for their own better interests.

Indeed, why else did many people who say they're a Democrat not vote for Patty Wetterling? "Well, she has no experience" is what'd they'd say.

So, what's worse? No experience? Or a career politician?

This post is for everybody, even our freeper lurkers. Please don't delete any post unless it gets personal.

[earth mom]

21. Oh, I'm outraged all right...

and often I feel that I'm just about the only person I know who is! I'm pissed, afraid, worried, disgusted and so panicked at times that I just want to get the hell out of dodge immediately!

I really think that most people don't and won't react or do anything about what's happening until it affects them Personally!

I've said it before; things won't change until we see:

A Draft,

WWIII

Depression #2 along with Massive Job Losses

[BigBearJohn]

23. Well, one thing we can do is NOT BUY IMPORTS. PERIOD.

[fresnobill314]

25. Not buy imports?

Name one product besides firearms that is still manufactured in the U.S.A. Everything has been outsourced. Who the hell do we boycott?

[BigBearJohn]

32. I have purchased things made in the U.S.

[Rapcw]

33. Anti-Freeze n/t

[Generator]

24. Many answers

A) Massive denial enabled by some of the best propaganda money can buy.

B) 9/11-people realized that yes, they as an AMERICAN could die on their own soil. That's an outrage. So-everybody that could ever possibly be guilty must be killed or stopped. Torture? Ah..they deserve it.

C) They are too TIRED. Working and working.

D) No draft. WE need a draft. That would change the whole ball game. What was the sixties? IT was all about the draft and the outrage of the draft. It wasn't about Johnny gung Ho Virginian marching off to war to kill terrorists that bombed his own people.

E) Things aren't that bad. For all the bitching that goes on around here. It's not 1930. We don't even have a clue as to real suffering for the most part (I know there are exceptions mostly due to health problems) But people eat. They have diversions. They have alchohol. They have things to do. They aren't standing in soup lines.

F) Things get that bad then-you either have a new deal or you have Hitler.

G) If the Bush manaics have their way it will be that bad.

Then you will see suicide, home grown terrorism, riots and the rest.

A third world prison state is what they do best. I'm sure the movie has already been made. But hopefully I'll be dead by then.

I agree though-I'm been outraged ever since I figured out the answers to 9/11 don't make sense. It causes some sleepless nights thinking your goverment considers you collateral damage and lies about it daily.

[ultraist]

26. And we keep supporting our Dem leaders who do NOT fight for us!

[LoganW]

28. It's because people can still watch American Idol

and survivor.

[newyawker99]

29. Hi LoganW!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[truth2power]

30. An acquaintance was so angry the other day, she was hyperventilating.

I think a major reason for what looks like lack of outrage is that there is no one, a leader if you will, to FOCUS the anger and outrage. It's out there, but people just feel helpless.

The logical consequence is, of course, that at the point that someone does manage to give all this outrage some focus, the shit storm is going to be un-frigging-believeable!!!!

[scarletlib]

31. I think a lot of people are angry but their voices are not being

heard in our crapass mass media. Whenever I engage individuals one on one I find that there is a lot of disagreement with what is going on.
A few weeks ago I was in the Walmart parking lot in West Palm Beach, FL (Forgive me I had an emergency and had to use WalMart as the nearest store) As I was passing by I heard to people talking about the war in Iraq. I only caught a snippet but they were not happy about what was going on. These were two people who didn't look like they were the richest folk in the world.

I think now that time has passed from 9-11 that more and more people are thinking and are angry. But their voices are not yet being heard by all of us.