The system is beyond broken. And so are we.

[LibraLiz1973]

It's absolutely sickening to watch all that is going on in this country.

I'm so tired of voting for someone because the alternative would be worse.

What happened to hope?

What happened to change?

I'm NOT talking about just President Obama here.

I'm talking about the entire system, and the dramatic overhaul that is needed.

Our expectations are now so low, many of us have little to no fight left.

In a lot of ways, it is similar to being an abused spouse.

You know that the person is treating you badly, but you can't see a brighter horizon.

So, you make excuses.

"It isn't his/her fault."

"He/she didn't mean to do it."

"He/she doesn't have any options."

B U L L S H I T

Supposedly these people ran for these jobs to HELP, and to change things.

Why isn't that happening?

When will it get better?

WILL IT?

[lunatica]

1. If you look hard at OWS you'll see it's all about this

Things don't change overnight and people don't accept abuse forever. Finding your 'enough' line in the sand is for each person to do on their own. When enough people find that 'enough' line it's a revolution. We're literally living in a revolution. These things take time.

[Zorra]

4. +1

[LibraLiz1973]

7. Well said

I believe I have found my "enough" line.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Human Nature ,Unchecked power is the only thing that ruins Democracy..

1% has somebody in the 99% on their side and they need to be Ousted ,Boycotted and made to support what they assault ,People the most precious commodity on the planet.

[drokhole]

3. Rotten, corrupt, monstrous, and ruthless spring to mind...

"You are part of a society, and you are struggling to adjust yourself to it. But that society is the outcome of acquisitiveness. It is the outcome of envy, fear, greed, possessive pursuits, with occasion flashes of love. Surely, you have to create a new society."

"We are not bringing about a vital change, uprooting the old ways of thought, freeing the mind from traditions and habits.
...
We want to do patchwork reform, which only leads to problems of still further reform. We do not want to strip away all our false values and begin anew. But the building is crumbling, the walls are giving away, and fire is destroying it. We must leave the building and start on new ground, with different foundations, different values."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

"In order to change an existing paradigm, you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete."

- R. Buckminster Fuller

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. Against this peril we can never surrender

"There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain."

Book of G'Quan - Babylon 5

[AlinPA]

6. The Abramoff interview on TV and the 60 minutes a few days later show that

Congress does not work for the people anymore. It is a complete failure and it is impossible to do anything.

[LibraLiz1973]

8. Funny. It was the Abramoff interview that was the straw for me

I'm guessing you found it as repugnant as I did.

Where are the people with good character?!?!?!?!?!

It seems even people who go in with the best of intentions

become mesmerized by the crowd & are soon drinking the kool aid.

I think, for most, that the decision to run for any office

is a belief that you can effect change.

The reality ends up being far bleaker.

Where once the intentions were good, soon they are

beholden to lobbyists and donors.

As for the public interest....

Well, let's just say with each fancy dinner & large donation,

the public becomes a lot less interesting.

Power corrupts.

We vote for people to do a job.

They take an oath that they will.

But the reality is,

they get on to the other side of the debate

and pretty soon...

The promises become as empty as their consciences.

SO, there are no real changes. Just new names for failure.

[AlinPA]

9. America started to sink when Abu Ghraib was cheered by the right wing. We are

in a pit now and can't crawl out.

[Carolina]

10. America started to sink when

JFK was killed on November 22, 1963 -- the anniversary of which we are fast approaching.

The added death blows were Reaganomics, Theft 2000 and Iraq