Originally Posted by babylonDon

If you're that indifferent, why comment at all?





Oh, yeah. So you can beat that drum again.

It that had anything to do with the subject of the thread, I wouldn't disagree. But it doesn't.

Under the Bush administration, the systematic abuse of power, continues to marginalize and vilify huge numbers of the American populace. Including me. Including you.

Part of the equation, includes a number of congressional Dems, who are either too enamored or intimidated by the historically unmatched power and control they've amassed. Another part is citizens who become discouraged or angry enough to turn their backs on the whole process, because of that. That's every bit as much as much a success to their goals, as any Dem who doesn't oppose them vocally enough.

I identify myself as an American first, and a Democrat way after that. I was raised in an environment that fostered democratic ideals. I haven't lost those ideals, even after becoming cynical about the process.

The air, water, and food is unsafe. The education system is set up to insure that the (evergrowing) poor remain ignorant, and pregnant, without any reasonable hope of medical care or meaningful employment. And they've got media corps, working in conjunction with them, whose job it is to paint those people as lazy and parasitic.

The truth has become elastic, even to those who spend all their time looking for answers to these problems.

If something isn't done about these problems, and soon, the U.S. will have entirely been destroyed as a true democracy. They may have their share of problems, but the Dems currently have the largest army, fighting for the things I believe in. And even at their worst, they don't come within miles of the totalitarianism of the current administration.

It's my feeling that the failure to wrest power from these people, is the same thing as agreeing with them.