[quote=pri_dk][quote=partypup][mishmash of hyperbole borrowed from various talk-radio hosts][/quote]
I know lots of people that are elated because their football team won in the playoffs (not many folks from around here, though.)
People like to pick a team, cheer for their side. It’s always fun to see your team win and the other team lose. It brings joy.
But politics is real, not some game that has no influence over our life, right? So there is genuine reason to be happy.
The political party that won an election on the other side of the country for one office (out of hundreds that influence the laws) is going to tip the scales and make everything better.
Because eventually the guy on our team who just won may be able to influence policy and lower taxes for corporations and high-income earners and eventually that may create more economic growth and eventually that may create more demand for my particular skills and eventually this might improve my income and then life will be full of joy.
That’s how it’s going to work, right?
I seem to remember hearing the exact same thing in 1994. And there has been nothing but joy since then.[/quote]
Dude: First, I don’t listen to talk radio because its for morons – so to suggest that I am borrowing any of my thoughts from these nitwits only speaks to how ill-informed you are. It is truly mind-numbing how partisan people on this board can be, as if what’s left of their frontal lobes has dissolved into jello. If anyone comes out against Obama, then they are automatically branded a right-wing talk show-loving Republican. Here’s a newsflash: I voted for Gore and Kerry, godda***it! Do you truly think that life is so black and white, absent of any shades of gray? If so, I wonder how you will manage to muddle through your remaining years on this earth.
Second, I don’t have a “team” in this game. Have you been listening to anything that I, Arraya and Zeit have been saying for the past 8 mos? BOTH of these so-called political teams are criminal and need to be stopped. Re-read what I wrote in my original post and stop writing on auto-pilot:
“Because by all accounts on the ground this appears to be the beginning of a groundswell of political revolution – one that will initially take out Obama and the Democrats, but will then be unleashed against the GOP.”
Think before you write.
Third, I’m not looking for the state of MA or Scott Brown or the dolts in the GOP to make my life better; I’m looking to myself and other voters – starting in MA – to simply wake up and take control over their own lives. The MA election was not only symbolic; it also put a roadblock in front of a party that was clearly not listening to the majority of the country. And that’s not a reason to be excited? You must be a terminal manic-depressive.
The first step towards *real change* – not the kind sported on a friggin’ bumper sticker – is rejecting the actions of ANY party that is railroading you, whether it is the party of the left or the right. And when the GOP takes control of Congress this year and fails miserably, the pendulum will swing again – but this time I predict it will swing in a different direction entirely and in favor of the fastest-growing voter bloc in the country: independents. I have been saying this from day one. The time compression between pendulum swings has gotten so short now that both Dems and Repugs are about to find themselves personas non grata by all Americans. All it will take is one independent-minded senator or rep who has always remained on the fringes of their party to STAND UP and proclaim their candidacy on a third ticket.
What’s happening now is not “fun”, and the fact that you would equate the groundwell of revolution all around us to a football game suggests that you are not grasping the import of what is unfolding. The stakes have never been higher for each and every one of us, and I have only been waiting for the tipping point to arrive when people finally began to wake up, take control and realize that both parties need to be put out of their misery. Last night may have seemed like a victory to the GOP, and being as clueless as they are I’m sure they have mis-read it that way, just as they have mis-read the sentiment behind the Tea Party and 9/12 movements. But it wasn’t a victory for them, and 2012 will be the watershed. Almost no one had even heard of Obama 2 years before the election. A candidate who is truly right for the times and speaks to the people can come out of nowhere even if he/she lacks $1 billion in campaign funding.
You need to climb out of your ditch of cynicism and realize that we are now living in extraordinary, dangerous and exciting times where anything is possible.
