http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8214524PCIntern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Apr-25-10 01:57 PM
Original message
I have concluded that this country is in a death spiral...
Edited on Sun Apr-25-10 02:01 PM by PCIntern
and has been for a very long time.
Yes I know it's cynical and negative but my God, look around. Everything to which we once pledged our allegiance in the schools of our youth is gone or disappearing fast: Love of knowledge including science and fact supplanted in many casses by Creationism and Junk Science and Power of Deity; appreciation for literature,culture, and music of the past - although one didn't at that now far-distant time have to be a 'fan' of these things, they were appreciated simply for being, even by most who shunned them, there was grudging approval and some respect - now, even among 'cognoscenti', there is little or none; mainstream-accepted literally violent disapproval of laws and the Constitution, of legitimately elected representatives and their constituencies - the key here is that there are interview shows which calmly discuss the potential for assassinations of public figures, rather than the outrage which this should engender; levels of anger unseen in my lifetime towards individuals who do not toe the line 100%; loss of manufacturing and productivity, since we have become a colony, exporting raw materials and importing finished goods, with concimitant record unemployment with little hope of salvation in this regard; grotesque religious and racial intolerance; and much much more.
If the RW has a resurgence, we are doomed.
It never ceases to amaze me how these rants against white, Christian, non-liberals always end with anguished pleas for racial and religious tolerance.
graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Apr-25-10 02:05 PM
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5. I blame the media
Edited on Sun Apr-25-10 02:07 PM by graywarrior
For ALL of it. They are responsible for shining the light on the ****-fest of Teabaggers, racists, bigots, religeous fanatics, Sarah Palin, Babs Bachman, and every other slimey piece of shit GOP that dares open their mouths releasing shitstink opinions.
I despise the corporate media with a passion of a trillion burning suns.
WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Apr-25-10 02:07 PM
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7. Coup d'etat 2000: When the SCOTUS proved itself CORRUPT, that was it. THE END OF AMERICA.
Initech (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Apr-25-10 02:16 PM
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11. We're doomed regardless. Look at Texas where they're trying to rewrite history.
Apparently Texas refuses to recognize itself as a province of Mexico or something.
Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Apr-25-10 02:17 PM
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12. I know what you mean, PC. Sometimes I find myself looking
at babies and small children and feeling sorry for them. What on earth will this country be like in 20 years?
Democrats?
Allowing babies to be born?
Heresy!
PCIntern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Apr-25-10 02:20 PM
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14. Toffler was Correct!
...and we Progressives made fun of him at the time as anti-intellectual. We misunderestimated the stupidity of the People-at-largeand the collapse of the media into utter banality and lies.
Well, thank goodness we have you 30% to tell the other 70% of us how to live.
Personally I find all this pessimism a direct affront to our beloved Leader. Obama said he was the only one who could save America, and indeed the world. He would end the wars, put a halt to political corruption, balance the budget, heal the sick and reverse global warming.
By saying America is doomed they are saying Obama cannot deliver. That makes Obama a liar and to call him a liar is racist, seditious treason.
America has no place for those who lack faith.
