Posted on 12/21/2005 11:39:24 PM PST by smoothsailing
Tough times for Prozac Democrats
By Gary J. Andres
Published December 22, 2005
While visiting a Starbucks in suburban Washington last week, I picked up a copy of a small, liberal weekly newspaper called the Falls Church News Press. Somewhere between its regularly featured reprints of New York Times columnists Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman, its own editorial titled "More Worry Than Hope" argued Americans are "stressed out" this holiday season. The war in Iraq, Katrina and gas prices all contribute to malaise and victimhood.
Even the haven of bankruptcy, it writes, is less of an option for "people who feel helpless against their own binge spending, flooded with lines of credit, like lines of a powdery drug, postponing reality with an empty fantasy that the buying can continue without consequence." It appears "Saturday Night Live's" ever gloomy Debbie Downer now has a soulmate.
I've seen this paper before, and my first reaction was to write it off as just another left-wing, Bush-hating crank. After all, the economy's humming along, the elections in Iraq went well, gas prices are coming down -- life in America is far from perfect, but isn't there some reason for some optimism?
But then it hit me. Where does this editorial writer get his hope? The same place most liberals do -- from a powerful, activist, benevolent government. The bigger, the better. Because, as government grows, so does its capacity to serve and save humanity, at least in the liberal mind. And for the past five years, friends of big-government activism have not controlled the levers of power in Washington -- a major stress factor.
If I were a liberal who derived my primary hope from government, I'd be ready for some Prozac, too. And herein may lie some clues...
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
I guess that must be Bush's fault too
It's all those tax cuts. People just can't control how they spend their extra money. Better hope there aren't any more or people might have to take control of their own finances. What a world we live in.
BWAH HA HA HA HA HA HAH! Losers!
Sucks to be them.
These are the people of DU, those who cannot survive without their delusional 'other realities'
The name of Prozac becomes Rovac
No problem here. Just stop the paper.
Mommy state, please help me feel better.
"And for the past five years, friends of big-government activism have not controlled the levers of power in Washington -- a major stress factor."
What fantasy land does this guy live in? Big spending liberal Bush (free drugs anyone) has made Clinton look like a spending amateur.
Instead of shrinking the government, he and his RINO buddies in Congress are working overtime to see how big they can grow the bureaucracy.
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