There are probably pockets of sites online where liberals are not coping well.
Here's an example:
http://unfacts.org/cgi-bin/politicsandrants.pl?read=8055 I've been around.
Just not feeling much like I had anything to say.
Now I may have to REALLY keep my head down, unless the Justice Department beats my door down and has me hung along with every one else that doesn't convert to Xtianity.
I'm working too hard , for too little to entertain thoughts of moving out of the country, but this is just sickening.
I don't know, maybe Canada, maybe New York...someplace foreign...
But I'm too old, tired and poor to go.
It was right for Kerry to give it up. There wasn't a chance....there won't be a chance for many generations.
America (at least the one I dream of) is toast.
The presidency isn't the only thing to look at here. Look at the ballot initiatives, and the Congressional races. If you think the Evangelical Mullahs don't own this country now, you're dreaming.
This ain't gonna change for a long, long time.
As desperately as I was hoping for a Kerry miracle I think he's doing the right thing by not dragging it out. Even more disconcerting is the landslide victory for banning gay marriage. I think that's a barometer of how much control the religious right has over the country. Oh well it's only my conscience that makes this bad for me. Upper middle class white collar guys who've sold out to corporate america will continue to do well personally under Bush. Thanks goodness I'm not poor or a minority or a woman or gay or drafting age. Sure I'll have to stare at the 10 commandments in state buildings. Sure portions of my tax money are going to go to religious organizations. Sure the separation of church and state is going to continue to erode. Sure science and education are going to continue to decline in this country. Sure there is going to be more war. At least I'll get favorable tax shelters for my short term capital gains.
We live in the tension between two states – The “dark” of greed and religiosity and fear to the exclusion of reason and compassion, and the other side – trying to find a balanced way to meet the needs of our people, necessarily forsaking selfish gain and forsaking limiting-but-comforting beliefs.
Someone said recently that Bush wants so desperately to be in the “Lamb’s book of life.” Kerry campaigned on helping the middle class in the country, and protecting rights. One view is selfish, one view is altruistic. These two ideologies, head to head, create tension. But it’s gonna be okay. We’ll come through the dark ages, we always have. And we will. That's my take.
You're both missing the point. This race was (as future races will be ) won in the pulpits. Illegally, I might add, since tax-exemption should require non-partisanship. However, this race solidifies (and may CODIFY)the religious right's stranglehold on thought and debate in this country.
What I mean to say is that the churches broke the intent of the law, and don't have any cause to worry about it, because they will BE the law.
We're ******.
Paranoia in this day and age is a necessity.
How do we know that you are just couching your terms in what appears like logic to you, while all the time being some Xtian, bible thumping, backlash to the 14th century?
You believe in slavery, that much is obvious from your abortion stance.
Propagandizing and playing on the fears of the religious from the pulpit is what won this election.
It was divide and conquer, and we will pay for this in lost liberties, rising deficits , lost respect in the world (except through fear, intimidation, and economic extortion), a loss to progressivism, and a return to the inquisition and the crusades.
THAT is the large picture, and if we take our eyes off of THAT ball...well...
Screw it, it ain't my country anymore, it's yours.
I'm tired and pissed off...I give up.