I am 69 year old progressive and I read this blog because it often gives me the real news and a slant on it that I can’t get from the corporate-owned media. I really would like to send this note as a response to continual fundraising emails I receive, but they don’t have a return link, so this is where I am posting my opinion.
To tell you the truth, I often avoid all news because it is just too damned slanted and too damn full of bullshit. Even here there is a lot of incendiary crap and hand wringing that is totally unnecessary. But I am a smart guy and I know how to filter out the shit so I don’t mind it all that much. But when the chips are down, I depend on this blog to give me the straight poop and not point me toward the corporate middle.
Of course that is not how it went down at election time. Nope, instead, whoever runs this rag jumped on the Dem corporate bandwagon thinking Dems and “any port in a storm” and of course by the time the shit storm was over, as a result we were saddled with a shit storm shaded orange. There was, of course, a progressive choice, but this blog avoided it, going for what they thought was the safe choice instead. And now they want money from me. I live on Social Security, which almost covers my rent, and little else. Oh, don’t forget the $400 a month retirement pay for 45 years of busting my ass; I scramble for the rest. This does not leave me much. I get Dem and KOS emails and phone calls for donations, and crap man, I just can’t spare it. If I knew for sure that they really had my back, I would panhandle it or collect scrap or something, but I just no longer have the trust.
I hope I don’t get banned or something for sharing my honest opinion, but I know that is a possibility; few really want to hear trust these days. I would love to help but how is that gonna happen?
