yup.
On a daily basis we are being blasted by false accusations from the right. They have a stranglehold on the media. I find myself in arguments with my conservative friends who try to blame the mortgage crisis on poor minorities...and yet when I tell them the cities hardest hit were Myrtle Beach and St. Petersburg Florida...they look at me in disbelief.
We're in the middle of the biggest financial calamity in 70 years, yet most of the public is upset over TARP...but not the conditions that led to the need for tarp.
The hacked Climategate emails, the fake Acorn video with overdubbed voices, the fake tea-bagger protests. We're being attacked and no one is fighting back. I just don't know what to do anymore. Our president is tepid, aloof and disconnected. Democrats are losing morale by the second and yet our leaders are somewhat confused by this.
If there was ever an era where liberals could attack republicans, this is it...and yet I feel like we're being muzzled in the media and muzzled by our leaders. No one can forcefully come out in support of re-instituting Glass Stegal, only Volcker has done so and the media has just treated him like some eccentric old man.
I feel like we had a moment to make serious changes, and we've hesitated.
The window for change is gone...we may be locked in a death spiral...with Larry fucking Kudlow spouting off about deregulation and Glenn Beck foaming on about the 4th reich if any democrat makes a claim for power.
I thought we had a fucking leader, someone who could speak for us and stand up for us.
But we don't and I'm pissed. No newspaper will stand up, no television station will air our arguments...we're being stuffed into the corner.