There is an old Clint Eastwood movie that comes on from time to time, called the Eiger Sanction. It’s not a very good movie, but it had one great scene. At the end of this movie, this group is climbing a mountain in the Alps and several of the team have been killed or injured. The Clint character is resting with one of the European guys, trying to reassure him they’ll make it. The European guy looks over and says "I don’t think so, but I’ve enjoyed climbing with you.” That’s how I feel Daily Kos community. We tried but we lost. God bless those of you who keep trying. But face it, the Republicans HAVE been handed a mandate. I don't know why and I’m not sure this country can survive it. Maybe, but with any success? All I can say is “I don’t think so, but I’ve enjoyed climbing with you.”
I wish I could say I’m actually leaving, but I’m stuck here like most of you.
I don’t blame Democrats for yesterday, or Obama, or his admintration. Yeah, Obama should have cut the bipartisanship after about 3 months. The messaging could have been better, but I think that there would have been the same results.
I blame stupid Americans. I know that polls say that this group of stupidos is only (?) 25 -30 of the population and that most Americans agree with liberal policies, but lets face it, they’re the group that comes out and votes. Who cares if 60 percent of the population agrees with us, if they sit on their asses and are too lazy or uninterested to vote? Who even cares if more of “us” come out for Presidential elections, if 4 years later we're voted out again.
I know Kos thinks this is a show of frustration. He’s probably right. But how stupid are people? If someone sticks you with a knife, are you going to go back to him for help no matter what the circumstances are? In a sane world, no. But we’re not in a sane world anymore. We’re in a country where we actually have to take the rantings of low-normals like Sarah Palin, Michele Bachman, and Louis Gohmert seriously. (No Dem even ran against Gohmert. Unfucking believable!)
With the media and educational system we have now, I just don’t think there is anyway to cut through American stupid, and quite frankly, I’ve lost interest in trying. I guess we really have educated several generations to think they are going to get magically “rich” somehow (the lottery?), and that will mean they don’t have to care about how their society or planet functions.
I’m with Doug J over at Balloon Juice who said that he just hopes that this country holds on until this group of old whites kicks off and we are saved by a rising population of brown and black people. I’m sure when the numbers are run, you’re going to see that the predominant group of voters is old, white people. Why should they care about the future? They already have all the money & benefits they’re ever going to get. They’ll all die with full Social Security, pensions, and Medicare. It’s everyone else left behind that’s screwed. Theirs is the classic modern ideal: “I’ve got mine, fuck you!”
By the way, like many here at the Daily Kos community, I’m a white girl myself. But come on, this sad group of railing bigots and morons...The coming demographic change doesn’t concern me. As I told some one I work with, “who cares what color someone’s skin is? What matters is if they are a good person.”
So, I’m not doing a GBCW. I’ve been a lurker here and at other sites for many years. I’ll check in from time to time. I’ll continue to vote, throw a little cash to people I like (although I’m not sure what the point of that is. Every middle class person in America could donate $10, and we’ll still be out spent 10 to 1). But as for expending anymore energy and emo, I’m done.
I personally think Obama is toast. The only reason he may hold on is that group of mental defectives running for the Repug nomination. The economy may even pick up...hey, just in time for this Republican congress to take credit for it. His legacy will be Health Care Reform and Credit Card Reform. Obviously, the previous Republican Congress passed almost nothing, and that was with a Republican president! Nothing else will get done in Obama’s presidency unless they reform the Senate rules and the Dems get both majorities again.
These wingers seem determined to destroy this country. I don’t know if they’re delusional or just cynics. It really doesn’t matter. The results are the same. America’s going down. How far, I don’t know, but as Paul Krugman said, historians will look back on this period and it won’t look good.
Anyway, that’s my rant. I fell better even if some reading this don’t. And, oh yeah, you great wits out there can save the “goodbyes’, “who are you” and grammer corrections. I seen it all before. Save your time.