Reply #22: I lost my optimism almost 30 years ago [View All]

[markus]

when Henry Kissinger got the Nobel Peace Prize.

That was a large part of Dean's appeal for older (well, let's say older than 30) voters. There was a certain RFK fire in the belly about him, that Wellstone had in spades, that we lost with Paul.

I am very pessimistic now because our own side (and I fault both the left and the centrists on this) has allowed the right-wing to dominate the play field.

The end result is we have a news media that accepts the right-of-center as the center of American politics, 20 million die-hard AM radio listeners who are so intellectually corrupted I'm not sure they should be allowed to continue as citizens without some sort of de-Nazification, corporations in firm control of our government at the expense of workers and consumers.

And now we have a lot of millanerian whackoes running our nation and the world, and a bloddy war they have started for reason that still haven't been revealed.

Things pretty much suck all over.