Reply #7: Jan Michael, that's all we ever wanted! I don't know how old you are, but [View All]

[KoKo]

hubby and I have been watching the "downfall of America" for awhile now watching Corporate Mega Merger, Downsizing, Offshoring, Greed and "Swin with the Sharks or be Eaten Alive," the total devastation of our once fine Public School system, the declining services and humanity of our Health Care system the discloation of families for jobs (brothers and sisters split up all over because one needs to make a living whatever), the isolation of the suburbs where people bother little with each other unless one's kids are the same age and that's about all that one has in common, the Religious Right preaching hatred and divisivness.

It's coming to a head, though. Having observed this boil waiting to fester..it's coming to a conclusion. So we fight, and hang in there giving support in what way we can...the internet, or activism, or we find another country to move to.

Not much else we can do. Just make sure that when when the boil erupts we have the medicine to heal it. (Sorry for the gross analogy, but I'm typing this out fast, and it came to mind, as trite as it is...)

Others feel like you and I and many DU'ers here and on the other progressive sites where we try to tell folks "The Sky is Falling" but they think we're just "Chicken Little," but many others are waking up, but don't have that voice yet, don't know where to go to speak their new voice. And, the media wants to make sure that we don't know that there are folks like us out there who see it all for what it is.

We want the country we thought we had back! We want it back, but don't yet know quite how to do it.