I'm really worried.

[undergroundpanther]

Ok I gotta say a few things.

First of all I really appreciate DU. I myself am a bit more left than left,but for the most part I agree alot with folks here.Because you guys are cool with freedom.

But there is a problem with this.. to have freedom one must draw limitsor boundaries personally in your life around what kinds of behavior are tolerable in a relationship with someone else. This is a kind of self defense or integrity self defense,it ensures your own freedom is not misused by someone else misusing thier freedom to take away yours when you aren't out to control them or contain them for no sane reason.

I am kinda scared because of the crazy politics.
What I mean by this is I truly think Bush and co.are really sick,and they only look 'normal' they are not willing or able to see anything beyond what they want to see,facts don't matter to them,reality is an illusion,suffering is just an inconveience..torture is just hazing..

Sometimes you really do have to draw limits on others even when the person having limits put on them cry they are the victim and claim you are taking away thier rights.But is torturing somebody a right or an inhuman atrocity no person should get away with doing? In reality does anyone have a right to abuse,use up, lie to or bettray other people because they can get away with it?

Isn't the reason bullies, trolls,abusers and bush and co.get away with what they do that ruins lives is because we "let them" get away with it?Why because we feel like we can't fight them,can't debate,that there is no one to help? Doesen't that sound like a torture or abused person's thinking,when they are tortured they are violated and there is no appeal to a higher source no freinds who will make it stop,so they just become helpless and some identify with abusers and project them as good people,others blame themselves others become despondant. It's because the abuser has all the control over them and there is no other appeal for cessation of the suffering except for pleasing the whim of the torturer.It's the ugly heart of the victim perp relationship in an abusive parental model Bush is claiming he wants to be FOR US.. We silenced our voice and neglected the safety boundaries for politics outlined in the bill of rights or consitution on what power like churches state military or corporations can do with 'freedoms' we give to them with our votes,labor,obedience,trust or our children's /spouses lives. And now we feel helpless. Why?

Hasen't our integrity been violated? And we believe can do nothing about it? Ids that why we pay our taxes? Or tolerate cameras at stoplights,or"free speech zones".

The American public acts like it's been abused by something,something faceless,massive, palpable and invisible,it's stuck in an existensial helplessness.
We say we hate the abuses at Abu Gharib the Catholic pedophile scandal and all the other atrocities yet we think we are helpless to stop it too.Because we believe we are beholden to "masters" at work at home,everywhere we got bills to pay, papers to fill out, tests to take.Yeah we protest get arrested and all but still power in it's most opressive and amophous way acts like an abusive 'father in our daily lives. It has a million hands a billion demands and so many faces and fall guys it is faceless.We have become our own worst parent by proxy.Because we do not limit,check or watch power's 'freedoms'..Bush as a "father" is dismissing the cries of the hurting enraged children calling the heavy hand of the father unjustly to "disapline" in it's capricious reactions and ignoring of reality that we are a people not to be abused..


I am afraid that people because they want so much to restore thier own integrity and innocence about life,the sense that reality is ok or safe..It seems politics and work are among the many struggles of existance has violated humanity,jaded us,hurt us, broken us, and made us somehow exienstensially helpless when dealing with organized corrption and brute or subtle abuses of power.

Bush is not monolithic but the system of beliefs and social games that holds him in place is, monolithic because so many people participate in it.This system is invisdiible but it is like air,everywhere it touches everything with it's corruption and it's demands to buy,obey listen,pay attention,believe,do,say,ect.. And I fear Bush is but a symptom of the deeper entrenched perception problem that resides in us and how we relate to reality and the brutalities reality dishes out through people,circumstance,or 'fate'.Indignities brutalities and injustices we all face and cope with in varying degrees everyday.
Sometimes I just want to give up.Because I cannot pretend things are OK ,that god will bail us out,or that I can create my own reality or just love it all better when my experinces life shows me none of these things are really all that true. That in the face of abuse I have no one to turn to when bullies can be allowed to hurt me by bystanders who seem to be in denial or stuck in thier own existensial helplessness,or projections they want to see who let th bullies get away with it.

Than I feel even more powerless.
I find myself hoping for an earthquake to swallow up DC.
So that the abusers will stop.There is no appeals to higher authority when we bystand whilke horrors unfold because we feel so helpless under the gun.I can't do it by myself.

What do we do to break this spell?

[The Straight Story]

1. What do we do to break this spell?

A bottle of tequila :)

"A colt 45 and two zig zags, baby that's all we need..." - AfroMan (That Crazy Rap song)

[jimshoes]

2. Best way is to vote these people out.

Get active, get people that don't normally vote to vote. Talk to as many people as will listen to you. Help get them registered if they are not. It is the best way to start. If there is hanky panky with voting machines that cannot be recounted the best way to insure our victory is with landslide numbers of voters for Kerry. Think positively.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. It would go even faster if we had some major election reform

[sweetheart]

4. lets kick him out in november

Like you say, zero tolerance for bullying is "just say no." and we
do indeed have that choice.

You have the choice to turn the television off and to surround
yourself with positive vibes, like a good orwell book.

To break the spell deeper, accept totally your deepest fear of being
trapped, not free and oppressed... not in the future, or
intellectually, but experience it right now. Feel the fear totally
and accept the inevitability of death. Our bodies are all afraid of
dying, and once we accept this primal fear, there is no spell.

Life is such a prescious gift. All the more important that you
should immerse yourself in being fully alive right now. Their spell
is based in the future, in the past, on the television and somewhere
outside, yet in your own heart, they are powerless ghosts.