Do "We" (I pray that this is OK) know what we're fighting for?

[JanMichael]

Really...I think all expletives have been removed...

Dumb question, I'm positive, flames of "I'm involved damnit! You're an "Dillhole"!" are expected.

Now my query. It involves the meat and potatoes (Props to the dumb"Headed" people) of the "WHY"?

Sure I'm working hard to play tennis (with any luck next Saturday....I really just wanted to have some beers with him, yet he's apparently a tea-drinker only, no alcohol...) with the nice guy from Bangledesh that I know, from the corner "Circle K", but, other than that Black "girl" in HR, I really don't have any "Minority" friends, I only recently realized how "White" my world was...

I have a philosophy that demands Equality, that demands Egalitarianism, that wants Social Harmony, yet (Like every activist event that I attended...) I really don't have many non-WASPS (Or other econo-ethnic acquantences) in my circle of friends!

Which made me think that we might be a bunch of (understandably) guilty Liberals wondering what the "heck" went wrong with Society and why they're all so discombobulated?...

I guess that I'm trying to point out what should be obvious...I'm living in the perfect Republican World! I've got a good job, I've got a pension, I've got Healthcare when I need it, I've got a nice place to live, I've got...ME ME ME!

I harp constantly about Fair Trade, Women's Rights, Marriage (As in same-sex marriage) Freedom, National Healthcare (I've got bunches of it! Who want's some?!)Worker's Rights/Unions, Living Wages, Progressive Taxation (Or a Maximum Income...Why not? We've already got a Minimum Wage (Income), No?) yet the fact is that I live in WhiteManSuburbiana!

Am I an anomoly?

Why should I care, I'm OK, no?

Yes I'm drunk (Barely...The first try was an hour and a half ago...) now...Figuratively as well as the easy to do "Literally".

Is this a GD thread? I would say so...Why? Because I'm sitting here wondering what the "holy heck" "our" candidates are going to propose in a Macro sense outside of my happy existance? What will they do to make someone else's live better? Why? I'm SET! "BITE" (no really...BITE ME!) me!

What about everyone else?????

Who has a Macro Policy that takes in to account that some people get "Totally REAMED" in our "Happy Clappy" country????

Well?

PS~ I only post this because every activist meeting that I've attended is mostly white...Not that this is an inherantly a "bad" thing but..


WHAT'S UP?


BIG EDIT: Apparently "Hell" in the subject line is "too" scary here now....Now it's "Heck"...

Double edit...All expletives (I hope!) have be replaced.!:-)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Quick you drunken bum!

Change it to "I'm involved dagnabbit!"

feel free to cut and paste if you wish..if the thread lasts..I PROMISE I'll respond..if not...you'll probably pass out before a 5th attempt.

[JanMichael]

4. I CAN'T DO ANOTHER THREAD!!!!!!

:argh:

Oh my holy Zoraraster!

[Faygo Kid]

2. Don't ask me I don't give a damn

Next stop is Vietnam. Or maybe Syria. (Thanks - now I won't be able to get that song out of my head when I hit the sack).

[leftofthedial]

3. that's all just a bunch of bullshoot

I'm durned sick and tired of all the mothersqueakers who think they can clean up my flaking language.

Gosh darnit.

I don't have a large number of close non-Caucasian friends. The ones I do have seem to be pretty liberal. I have several Asian friends who are actively anti-neocon. It does seem though, that the most committed activists I know are all white (whatever "white" is anymore).

I used to know many hispanic activists, but not as many these days. That's more a comment on me than on the hispanic community.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. Actually you are working in a perfect Democratic world

If you have healthcare through your employer and a pension plan, it is in large part thanks to Democrats who made sure rank and file employees HAD the opportunities and benefit that Republicans seem to believe only MANAGEMENT deserves.