Reply #19: It IS depressing, and it's not just you. I wonder how bad it has to get [View All]

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before anyone actually addresses the issues facing the country -- what exactly has to happen? Do all the goddam TVs have to be shut off for a year before the consumer trance is broken and politicians have the guts to talk about things that matter? What's the breaking point -- when no one can afford to gas up to go to work? When there is no paid work? When bands of homeless strip McMansions of their copper wiring? When? What will it take?

The Democrats ought to be willing to lose elections for 20 years and say out loud what is wrong with this country without any triangulation, calculation. They are acting like small, timid people, like toadies toadying. It isn't just depressing, it's disgusting.

And I'm depressed, too.