Give me hope for this country.

6 Responses to Give me hope for this country.

1. Ralph says:

   7/21/2008 at 2:51 pm

   Sorry Jim, but I’m sick and tired of hearing about frickin’ “hope.” Blah, blah, blah, hope blah blah. Blah blah blah faith blah blah. Blah blah blah change blah blah.

   What good does “hope” do you anyway? Can’t eat it, can’t burn it for heat, can’t take it to the bank.

   The corporate lobbyists and corrupt fatcats milking us all dry don’t have “hope.” They don’t need it. They’ve got power and a plan, and that’s good enough for them. They’re not “hoping” for change, they’re clearly identified what they want to the people who can give it to them, and they’re bringing carefully applied leverage to get it.

   No, it’s us little people who’s s’posed to have hope. It makes us more amusing as we dance for the man. Listen to them singing as they toil. They’re happy. They have hope. They have faith. They believe.

   Fat lot of good it does us. Here’s a multiple choice question for you.

   Complete the following sentence: “Gosh,” said the senator, “we’d really better take public opinion seriously with regard to this legislation; the people are really___.”

   a. hopeful
   b. faithful
   c. pissed off
   d. inspired

   If you answered anything but c., you’ve been drinking the damn Obama Koolaid. Legal immunity for the telecoms and “hope” for us little folks. Golly gosh, Mister Obama, thanks for saving me from my apathy by giving me hope!

   Legal immunity for the telecom criminals and “hope” for us little folks? Pardon me while I drink rancid milk and puke to get a better taste in my mouth.

   The choice between hope and apathy is a bogus dichotomy. How about anger?

   I’m not saying violence, I’m not saying destruction, but how about good ol’ fashioned outrage?

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2. Fruktata says:

   7/21/2008 at 3:23 pm

   Oh, but could I do outrage without missing the ball game on ESPN4?

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3. Darebrit says:

   7/21/2008 at 9:09 pm

   I don’t know where to start or how to respond. I am one of those fools who have believed that I could change the world if I just kept pointing out the obvious. The problem is, In this time of instant communication, no-one is listening. We are all standing around waiting to give our opinion or criticizing each other for not paying attention. The corporate controlled media fashions our thinking from cradle to grave. Sports of every kind have become our family opiate. Disney teaches our children that they are special and smarter than any adult. Twenty-somethings are convinced that smoking and drinking and unprotected sex to excess, are signs of being cool, and that reality television is real. Thirty somethings believe that raising children without the help of a partner or grandparents is OK, as long as you read the books of todays pop-psychologist. Corporate competitors are convinced that the politics of greed will allow them to live forever. Seniors are obsessed with gaining greater wealth to whittle away the time in some Florida gated community and refuse to be involved in the political arena while watching from a distance the world they helped create collapsing around them.

   We are not creating a Brave New World, and 1984 is nearly ten years in the past. We are in fact re-creating the middle ages. With self-appointed Kings surrounding themselves with greedy Barons for protection and the Church surrounding them all with pious rhetoric while gathering to themselves large amounts of unearned cash as the peasants starve in a world of plenty.

   All you brilliant young minds arguing and writing need to take to the streets before its too late. I for one would be willing to take up the banner one more time in support of freedom and the rights of man. It is after all, just common sense..

   Americans Awake! you have nothing to lose but your constitution.

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4. Luke says:

   7/21/2008 at 9:45 pm

   I noticed a young woman on the bus, about 15, reading George Orwell. Not Animal Farm, not 1984; this girl was reading Road to Wigan Pier. And she had been turned on to it by a friend, also young. She’d already read the others.
   Young people are alive and well, and being activist, and acting locally, and thinking globally.
   Micro credit programs exist in Seattle. Another bus patron was telling me where he applied, and where to go.
   Chicago has a Green Roofs program that every building of a certain type must be constructed with a green roof system.
   New York City is considering charging a city entrance fee to reduce driving.
   Bus ridership, car pooling, car pool lanes, and more efficient driving practices are up by all accounts, all over the country.
   George Bush’s term is ending.
   People are down, and bad shit is happening with torture and all the rest, but I see evidence of people setting up systems outside, around, and off “official channels”. To network, communicate, and eventually resist.
   There is room for hope, and hopeful things happening every day, and though there is a lot of room to despair, hang in there man!

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5. Tom says:

   7/22/2008 at 7:57 am

   Just laugh about it all! The Bilderberg group or whoever thinks they’re in control will get a rude awakening when they’re unsustainable “world plan” goes belly up BECAUSE THEY CAN’T CONTROL CLIMATE CHANGE (or the fact that the oceans are dying from constant pollution, increased heat and added freshwater from melting bergs, glaciers and the icecaps). Soon (within 100 years)the problems will become catastrophic and it’ll be far too late to do anything about it.

   Life is a meaningless set of circumstances that constantly change driven by entropy. So since it doesn’t matter, enjoy yourself and do the best you can at whatever you’re interested in at the moment. Love while you can.

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6. Ralph says:

   7/22/2008 at 1:16 pm

   Hey, good plan.

   When the coastal cities flood and a billion people wander inland, destitute, competing for your job…

   Why, everybody will just say gosh, let’s all wake up! And we will all join hands and sing Koombaya.

   Or we won’t, but at least the liberals will be able to say “I told you so.”

   The end of the world won’t save us. It will still be the same old shit.

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