I don’t usually get too personal on this blog, but here’s a rare exception, so if you’re not into hearing me venting, click somewhere else today, I can dig it. Every now and then I get into a funk when I think about the state of the nation. As I was doing some last minute holiday shopping in Burlington today and saw so much ‘stuff’ being bought, it hit me.

Mostly, as I read the news and see how Bush is obviously not going to budge on Iraq, and I don’t think the Dems have the balls to cut off funding or impeach or anything else daring and effective, the anger hits me, but it’s not so much the anger at the government. I’m really mad at the ordinary people in this country who have enabled all of this bad behavior. Whether it be because of the intellectual deficiencies that allow them to be so easily emotionally manipulated, or the laziness that prefers American Idol to Being Informed, or just the fact that so many in this country are shallow, selfish and materialistic and just buy in to all the rah-rah we’re #1 bullshit, it drives me insane. Many of us acted like little, scared, whiny pants-poopers after 9-11, and didn’t learn a goddamn thing.  And I’ve really had it up to here with fundamentalists, like this asshole.  I can’t help but agree with this by Jesse over at TV News Lies:

All I can say is that this is what you get for believing even for a moment what the US corporate media wants you to believe. The rest of us Bush haters are Bush haters for one reason and one reason only; we pay attention! So to my new former Bush supporting friends who seem to be suddenly surrounding me and telling me that I have been right all along: you can tell me I was right but after that shut the hell up because it is too late for forgiveness. From now on, just shut up and listen. Think about it!

It’s easy to say that, well, “we get what we deserve”. I sure as hell don’t deserve what has been happening to this country. Do you?

You can read more of JD Ryan at five before chaos. But why would you want to?