Anger, and Politics:

There’s a lot of times in political discourse, when the “angry liberal” gets trotted out. Apparently, according to the way it seems to be presented, being an “angry liberal” is the worst kind of sin, and beyond the pale in modern political discourse.

Fuck that.

There are things that one should be angry about. Not only should a person be angry about them, it is inconceivable to me that people are *not* angry about them, liberal, conservative, or independant. We were brought to war on false pretenses. It’s becoming increasingly documented, despite being obvious from the get-go, that the buildup to war was predicated on lies. Lies about WMD, lies about Iraq’s terrorist ties, and lies about Saddam Hussein’s threat to the US. As a result, more than a thousand American lives have been lost, we’re more than two hundred billion dollars in the hole, and on the order of a hundred thousand Iraqis have been killed. Civilians, not insurgents. Innocents, not terrorists. And I’m angry about it. I think it is *right* to be angry about it, and I think it is *wrong* NOT to be angry about it.

But there are other things. Things like the speeches at the Clinton Library this morning, during its dedication. People talking about the Family Medical Leave Act, and how it helped on man spend his daughter’s last month with her, instead of at work. Talking about programs that helped them, as people. About how crime went down because of Clinton’s policies – every year he was in office. And looking at how the Republicans want to cut these programs, or have already cut them, and how under Bush, crime has *increased* every year, abortion rates have gone up, and basically every measure of the quality of life in our country has gone down. And it makes me angry – really, truly, deeply angry, that two weeks ago, this nightmare could have come to an end. We had a choice, as a country, to end it, and we didn’t. We didn’t. Because of some bigoted, fearful, ignorant hateful shits, we’re stuck with this miserable bastard for another four years.

So, fuck you, Republicans. Fuck you, Neoconservatives. Every single person who voted for Bush – fuck you. You assholes are going to ruin this great country, on the back of your brain-dead moron leader. Good job. Some of you are fond of telling the ones of us who made the *correct* judgement about policy, war, and why we went to war that since we were so unpatriotic, we should leave the country. Fuck that. What we should do is let our anger run free. We should stop you at every opportunity. We should block all of your policy. We should grind this country to a dead stop. You did it to us years ago when you impeached Clinton over something so trivial as an extramarital affair. Bush lied to us and people are dying on a daily basis because of it. The common defense seems to be that he’s too stupid to understand when he’s lying, so it’s not really his fault. Too fucking bad, the buck stops with him. God, I hate the idiots who voted for this asshole. Every god damned one. The world could have been a better place, today, if you fuckers all just drove off a cliff. And instead, here we are.