Reply #142: Not so new.........

[PatSeg]

..........I've been here for a long time, but just recently became verbal. I get very "pissed" frequently and often curse at the TV. I tend to get emotional, but experience has taught me that though the emotions can be valuable motivators, they need to be controlled in order to be effective and persuasive. Otherwise people only "hear" the anger, not the message. It was a very HARD lesson to learn, however!

Meanwhile, I'm not about to bury the few heroes we have. People like John Conyers get enough abuse from the right. Let the republicans "eat their own". We need to stand by ours.

I lived through Watergate and the Vietnam War and remember vividly the thrill when we realized that the "system actually works". What we're experiencing now is far, far worse and I'm not as optimistic today. As such we cannot afford to be careless or foolish.

Thanks for the welcome!

Pat