Reply #57: Yaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa gggggggggggggghhhhh!!!!!!

[damntexdem]

Huh? Oh, yeah -- it wasn't easy. Just had to take it a day at a time, even when I couldn't take it.
DU helped.

I was outraged by the stolen election, then by the domestic incompetence and international recklessness. I demonstrated in opposition to the invasion of Iraq, both before and after that crime was initiated. I campaigned for Dean in 2004, supported Kerry in the General Election. I was depressed when the election was stolen again.

Finally, in 2005, things began to pop. On August 6, I was in the first group of 100 or so who marched out in a peace demonstration along a country road to just outside Dubya's pig farm. My wife and I left after the march thinking that it was just one more demo, seen by few. We were wrong. Dubya's refusal to speak to Cindy Sheehan, a mother who had lost a son in Iraq, caught the notice of the nation. When we went back the next weekend, there were hundreds at Camp Casey I. When we returned two weeks later, there were thousands at Camp Casey II. Dubya's war crimes were just starting to catch up with him. Then, as we drove home, we encountered rain -- advance clouds from a storm in the Gulf: Hurricane Katrina. Dubya's incompetence at domestic governance, and complete obliviousness to people's needs, were just starting to catch up with him. Dubya never recovered. Then in November 2006, the Bushista mess turned into a GOP slide in the elections, and the loss of the Senate majority. After that, it was organizing for 2008 -- and we all know how that turned out.

I will say that I had the personal legacy of having been active in opposing the Viet Nam War in the 1960s and 1970s and of other political work, including support for the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s (I was too young be involved in the early years of that movement in the 50s). That did prepare me somewhat to survive the 00s and the Bushistas.