You're damn right I am bitter!

[Bjorn Against]

Yes, I am bitter. I am bitter to be living under a government that cares more about making the rich richer than they do in providing some security to those of us in the working class. I am bitter to see people living without health care while trillions are being spent on an illegal occupation of Iraq. I am bitter to see our environment being destroyed by corporate interests while our government cheers them on. I am bitter to see our Constitution being ripped to shreds.

I may not live in Pennsylvania, but I have no doubt that there are plenty of voters in Pennsylvania who are just as bitter as I am. We are bitter and we are not ashamed of being bitter, instead we are ashamed of the politicians who made us feel this way.

We are ashamed of the people who voted to authorize a madman to invade a country which posed us no threat. We are ashamed of the people who stood up for corporate lobbyists while ordinary citizens were being trampled. We are ashamed of the politicians who took money from the pharmaceuticals and insurance companies while tens of millions of people were being denied health care.

Now one man has stood up and said the truth about the way we are feeling, and of course the people who made us so bitter in the first place have denounced the man for pointing out our bitterness. They want to pretend that the voters are not bitter about what they have done, they want to pretend that everyone looks at them and sees some great hope.

They may want to believe that we are feeling totally positive about the ways in which they have lead our country, but we are not. We are bitter and we want the politicians to either address the issues that concern us or to step down from office so we can get someone who will address the issues that concern us. We are not concerned about people using the word bitter to describe us, we are concerned about our family members who don't have health insurance because they have been screwed by the very insurance companies that are donating money to our politicians campaigns. We are concerned that we have politicians who believe that when our economy starts falling apart we should be sending more money to Iraq rather than investing in America. We are concerned about a great number of issues, and until we have politicians who are willing to address those issues rather than trying to pretend that we are not bitter we are going to continue to be very upset.

So yes, I am bitter and I am not ashamed of being bitter. It is those who try to pretend that I have no reason to be bitter that should be ashamed.

[Saturday]

1. I'm not ashamed because I have "HOPE". LOL No more coffee for you.

:sarcasm:

ETA sarcasm emoticon

[Bjorn Against]

5. I don't find hope in candidates I find hope in people who are bitter about what is happening...

I don't feel particularly hopeful when I see so many people who are more concerned about someone pointing out that people are bitter than in actually doing something to address that bitterness.

I don't find hope in any candidate, I find hope when I see people standing up and saying enough. I am glad Obama is willing to address the bitterness, but I don't find hope in him personally I find hope in the millions of people who would rather have him than the alternatives.

[Saturday]

7. I just added the sarcasm emoticon. nt

[joeybee12]

2. Then I guess you'll go vote against gay marriage and for gun rights...

...don't just focus on the bitterness, try to rationalize how BO tried to rationalize the mentality of people who are bitter.

[Bjorn Against]

6. I won't vote against gay marriage and I don't know where you get that idea...

I have some very serious issues with Obama on the gay rights issue, and I have some very serious issues with Hillary as well. I am bitter that gays don't receive equal treatment under the law, and until all Americans are treated equally politicians will have to see my bitterness.

And no, I will not "try to rationalize" anything that already is completely rational. We have good reasons for being bitter about what is going on, and we don't need politicians to tell us that we don't have good reasons.

[spartan61]

3. Well said and I'm with you 100%!!!

[Jensen]

4. Count me in the Bitterville pool also!

No, I don't live in PA or OH but like many of them have lost my pension while the CEO makes millions in Golden Parachutes! I've had enough of NAFTA, CAFTA and LIES!
I've had enough of lies to last me a life time and will not be distracted by fake outrage from Hillary nor Mc! So call me Bitter and Angry for I'm!

[caledesi]

14. I agree....live in Tampa NT

[Jackpine Radical]

8. Bitter? Fuck no, I'm not bitter.

I'm fucken OUTRAGED.

From Nixon to now, it has grown. Carter snuck in in the aftermath of Watergate and Ford's pardon, and they crippled him with oil-diriven inflation and then killed him off with their cynical dealing with Iran on the hostage crisis. Clinton? There were some good things about those years such as the reduction of the deficit and a better tax policy, but there were also NAFTA, welfare reform, "Don't Ask," the blowjob, and the poisoning of the well that prevented an unstealable landslide for Gore.

These have not been good years for a progressive, a liberal. America hasn't had a lot of years that were good for my kind, I guess, but the years since '68 have been among the worst. They must have put something in the drinking water that blinds the working people to their own interests, that makes them turn against their own unions, against the politicians who would advance their causes, against their own brothers and sisters, that corrupts their natural generosity and perverts it into petty hatreds driven by a perverted understanding of morality, while the moneyed interests drive the planet to the edge of extinction.

It ain't easy being outraged for this long. I wonder if I can remember how to set the burden down and turn my whole soul to life-giving thoughts and actions, with a spring again in my step and uncontainable joy in my heart. I want that. I want to feel my whole being reverberating to the hum of energy in an America with a renewed soul.

[femrap]

9. I think I passed bitter

a long time ago....I'm mad as hell and don't want to take it anymore. I'm closer to 'outraged.'

I hope everyone will watch the movie, 'Network,' again. This was filmed in 1976 and it was truly prophetic.

I'm hopeful about a few things...I'm hopeful to get off the gird in the near future so I'm no longer dependent on utility companies. I'm hopeful about planting my own food and that it will provide good nutrition. In fact, I'm more than hopeful about these two things, I BELIEVE I can do this.

I put very little hope in others...especially politicians. They are beholding to others who are much richer than me.

It's time to get LOCAL.

[Bjorn Against]

11. Network is probably my all time favorite movie

Yes, I will watch it again. And again. And again. And I will get others to watch it with me, because it is a movie everyone should see.

[femrap]

13. It is rarely rerun on TV....

I wonder why? And another movie I never see rerun on TV is 'Soylent Green.' Remember that one? Maybe with Charlton Heston's passing, it will be dusted off and shown. But I doubt it. Edward G. Robinson was in it as well.

[Lou Queb]

10. Amen, great post, ever though of public speeches ?

Im with you.

[Mika]

12. I'm bitter because so few even care.

When presented with the ugly truth, too many avert their eyes.

War is peace
Freedom is slavery