Are you angry? Who should you be angry at??

[kentuck]

You read. You research the facts. You take your vote seriously. You try to educate and inform people in your circles. You hand out literature door to door. You make phone calls. You donate money.

After all your efforts, you are told that the "other" side is winning. Obviously they do not have the same facts on hand that you have. They do not read the same information. They don't have Google - they have a town crier.

It makes you angry that the "stupid" side is winning. How do you know they are stupid? They show their stupidity every time they open their mouths. They have no grasp of the facts. And it makes you angry that these folks get to decide our future.

But should you be angry at these stupid voters? Or should you be angry at those that work to keep these folks stupid, including the media? The more controversy and division they can create, the more money they can make.

Reportedly, there will be over $4 billion dollars spent on this election. The media gets a big chunk of that. Election day is like Christmas for these folks. Shouldn't this be where the anger is directed?

[treestar]

1. Ultimately I believe in personal responsibility

So I blame the voters. They don't get to sit back and claim the media made them do it. They have the option of spending more time informing themselves.

[CBR]

2. I am not angry. Too exhausting to spend my life angry. nt

[ThatsMyBarack]

3. Bill Brady and Mark Kirk

Cuz they won't shut up and go away! :mad:

[seabeyond]

4. i told a minister who also runs a private school. i dont blame the christians that hate in the name

of the lord. i blame the preachers that have such an awesome responsibility to these people that offer their souls and are taught to hate, thru the preachers own word. that the preacher has such a huge responsibility and when he does that to his followers, just a huge ass shame on him.....

he got it. lol. gosh, they loved me so as i called them out all over the place

i dont blame the stupid, i put it on the liars. i dont like that they are stupid. i get frustrated adn angry at the stupid. but i blame those that have the power and responsibility and with that, they abuse it.

[JustAnotherGen]

5. I agree with treestar

And I think there are enough voters on the Right that relish the idea of every single thing the Teapublicans are 'promising'.


So eh? Not only do I think they are NOT stupid - I think there is a certain reptilian coldness to many of these people. The mentality of seeing a cold, hungry, homeless American five year old child and their first instinct is: You disgust me. Get a job. You make me sick. Get out of my sight. How DARE you be born poor in America. It's your own stupid fault.

I truly, deeply, believe this is the mentality of many people in the Teapublican party. They don't like ANY Americans that don't think, act, walk, talk just like them. And it shows in how they vote . . .

[slackmaster]

6. I think being angry is self-destructive and a waste of time and energy

If you aren't generally happy in your day-to-day life, you're doing it wrong but that is your choice.

[kentuck]

7. Perhaps more people are discouraged and unenthusiastic?

...than angry?

[slackmaster]

8. I can speak only for myself. I feel none of the above personally.

I derive satisfaction from growing and creating things in my personal life, learning new things, interacting with interesting people socially, and stuff like that.

I have only a tiny amount of influence over political events and trends. I contribute what I can, then accept and live with the results.

[kentuck]

9. That is admirable.

You are probably an exception?

[slackmaster]

11. I think age has something to do with it

I'm in my 50s. If you had asked me 30 years ago if I was angry, I probably would have answered "Yes".

[mdmc]

10. I am angry that I live in pain

I am angry that I have full health insurance and still lack access to medical treatment that could reduce the pain that I have to live with.

Should I be angry at the tea-baggers? Or at the DLC? Should I be angry with stupid American voters that don't want a single payer system - or the media that reports that stupid American voters don't want a single payer system (when stupid polls show 70% of stupid voter want a single paying system).

At least the teabaggers are angry.
The DLC had the power to give us a single payer system, and didn't. Now they want to run on health care reform, while I am fully insured and living in pain without access to affordable medical care.

So I will be angry at myself; I am sick, I don't earn enough money to afford medical treatment, and don't have better insurance.

[kctim]

12. Not angry at all

but I don't think all people who dare have their own opinions are stupid or that my personal view of the facts means I'm smarter.

[kentuck]

13. But that doesn't mean there are no stupid people.

Right?

Otherwise, I would agree with you.

[kctim]

15. Of course there are stupid people

but they are not defined by their views of the facts, what they read or because they do not 'Google' the same things. Such reasoning is why some wish to boot moderate Dems out of the party.

[kentuck]

16. Of course they are defined by their view of the facts...

For example, if they say there is no such thing as "global warming", the facts would contradict them. If they say Obama has already spent more than all other Presidents combined, that is not factual. If they say Obama was born in Kenya and not Hawaii, they are ignoring the facts. They are defined by their views of the facts.

[Iggo]

14. It's no either/or.

I'm mad at the stupid people AND the people who keep them stupid. And that ain't all...

[rucky]

17. I get emails from right wing friends.

In less than 5 minutes on Google, I can usually resoundingly debunk the shit they forward.

Have I changed one single mind? No.

I blame teh stupid.

[Tsiyu]

18. The anger should be reserved for the rich

for corporations, for crooked politicians and for the SCOTUS who have rigged the game so brilliantly.

I believe good, normal people want to share, want to adequately compensate workers, want to take care of the least of these, don't want to wage war, don't want a huge chunk of their citizens to be imprisoned, don't agree with torture under any circumstances, care about the environment and want rights for all citizens.

But the GREED and LOVE OF POWER have been ruling legislation and federal and state and local politics for so long, normal people are shut out of the process.

Not to fear, however. My take on what I see is that the media/corporate mutation we call Business and The Press are on an endless feedback loop to themselves. THEY are the only ones who believe their own lies and THEY are the only ones listening to them. They have fooled themselves into believing they were actually swaying the populace with this teabag crap, and now they are too dumb to realize they pushed it so far people turned away.


The few remaining fools who buy the teabag/media/big business hype are growing desperate because they know it isn't working. Their frustration is leading to violence. They think they can FORCE others to take them seriously, just like the delusional abusive sociopaths they are.

Shame on Big Business, politicians and the media who want to give us crap, instead of giving back to this nation to build a better one. Shame on them. That's where our anger should lie.

[deaniac21]

19. I am angry at sentences ending with prepositions!

[bobbolink]

20. I'm angry at an affluent country that doesn't give a damn about poverty.

I'm very clear about my anger, thankyouverymuch.

When the rest of you decide we matter, let me know.