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Nice job, stillideealistic.

GFS — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:33:46 +0000

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Nice job, stillideealistic. I can absolutely relate to your Twilight Zone Deja Vu sort of experience. Kind of like if the fabric of space and time is wearing a little thin, and is crossing over from time to time. It makes things even more difficult to grasp. GFS

It is depressing, O! Next

stillidealistic — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:29:18 +0000

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It is depressing, O! Next post I'll be back to my cheerleading self, but we need to face facts. We can't move forward until we acknowledge how unthinkable it is to go backwards.

The GOP has given us dozens of reasons to be enthusiastic about voting for dems in Nov. and we're ignoring them at our own peril.

People seem to think that the

cmaukonen — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:39:04 +0000

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People seem to think that the media has some deep ulterior motive. On the left and on the right but I do not believe so. The media is a business therefore it has but one main motive.

To make money and what ever attracts the most viewers, gets on.

I'm so glad you've posted at

Orlando — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:51:41 +0000

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I'm so glad you've posted at Dag, Stilli! It's good to see you here. Your post is kind of depressing though. I think there are lots of little reasons we've gone down the path that we have and I think that lots of little things would have to happen to bring us back. Ultimately, whatever governments do, however bad it gets for citizens in general, most individuals will still continue to perform acts of kindness and fellowship. I suppose that comforts me somewhat.

I certainly agree that we've

stillidealistic — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:44:37 +0000

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I certainly agree that we've been distracted. That's the way the politicians want it, and the media is all too happy to help them. And Americans by and large have been asleep at the switch. It is disgraceful that people are more apt to know which celebrity is doing who, than who is on the Supreme Court and what is happening in Washington.

But the hate that is popping up is unlike anything I ever remember hearing before. I disliked Bush, but I NEVER talked about him the way people talk about Obama. The people who are packing guns to political rallies, the people who show such absolute hatred for the president, and don't even pretend to think logically...It's so over the top, and it seems to be contagious.

I hope you are right, that we really won't have a civil war...but as hatred takes hold, and resources diminish...I don't know, C...it scares me.

We did not loose our way

cmaukonen — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:32:14 +0000

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We did not loose our way Stilli. We got more and more distracted. By the media, computers, work...you name it. When Ja-Lo became more important than the Middle East. When America's Next Top Model was watched more than the news.

When writing blogs became more comfortable than protesting.

That is why there will be no real civil war. It is simply easier to get online and bitch and moan and complain than to be on the streets. There will be no civil war because the vast majority of people in the country are just too chicken shit and lazy to really fight one another.