Reply #135: "I CAN'T even get my neighbors interested in ANY type of political action ..." [View All]

[CrispyQ]

My friends all think I'm a political nut. Only one other friend keeps up on what's going on - the rest just don't give a damn. Like you said, most believe that they can't make a difference anyway, so why the hell care. When the biggest voting segment in our population is the non-voters, no fucking wonder we can't implement any change! And yet, I'm so discouraged that I'm almost at the point of joining them.

Arghh!!!! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

I look at the list of some of the good things Obama has done & I'm glad those things have happened. But they are mostly small social or environmental things. Am I glad we have stem cell research? Absolutely! But we also still have the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, torturers are free men, bragging about what they did on national TV, Wall St. is living large on the taxpayers dime & we are about to give the health insurance industry, who has treated it's customers like crap (!) millions of new 'mandated' customers.

I realize this is Obama's first year, but the trajectory isn't looking too good right now.