I ran across this accidentally while surfing for something else. It’s part of a longer post, and to get the full flavor you should read the whole thing.
Angry Mob or Just Really Frustrated Americans? « Arkansas Soaper
I am not a Republican, nor am I a Democrat, so take that for what it’s worth. I consider myself an Independent. The Republican party has not paid me to feel the way I do, and I happen to AGREE with what people are saying in these town hall meetings.
More often than not, I find myself yelling at the television over the stupidity coming out of Washington.
My personal opinion is that folks in Washington are so out of touch with middle class, mainstream Americans, they have no idea why we should be upset. They claim they are doing what they are for “the good of the people”.
Hogwash.
Ask your representative what laws we have that give them the right to force these policies on us. Ask them if they are willing to go on the national health plan they are proposing. Ask them if they can live on what the average national salary is and live in a home that is on the national average as well.
They aren’t willing to do any of that.
That’s the point.
They want to tell us how to live, but are not willing to abide by the same rules themselves.
And this new Cash for Clunkers plan? What are they going to do when folks start defaulting on these loans they’ve taken out? This is a BILLION DOLLARS of our tax money being spent on this program.
How higher does the deficit have to go before it is enough?
The bottom line is this – people are frustrated. Many of them have lost jobs. Many are facing homelessness. Most of us have lost something in this economic downturn.
We are tired of Wall Street executives getting OUTRAGEOUS bonuses with our tax dollars for a job they have NOT done well.
We are tired of Senators buying new airplanes for themselves because they don’t want to fly coach with everyone else.
We are tired of “too big to fail” when regular businesses who make bad decisions are forced to close or go into bankruptcy.
We are tired of flooding our representatives phone lines begging them not to vote for things only to be told they will vote “for what seems best to them”.
In short, we are tired.
We are tired of not being listened to. We are tired of being told that this administration “inherited the problem”. Sorry folks – unemployment is worse now than it was in January. It is officially your baby – you rock it.
We are frustrated.
We are average people.
We are all races, creeds, and colors.
Daring to speak out against what we know is wrong?
What did you really expect?
People can only be pushed so far before they start to push back.
Elections are coming in 2010.
I will personally vote for ANY candidate other than who our current incumbants are, just to get them out of office.
A tsunami is coming next year that most of the political elites have no clue is heading their way.
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I would say the political establishment, as there is nothing elite about this clownish crew at all, except in their own twisted minds.
But they think they’re elites, p g. That’s part of the problem. It’s amazing that our elite elected officials, their elite advisers and the nation’s “intellectual” elite can’t see the storm brewing. The left suffers from the Hollywood Delusion: they believe their own press clippings.
Of course they do. But how many of them do you suppose actually believe that?
Remember when the good folks who tarred and feathered the King’s tax collectors were called “patriots”?
I hope you are correct, Bill. But I suspect we will see another tsunami of American apathy. As I read the public, about 15% are angry, 30% are knowledgeable, and 70% are apathetically ignorant.
I used to think the same– that an Obama election accompanied by further solidifying Dem majorities in Congress would lead to LLL overreach, public revulsion, and landslide turnaround in the 2010 and 2012 elections.
The first part has come to pass and the second part is happening. But I’m worried about the third part, the electoral tsunami. Voter apathy and ignorance isn’t even my main concern. Election fraud is. A year ago I hadn’t realized the depth of corruption of the Obama machine. Add in voting machine fraud as is practically encouraged by the Help America Vote Act, and you nearly reach the ideal of “I don’t care who casts the votes so long as I get to count them.” (Variations of that quote are often attributed to Stalin, but that’s likely an urban legend. Regardless, many of our current political elite are unabashed Stalinists, so authenticity, like sincerity, is largely irrelevant.)