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jedi_of_urth) wrote2008-09-25 10:59 am
jedi_of_urth) wrote2008-09-25 10:59 am
POLITICS MAKES ME ANGRY
Actually at the moment I feel more like crying but I'm going to be angry I can tell you.
Look I don't talk politics very often on my journal because I really don't know a lot of what's going on, and in some ways I don't want to know because when I do I just lose faith in everything, but I can't ignore this:
http://current.com/items/89335495_u_s_troops_in_homeland_crowd_control_patrols_f%20rom_october_1st
It scares me too much. I'm terrified of and for my country right now. This isn't the country I was raised to believe in.
Politics is upsetting right now, so much of what the current administration is trying to sneak by in the name of "financial security" and while our eyes are on the campaign is just wrong. The McCain/Palin ticket keeps scaring me the more I learn about it. And people keep being stupid about Obama when he's actually running a pretty good campaign so I'm also mad at people.
But this...this upsets me too much to not make a politics post, that's how upset I am by it. It's not just the straw that broke the camel's back (although it is) on it's own it's just that terrifying.
I'd go into the reasons my icon is appropriate, but this isn't about fandom, this is the real world being scary.
Look I don't talk politics very often on my journal because I really don't know a lot of what's going on, and in some ways I don't want to know because when I do I just lose faith in everything, but I can't ignore this:
http://current.com/items/89335495_u_s_troops_in_homeland_crowd_control_patrols_f%20rom_october_1st
It scares me too much. I'm terrified of and for my country right now. This isn't the country I was raised to believe in.
Politics is upsetting right now, so much of what the current administration is trying to sneak by in the name of "financial security" and while our eyes are on the campaign is just wrong. The McCain/Palin ticket keeps scaring me the more I learn about it. And people keep being stupid about Obama when he's actually running a pretty good campaign so I'm also mad at people.
But this...this upsets me too much to not make a politics post, that's how upset I am by it. It's not just the straw that broke the camel's back (although it is) on it's own it's just that terrifying.
I'd go into the reasons my icon is appropriate, but this isn't about fandom, this is the real world being scary.
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Honestly, that wouldn't surprise me. The economy is in the toilet right now, unemployment is ridiculously high, the pointless, unwanted war in Iraq is still slogging along and I would not be shocked if there was some sort of uprising against the President.
I made a post on my LJ about the job fair I went to yesterday, and the amount of political talk I heard. Many, many people are extremely P.O.ed at the Bush administration right now, and are fearful for their futures. This isn't the country I was raised to believe in, either. What kind of climate will my young son grow up in? I fear for my family's future. :(
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