How does one find hope?
I come here on an almost daily basis, reading plans about what can be done, what should be done and who should be elected to change the current status quo. Most times, it works, if only temporarily, to life my dark mood. Than, usually less than an hour later, the hopelessness of it all hits me once again. For, even if we do get a majority in either or both Houses, where do we begin to institute the needed changes? For what I see is gross negligence from both parties towards American and her people. How does any party begin to clean up this mess? It is all so gawd awful and it all needs to be done immediately and I cannot remember this country ever being in such an all out mess. Do we start by pulling out of Iraq? How do we begin to fix global warming with the urgency required? Hell, we cannot even fix the Gulf Coast. How do we improve education with the urgency required? We have the dumbest president ever. How do we fix diplomatic relations around the world? How do we buy back our country from all who own parts of it? How do we get the deficit down? How to repay those who've served so well and seen their benefits taken away? How do we know that our votes even count? I want to believe that we can make a difference, but I've come across a wall of despair. I can't even sum up the energy out of my hopelessness to write LTE anymore for I cannot see that they make a real difference. How do we give Americans medical insurance with real and practical solutions? How do we lift the millions of Americans out of poverty? How can we provide more jobs, when they aren't here anymore? How do we tackle and take care of the rising costs of energy? How do we help our children when they can see the mess as well as we can? How to fight the MEN who want to take away many if not all of women's rights? (Yes, I know, not all men do, just the ones in power) There is so much more that needs fixing and how does any one party do this with the urgency required in all areas? I think both parties need to work together to fix this country if they truly love it, but I don't think they do. It seems to me that love of the almighty dollar has superceded love of country. Not only do I see the parallels between now and Nazi Germany, I see them between now and the Roman empire in the years preceding its collapse. I'm looking for reasons to hope, I used to be an optimist, but I can't find anything that sustains me for long.