I'm 55 years old. I've been fighting Republican and conservadem bullshit since long before the word "teabagger" crawled out from under the rug. I've still got a lot of fire in me though, enough to spend countless hours this year trying to win a strong, for-real progressive candidate against the wicked witch of the west, Rep. Virginia Foxx (Nutjob, NC). (And BTW, my progressive candidate is a lot better looking than that sorry ass Scott Brown.)
But I digress.
You think Obama's got shit on his plate? You think the Senate Democrats are up against the wall? You think Nancy Pelosi is up against insurmountable odds? You think YOU got no choice but to just give up and let today's Supreme Court decision stand?
Heh. Look what's on my plate.
It's easy enough to look back at my comments and recommends and see that I've been just as mad (if not madder) at the national Democrats, the national party, and President Obama himself than just about any one else here. I've worked my ass off for healthcare in particular, waiting each day for slink's and nyceve's diaries to make my calls and send my faxes.
I get out of bed pissed off most of the time these days.
But the Democrats in Washington are not the progressive movement in this country. We are. And we can't afford to quit fighting. Just a quick look at one headline of what the Supreme Court did to our country today should be our call to action. Not an excuse for saying "see there, it's hopeless."
We've got to pick ourselves up and pull this country back up. If President Obama finds some resolve for a change, I say that's a good thing. If he doesn't, so what. He won't be the first one, and I'm sure he won't be the last, I see fall by the wayside in the good fight.
That's what happens in wars against the enemy. We lose a few good souls along the way. But I'm still standing, even though the years are going faster, and I'll be damned if I won't do everything in my power to leave this world better than I found it. Even if it's just a little better.
It's the bad souls, not our wounded, we've got to focus on now. We'll come back and pick up our wounded when we return from the victory fields.
"Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
I'm no pollyanna, but I'm not going to quit just because their guns are bigger and they yell louder. I relish the fight. Because there's just too much at stake.