I Am the Angry Left

I'm furious. I can't wake up from the circular frustration dream that is 21st century America. I run and run but I make no progress. I scream but no sound comes out. I follow the big, stupid baby around saying "no no, don't put that in your mouth, it's yucky" but she eats the dog shit every time.

I stand at the mouth of a dead-end alley and say "this is not the way home" but the crowd stomps past me yelling "traitor" and "latte drinker" as they drag me along. They forgot about the brick wall at the other end. They built it but that was long ago and not worth considering. The only question now is how many children will we need to beat against the wall to knock it down. They point to every precious skull-chiseled chip in the brick and say "look! why won't you admit this is working!"

Conservative American's are afraid of everything. They are afraid to venture out of their own cul-de-sac, fearful of anything beyond that stop sign. They celebrate ignorance, ignore science, demonize the educated and self-righteously impose their narrow morality, even as one after another of their own invariably sprints off the path. How many anti-gay crusaders turned meth snorting man-whore does it take? How many abstinence-only preaching moms of knocked-up, promise ring-wearing teenage girls until the reality-based stand up and say "ENOUGH".

There is no press. There are 1000 slots on the cable guide but only 5 channels. 5 channels dedicated to keeping Americans stupid. 5 channels that ignore the urgent and create false urgency about the trivial. They dutifully report every lie Republicans utter, and believe me that's a frickin full time job.

Now the same folks that gave us 8 years of Republican disaster, dragging our country right down into the crapper, led by a teeny, tiny, schoolyard bully of a rich boy, who now has a perfect record of never succeeding at anything, are dragging themselves up off the floor yelling "please kick me again!"

I'm sorry, that pisses me off.