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What strikes me about Glenn's post today is the fury in his words. It mimics my feelings exactly. I have a political blog which I find harder and harder to post to because I have almost nothing rational left to write. Like most of us here, no matter how bad things got, I always believed that eventually the truth would win out and force the ugly, slathering, power-hungry, lying neo-cons and their enablers back under their rocks. This has been the bedrock of my belief in America, the bedrock of my sanity.
In the past month, however, something has happened to that belief. When the Democrats quickly caved on the wiretap legislation as they scurried away on vacation, something seismic hit me. These were the Democrats, not the despised Republicans. These were the people we reached deep into our pockets and funded, the party we worked so damn hard to elect. They. Betrayed. Us. They betrayed the American People! Is it possible we've been totally and irreversibly screwed?
With this seismic hit on our once-solid confidence in the power of Truth, we now see "respected, serious, experts" all spinning the truth to insure our continued occupation of Iraq. Why, for God's sake? How much more of this shit must we take? If our government has betrayed us, if our "serious" experts and their enabling press has betrayed us, if the Democrats(!) have betrayed us, what recourse is left? Are we being pushed to the almost unthinkable last resort: revolution? Yes, that has crossed my mind. I feel that fury in Glenn's post, and in my gut.
