anger, misery / you'll suffer unto me

[rone]

I'm tired of being angry.

I'm angry because of how the whole soccer team thing fell out.  I'm angry because of this Bucaram bullshit.  I'm angry because our government is just about as shameful as Ecuador's — and i'm normally one who scoffs at bleeding-heart liberals who carry on about how 'ashamed' they are to be an American these days, but mother-FUCK!  Years of lies, obfuscations, misdirections, shamelessness, unaccountability, and manipulation from the democratically elected leaders of this country, the majority of which belong a political party that will not only not remove a clear and obvious criminal from their ranks (yes, Tom Cornholing DeLay, i'm talking about you), but actually aid and abet his immorality, all while the party in opposition is as ineffective as a sorority girl on GHB and the media watches the proceeding date rape like drunken frat brothers who think that maybe they should intervene, but damn, their bro is getting some action, maybe they oughta cheer him on!

Lastly, i'm angry at myself because i'm in a hell of a slump at work and in my creative efforts.  Anger used to sustain me in both, long ago, but i'm not young and single anymore (so did caffeine, i guess; no surprise there, i'm sure there's some connection).  Anger was what i turned to in college when i decided that being depressed wasn't good for me.  But i'm burned out.  I think that this is what i was trying to get at a few days ago.  I want to be at peace.  I want to not be angry anymore.  But how can i fucking help it when it feels that the world is truly conspiring against my inner peace?  Shutting myself out of the world is just security through obscurity, and i am not an island.

WE ARE ALL ONE PEOPLE, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES.  QUIT FUCKING AROUND.

Comments

[opadit.livejournal.com]

I don't mean this flippantly, but maybe you would consider going to a Green Party (http://www.gp.org/) meeting. Here in Pennsylvania, our Democrat options tend to be anti-choice (Casey) and pro-death-penalty (Governor Rendell and the current attorney general), so the Green Party tends to meet the needs of the Democrats who have been left behind by Democratic Party leaders who are trying to woo liberal Republicans away from the Religious Right Republicans.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

They're a bit too Leftist for me, but i've kept them in mind before (and voted for Camejo for governor back when Gray Davis won).

[eagle]

Well, all the needs except actually standing a chance of putting someone in an influential national office. (Or even state-wide, really.)

Not that I have better ideas. At least the Green Party stopped letting themselves get screwed over by Ralph Nader (who, after the Shiavo fiasco, I have lost my last shred of remaining respect for, other than an acknowledgement that he did some good stuff in the past).