Politics?

Feb
2008

Politics?

So let me start out by saying that I live and work in Michigan. It would be safe to say that Michigan has been hit the hardest during this recession. I live in a suburb about 30 minutes outside of Detroit. Please take a peek at Detroit’s current political TMZish issue here. The past few years I have watched as friends have been laid off, moved to a different states, and had to make their weekly calls to the unemployment hot line. The news is constantly announcing big companies leaving the state for cheaper labor in the South or the now infamous “best shore” solution.

This is only one political worry I have. There are other issues like the envoirnment, gay marriage, social security, and health insurance. In this post I’m not looking for those who agree with what I agree with. What I’m asking is how many of you feel hopeless when it comes to politics?

Before you ask me what I do to support my causes, I’m well aware of what I could or should do, but even if I did all of it I would still feel hopeless. Hopeless all the way up to casting my vote and knowing it may not even matter per the electoral college.

Will any of these people manage to change anything? Will Obama “Bring change?” Will Hillary actually be able to convince the senate to approve universal health care? Eh, probably not. I’ll vote, but I know a lot of people won’t because they too feel hopeless.

I’d like to hear your thoughts on the matter for or against.

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I know exactly what you mean.

I’ll vote for who I think is the most sincere, but I know that either they will forget their promises when the win or there will be so much backlash from the rich trying to continue stomping on the poor, there’s no way that they will get anything through.

We desperately need universal healthcare. Not one more person should die or be maimed because they suffer from lack-of or not-enough-insurance-itis.

We watched SiCKO the other day and it really made me SICK.

But I know the reality. I have hope for change.

But I expect none.

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by Tina-cious.com on February 4th, 2008 at 3:21 PM

I volunteered in 2004. I donated. I received tons of emails. I got burned out on the whole thing.

I agree that nothing much will change, but I pray that we won’t get another Bush-type. I don’t think our country can afford to lose more rights and more respect in the world.

I have been sending the multitude of political donation emails to spam. The number may finally be decreasing.

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by Jan on February 4th, 2008 at 5:16 PM

i understand the frustration. and certainly shared it coming out of ’00 and ’04.

but i have to believe we’re at one of those watershed moments in U.S. history. ’cause if we don’t have hope, what do we have?

there’s so much at stake — healthcare, the environment, economic inequities and realities.

i know. pie in the sky. but sometimes ya have to say what if…

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by lynt on February 4th, 2008 at 10:15 PM

I can only say that I feel hopeless because I live in a country where I pay all the taxes, pay all the bills etc but I have not the right to vote, to say what I really think.

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by Acquafortis on February 5th, 2008 at 2:56 PM

If you want real change you have to give up on the false opposition. Hillary and Obama are both state-sponsored corporatists and you know this because that’s who they get their money from. There is only one candidate who gets his money from REAL PEOPLE and who actually wants to make us FREE again. That is RON PAUL… And as a gay man who technically shouldn’t post on a lesbian blog but who is just so passionate that I want to share, I can promise you that Ron Paul IS hope for America and that Libertarian IS the new Liberal!!

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by Mikester on February 7th, 2008 at 2:58 AM