Back In The Game
Blogging can be a pain in the ass. This should be news to no one. There’s the pressure to create something every day (or close to it) even when you really, really, really don’t want to. There’s the feeling that pops up from time to time that you don’t give a damn what anyone thinks of what you say and that you barely even care yourself. There’s the question of why you are even wasting your time. Even mommy bloggers and puppy bloggers and techie bloggers can agree on these.
But then there are the liberal bloggers. These poor souls, myself included, have to suffer so many fools. They actually have to READ what these retards have to say, and I’m not merely talking about the trolls. I’m talking about [she whose name shall not be said], Charles Krauthammer, William Buckley, David Brooks, and even the local retard-o-pundit Ross McKenzie. It’s enough to drive anyone insane.
All of this and more made me delete the last blog two weeks ago.
The past two years have vividly demonstrated why we need a change in our nation. Our “president” sits idly by while war rages, impotent because of his disastrous adventurism in Iraq. Republicans continue to mock the middle class by agreeing to a minimum wage increase, but only with an accompanying massive tax incentive for the rich. And the issue of our time, the Iraq war, rages on and on with no end or victory in sight, or seemingly even possible. We’re heading for two huge anniversaries, Hurricane Katrina and September 11, and questions about the incompetence of our leadership and our nation still surface daily. But only when the nightly “news” and the “news”papers decide to cover them which is rare indeed.
But it’s also a time of great hope for progressive leadership. One need only point to Ned Lamont’s victory over Bush’s staunchest Democratic ally in the Senate to witness a sea change in American politics; a rejection not only of Republican leadership but a rejection of corruption, politics-as-usual, and rubber-stamped incumbent dominance. And the Republicans claims of victory keep ringing more hollow to more and more Americans (everybody else already realized Republicans wallow in hypocrisy and falsity as a default position).
So I’ve decided it’s time to keep up the good fight. Elections are coming up and a revolutionary spirit is in the air. No time to sit on the sidelines.
Thanks for reading.
