The following is taken from Rosie O’Donnell’s blog. It’s not that I particularly agree with her political views, but I think it makes an interesting point, and she requested that others “pass it on.”
America has changed in a rather strange way. It’s more disturbing if you are on the inside than when you view it from the outside. There is a now a “pretend TV news channel” (Fox News, better named as Faux News) that devotes most of its energy to spreading propaganda. It was always to the right, but now it has dropped all pretense of impartiality. It is driving and inflaming activists most of whom are (according to polls) on the right or far right of the political spectrum, whose most coherent uttering is “We’re angry!”
You didn’t get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.
You didn’t get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy.
You didn’t get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.
You didn’t get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.
You didn’t get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.
You didn’t get mad when we spent over 600 billion(and counting) on said illegal war.
You didn’t get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq.
You didn’t get mad when you found out we were torturing people.
You didn’t get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.
You didn’t get mad when we didn’t catch Bin Laden.
You didn’t get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.
You didn’t get mad when we let a major US city, New Orleans, drown.
You didn’t get mad when we gave a 900 billion tax break to the rich.
You didn’t get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.
You finally got mad when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick.
The truth is that most of the so-called Tea Party actually got mad when a very large majority of the US electorate voted to have a black centrist President. However, it is also clear the the Tea Party has a bark that is far worse than its bite. In vote getting terms, it is clearly impotent.
In some ways, the political situation in America now resembles the early years of the rise of Nazism in Germany. Mass unemployment (way beyond current levels) would probably tip the balance, so here’s hoping it doesn’t come about.
