Waiting On Our World To Change

I have lost faith in this country’s leaders.

I’m a registered Libertarian, but, because I wanted to see major changes, last November, I dipped my pen on the Democratic side of my ballot (I voted absentee).

I hoped against all reason I have come to understand (that when shown the full light of day, Democrats are no better for our country than Republicans: there is no lesser of two evils when it comes to the “ruling” political parties) that our world would change for the better.

Like everyone else, I’m still waiting.

The Democrats poll numbers are in the crapper, yet, they continue to side with the Bush administration (despite his own low poll numbers) to take away our rights.

It’s like they forgot all about how last November we voted for them to change the status quo and rid of us the scourge that is Bush/Cheney.

In the meantime, Pelosi and Reid and the rest, continue to pat the voters on the head saying “There, there, little voter. We’re the professionals. Let us handle your country the way we think is best. Even if we betray your vote, TRUST US, it’s for a very, very good reason.”

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

Day after day, we are watching our rights being compromised by people we elected to help stem the tide and reverse the erosion started by the Bush Administration.

Sadly, things are coming to light now, that if we knew them a year ago, we may not have been so hasty as to support “our good friends,” the Democrats.

For instance, Bush has been spying on Americans since BEFORE 9/11/2001! Our “good friend,” Nancy Pelosi has apparently known about the spying for years, yet, she did nothing and said nothing about it. Now, bully for her, she’s the Speaker of the House! Ya’ll think she would be Speaker if the American people had heard how she may have sat by and helped sell our rights down the river (and that she may have known BEFORE 9/11/2001! Funny: those wire taps did not aid in the halting of the biggest terrorist attack this country has ever seen…)?

Maybe now we have a whiff of why Pelosi took “impeachment off the table”. Maybe she is, in one way or another, as complicit in the loss of our constitutional rights, as Herr Bush and Darth Cheney?

Honestly, I don’t presume to know anything. I’m just tired. I’m tired of politicians selling out my future and my children’s future. I’m sick of crazy people running this country into the ground.

I’m sick of saying “good-bye” to my husband every other year. And what for? Our leaders have been stabbing us in the back since BEFORE 9/11, yet, we are still fighting the “war on terra”. After 7 years, they should have figured out how to get the “bad guys” by now. Yet, we hear that “Nope, we aren’t any safer since starting the war on terra!”

Our long National Nightmare is getting scarier and scarier and despite the best efforts of some of our loudest voices and busiest activists, we are no better off today than we were a year ago. In fact, we are worse off, as the Democrats continue to cow to the Bush Administration and give him exactly what he wants when they should be standing up to him and the rest of Republicans and demanding (and returning) our country back to the people who came out in droves and elected them.

15 months is too long to wait…

At least it appears that some Democrats (like Sen. Chris Dodd) are fighting Bush’s (and the telecoms) attempts to roll back our Fourth Amendment rights (and get immunity/amnesty for breaking the law…since BEFORE 9/11!).

(Gracefully crossposted at Dizzy Dayz and The Katrinacrat blog and The Sirens Chronicles)