I'm AFRAID to say I am a Democrat!

And that is a crying shame!! My fellow Americans have become so vitriolic & hateful, I don't think I want to be called an American!! I am ASHAMED OF MY COUNTRY!

I am appalled at the downright guillessness that has become our moral fiber. When did the languange in the Declaration of Independence change? When did the language in the Constitution change? I don't recall that any laws have been passed that restrict any of the Constitutions' Amendments. I don't recall that any "freedoms" have been lost or that our freedom as an American citizen has been unjustly infringed upon. When did terrorists begin to look like the kid down the street--- so firm in his belief in Jesus/Christianity that he will bomb a clinic full of women? or slit the throat of a man who has worked a menial thankless job for 15 years trying to become a citizen?

I am so tired of being ashamed to say that unless the left stands up for ALL, then we will all Hang!!! The right is only interested in profit & uniformity.

I understand the frustration of the right-- they want to make everybody just like them. I believe in some geographic addresses on this globe, that is called communism. Or the right wants everbody to pray just like they do-- that is called socialism. When did the left become scared to call those who are farther right than moderate for what they are--- Anti-American. Anti-freedom loving people. When power corrupts, and it does so Absolutely, it not only creates a power vacuum, that vacuum can lead directly to anarchy.

I don't understand--- so many right and Republican politicians with so many bullseyes on their back and nobody wants to stick their neck out because the economy / jobs are in the crapper.
Which doesn't bode well for the left--- but how did we get here? Why won't any member of Congress stand up and shout, from those hallowed halls... 8 years of gorging ourselves on our own flesh-- so to speak-- is not an easy debt to remove.

Housing is down because unregulated mortgage brokers tricking people into buying a bigger house than they could afford, then sticking the investing public with the bill. The market tanked due to unregulated securities being rated & passed on to government / pensions plans / highnetworth investors as credible investments while the unregulated industry made bets against those investment & then took out insurance on them incase they failed. There were 2 wars, Iraq & Afghanistan, that were NEVER in ANY BUDGET presented to Congress-- so $10 BILLION a month was walking out the door. We had to HAVE No Child Left Behind so the children of this country could learn to not appreciate ANYTHING & hate learning & knowing the value of an education. Oh and let's not forget the Senior population that was completely fucked by a REPUBLICAN congress & president--- the Medicare Part D is a joke. AND NONE OF IT WAS PAID FOR-- There were NO budget cuts-- in fact, looking at most publicly obtainable graphs of the deficit, it grew 3 times faster under a Republican president/congress than under those on the left.

So someone please tell me where I can go to lodge a complaint against a political party? I have never in my life been more ashamed to say I am a Democrat. I am a responsible hard working middle class American. I strive, work, toil, for just a little bit better than I was given-- if not for myself, then I owe it to those who came before me. I strive, work, toil to give those who will come after just a little bit more that I had. There is NOTHING written in our beloved Documents that says I have to be Christian, or believe in Jesus, or that I can be hateful to ALL except those who look like me. Wars have been started over lesser injustices and more important causes.

I can't believe the generation that I grew up thinking I knew have now become so narrow minded, short sighted, intolerant, & repubnant that I don't even want to be part of the generation to which I used to be think was the end of the Baby Boom. The part of those who were given extra ordinary opportunities to understand the world as our parents had not. Were given the seeds of inquisitiveness that grew to giant ideas. Were given the freedom from the drudgery of the mundane. Were given these tools & look what we have done with them?

Overindulged our lives & those of the children in Generation X, Y, Next, etc. Became so enamored of material wealth as well as debt that we forgot how to make a product, and make it well. The current indulgence of bigotry has let down those who fought & died for the freedom of ALL Americans, not just those who look like the membership list of Augusta National.

I ask again, Where are those Americans who wanted more of this American dream for ALL Americans? I haven't seen them lately. I have seen a group of people masquerading about, inciting fear & hatred, requiring adherence to "their" way of the American Dream-- and I have seen no one stand up against it. No one seems to want to put their neck out for fear of losing their seat in Congress. Well, my fellow Americans---

It's time to put our foot down. It is time to stand up against the Tyranny of Conservatism. The Bombastic Takeover of The People. There is no one so dispicable as someone who would mistrust his fellow citizen so much as to command that each citizen look like him. We are not, and we should not be cowed into these positions by people who, for the sake of fear, bigotry, & purgatory, are so morally & intellectually corrupt, they would be shot as seditionists in other countries. We've become a nation of consumers, not citizens, and until We The People are fed up with Them the Corporations, we are a nation that is almost lost. Our Country needs us.