V for Validation

Graduated from college: Check. Recession making it impossible to find work in my field: Check. Difference between 2011 and 19 years ago is there is a LOT more people in this situation, and their disillusionment has reached critical mass. Washington and people in power still think that it's business as usual and the "experts" on TV haven't got a damn clue. Still, there is something refreshing about so many people being truly fed up. It's about time. Where this goes from here is anyone's guess. Does Obama get it? It's hard to tell, as he seems to being playing politics with the whole thing as the FOX candidates call the protesters "mobs". I think that's what Iran's president call protesters in HIS country. Funny how THESE people are a "mob" and the "Tea Party" are "Americans". The bottom line is that the Tea Party was the establishment pissed off that Obama had been elected (right now I’ll refrain from calling them ALL greedy racists) and these are REAL people who are in REAL trouble, not some fabricated "movement".

I guess what I'm saying is: I feel for these protestors. Do they sometimes sound idiotic? Sure. Do they seem not to have a "clearly defined message"? Sure. But if you've been out of work for a year, or two (I have recently), you might not have a clearly defined message either. It's the politician's JOB, congress’ JOB to come up with policy. That’s what they are PAID and ELECTED to do. They've failed. The President, god love 'em, has failed too. He inherited an absolutely fucked situation. That's just fine with Right and the Banks and the 1%. He goes down and we go back to waging war on the world, bankrupting the country and leaving the poor, the young, the old out in the cold. What about the future? That was the arrogance of the Bushies: they never thought they'd get old and die.  The dictators around the Middle East thought the same. Look at Rumsfeld and Cheney. They STILL don't get it: they destroyed this country and we're standing around blaming each other.

-Unquiet