Fighting the Depression

There are a few reasons (new time constraints being chief among them) why this Hackwhacker has slowed down in recent weeks (fortunately, his brother Hackwhacker has been more than keeping up the struggle). As to other reasons, it would be less-than-honest (and therefore Rethuglican) if I didn't also mention my increasing gloom at the resurgence of our modern-day Know-Nothing party and the incomprehensible willingness of a large portion of the American public to give the Rethuglicans four more years to continue the damage they inflicted in the last eight. Talk about being dumber than a sack of hammers. Makes it kind of hard to get up the juice to blog.

While pondering my malaise (not the Jimmy Carter kind), I came across a short piece in Firedoglake wherein the point is made that part of the Turdblossom Rove strategy being pursued by the McBush campaign is designed to demoralize the opposition, and that it's our duty to fight back against the depression. It's not easy. (Now for some non-PC venting: It's easier fighting the dishonest and hypocritical than it is fighting the stupid, the lazy, the proudly uninformed --and yes, the racist-- who seem to make up a large chunk of the electorate. I'm speaking of those who cannot or will not connect the dots - who operate on "gut feelings" and disinformation provided by the scurrilously dishonest McBush ads and hacks. How else to explain the ease with which the Rethug team has been able to convince so many that they will bring change? Are they that easily swayed by demonstrable lies and exaggerations? So far, that would seem to be the case.)

You have to be hopeful that the current situation turns around before Election Day. Hopeful, yes. Sanguine, no.