Outrage or Depression?

Which is the more appropriate response to current events? We've got suspended campaigns, a vice presidential candidate that is giving women a bad name, a huge financial crisis, and the president has ok'd the first deployment of American troops on American soil since the reconstruction. Everything is so fucked up right now, it may be hard to pay attention to all of the travesties happening at once. One has to wonder how we got here. I'm sure the explanation includes "George W. Bush," "power-hungry," and "fucking idiot."

Firstly, we have McCain suspending his campaign due to the financial crisis, blah blah blah. There's a clip out there on the interwebs of David Letterman getting pissed because McCain cancelled on him to go save the country, yet he was on a CBS news show (same network mind you) at the same scheduled time slot. Not incredibly scandalous, but incredibly tacky.

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Sarah Palin has now made a fool of herself on two network news shows. She looked foolish on Charles Gibson's program a couple of weeks ago, then I believe it was Katie Couric pwned her just a couple of days ago, both highlighting the fact that she doesn't know shit about national government and policy.

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Everyone is talking about the financial crisis. People are starting to throw out phrases like "another Great Depression." I think we can all agree that we don't want to be there. It's getting frightening, but I think most everyone agrees that giving a whole bunch of money the government has to a bunch of big businesses is not a plan the common people can get behind. We've been getting screwed by these businesses for years. Their interests always come first. I understand that the market is in a lot of trouble right now, but I feel that other options should be explored, and they should have started at the first hint of trouble, as opposed to rushing an idea through Congress at the last minute, to look like they've got the situation under control. That's the way that chimp President gets what he wants. There is even talk of this fix giving even more power to the executive branch. This is not a good thing, and if it works out like they're speculating, will change the face of capitalism.

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Finally, we have a deployment of troops within the United States. Their mission, according to an article in an Army publication, has a whole lot to do with riot and crowd control. With the way things have been going, this makes me incredibly nervous. Ok, paranoid. I want to know what is going to happen that we don't know about yet that is going to cause a mass riot in the US. Even a few years ago, that would have seemed impossible. Now, I'm not so sure.

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I'm going to go curl up with some pop culture, and hope it all goes away. (Isn't that how we all deal with this?)