Running In Place

The last couple of weeks, I’ve been revamping my website, tweaking things here and there, and most recently I’ve been going through and adding technorati tags, which interestingly enough has given me an interesting look back through the way back machine.

It’s kind of a weird deja vu, kind of a “haven’t I seen this tree before”?

What I’ve come to realize is that a year ago we, meaning bloggers, Democrats, Republicans, this country, etc., were all doing pretty much all of this same bullshit but in last year’s fashions and with last year’s technology.

Basically the White House and Bush were doing whatever the heck they wanted and refusing to explain anything or even offer an excuse. They were pretty much thumbing their nose at Congress and the judicial system too. Go ahead and check the news records for back then, I can wait if you want.
The Republicans were still cow-towing to whatever Bush and his cronies wanted, marching instep and voting the party line whether or not it was good for the Average Joe or not. They were still claiming that anyone who didn’t agree with them was unpatriotic and helping the terrorists.

The Democrats were still pointing figures and, yet, still managing to sit on their hands and doing nothing. They were all talk and no real action even back then.

And liberal bloggers were bipolarly flipping back and forth between extreme excitement every time something “new” would come to “light” that should damage the administration and extreme disappointment when no one did anything with the new information. (Hey, I was right there with you!)

And conservative bloggers were preening and attacking and trolling and acting like thugs and bullies for the most part.

What I realized is that nothing has changed and a year from now nothing will have changed even after the 2006 elections.

Unless.

Unless someone does something other than whine and complain and point figures and circulate all this negativity. Actually, it needs to be a whole lot of someones…and they need to be doing more than blogging too.

You can’t expect a change if you keep doing what you’ve always done. That’s just crazy.

tags: 2006 election, politics, blogs

One comment

1. on March 18, 2006 at 1:54 am

   Omni said:

   Be of good cheer
   And drink some green beer
   St. Patrick’s Day is here!!

   xoxoxooxox

   Omni the Poet

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