level of anger

Hi Jb. There does seem to be a lot of passion, anger, and "mud slinging" involved in US politics. I live here in the US and wonder to which situation you might be referring in particular. The "parites" feud so often over almost everything, and this is fed by the media, a couple of conservative radio talk-show hosts, in particular. Kudos, though, to President Obama for being gracious and cool-headed under pressure! Karen

Well basically after 8 yrs. of a pres. that could do what he wanted, with a congress that could do what they wanted with no threat of a veto, kind of a free for all, the country went to the shambled state it's in now! After a major bale out of their political base, they need to vent! It's kind of like your fotbal! when the other team wins the match and the losers go out and burn cars and other civil unrest. But we have 8 years to get the country back in shape like it was when they took the ball! I remember a balanced budget and a prosperous country, and hell 9 years ago I had health care! Wow! Then may be they will get the ball back again and get the rich, richer, start all over screwing the little guy again and the vicious cycle will start all over again! It won't achieve anything but bring the country down to a lower low than it already is, and then they can blame that on the current team with the ball! You gotta luv it!!!! tdemex

Well I get angry when I feel my rights are being taken away or when politicians aren't listening to and don't care about their constituents. This nation was formed by people who believed politicians were servants of their constituents and that it was their duty to represent them appropriately. Now we are seeing such politicians as a dying, and nearly non-existent breed. Politicians and presidents are not our rulers, they are our servants. On forums such as these much of my anger comes from the lies and misinformation being spread as well as the hypocrisy from people who now blindly support the things they so vehemently opposed for the last 8 years based solely on the change of a letter from R to D.

It stems from the basic realization that there is so much at stake. These are monumentaly important and nation altering issues. Such issues are always going to stir great passion. We have Bush to thank for igniting the fuse. He was enough to make a lot of people wake up to the genuine direction the country and our government was taking. He alone is responsable for many people "waking" up to the totalitarin ideals taking hold in our system. My frustration and anger stems from that usurping of our founders' creation. It also stems from people not realizing that it didn't end when Bush left office and that people who were so willing, and rightly so, to scream and rage against some very blatent unconstitutional and statist actions and policies, are now quietly complacent about said same actions with this administration and other similar polices and ideologies. It is as if suddenly all unconstitutional action stopped when Bush left office. Come on folks, you can't honestly look in a mirror and say this can you? Or even worse, say that it doesn't matter because there are some things you like with this administration? Does that really excuse the Bush like actions that still go on even as I write this?

Yep. We are passionate about our politics. But also it is made worse by the economic crisis. People are mad and upset about the state of the country and they have little faith that our elected officials are doing the right thing to fix it. I think the anger will get worse before it gets better.