What goes on?

I am new to this blogging thing, but I have been so upset lately with the political, economical and foreign affairs events that I really need to express it. I was a teenager duringcannot the Vietnam, LBJ, Tricky Dicky, Kent State, the Democratic covention in 1968, Cambodia, you get the picture. What I learned is that you cannot trust one single person in our government to be honest with you unless it suits their purpose. I have not believed that anyone could change things by working within the system, that it would take someone determined to fight for the people, and it would be a long fight.
The past eight years have been hell and I believe that Dubya has made us less safe because of his stupid actions and total ignorance of foreign policy. I think Bin Laden took down the Towers because the actions of the US overseas have been hellish. No, I don't think it was right, and it was a terrible thing, but I doubt it would have happened if the US wasn't so complacent about the suffering WE caused in the mideast!
Then this election year I really listened to John Edwards came to believe that he was the person who would and could stand up for us and fight. And what happened? The corporate media effectively made the Dems primary race a two person contest, because they almost NEVER mentioned Edwards, even when he was tied with Hillary for second in Iowa! Barack and Hillary is all we ever heard. The corporate giants that JRE would have been fighting are the very ones who made sure he was never mentioned. What a surprise! We don't have a democracy, my fellow Americans, because the corporate machine decides who will run for us. I had hope for America again for a few short months but they were quickly dashed. DO YOU NOT ALL SEE THAT WE ARE BEING SCREWED? It's so impossibly hard to get your hopes raised and then have to accept all over again that the status quo shows no signs of changing it's ways. I guess we are all "collateral damage."
Sharon