Anybody else feel like the center is not holding?

[Solomon]

That we are turning and turning in the widening gyre? The falcon cannot hear the falconer; things are falling apart; the center cannot hold...

I can't take much more. The "exonerations" of Flynn, Trump, etc..., the attempted demonization of Rice, Biden, Obama...

100,000 dead and growing that could have been and should have been avoided...

It's almost unbearable. I don't know how much more I can take. I really don't.

[leftieNanner]

1. I know what you mean

My fingers are worn down from clinging to the edge of the cliff.

I can't even conceive what I would do if Ass Face "wins" in November.

I'm glad we have our community here at DU to support each other.

Try to hang in there, Solomon.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. It is what putin and bannon want us to feel, but I feel it too...the real problem comes when

they prevent blue states from being bailed out and

ALL police and ALL fire-persons and ALL teachers are gone...violence will be everywhere

JUST what putin wants

[Tipperary]

3. Bad times.

No doubt.

[Moostache]

4. I am feeling it everyday...

One day at a time my friend, that is the best I think we can due for now.

[Cosmocat]

5. This country broke a long time ago

Otherwise a complete sociopath would never have been nominated much less elected POTUS.

[Nikki28]

6. ita

this is what I feel too. Many days I just shut off the news and read my bible to get my mind off this evil era.

[lunasun]

7. Not exactly , but I'm extremely pissed

Anger can be unraveling also so I don’t like this feeling I have either, but not the same as yours maybe.
I’m trying to not let it get to me but hard to do, isn’t it?
Yes it really sucks but we have to hang in there together
If a pendulum swings the other way for us, I hope the momentum from all this bad swings the other way to a multitude of good for us.

[Solomon]

10. I need to turn the tv off but I just can't. It's hard for me to sleep. I can't concentrate much.

I stay outraged. Not so much because of Trump. But because it feels like our system is not able to handle it. In the beginning we were consoling ourselves with the idea that our vaunted system of institutions, democracy and justice was going to prevail in the end. It feels like all of us are just watching a train wreck and nothing is going to done about it.

The only thing that gives me a glimmer of hope is that Yeats' poem must have been penned during a time that also seemed utterly hopeless. Yet somehow we came out of it.

[elleng]

8. Yes.

[jimlup]

9. Hang in there! I know ultimately we will win but ...

the evil in our country is quite strong and will not fall willingly. Things may yet get worse before they get better.

[dixiechiken1]

11. Yup...

I feel the same way. Every GD day.

*sigh*

[Baitball Blogger]

12. White conservative privilege is out in the open.

There will be a tipping point. We just have to hold on.

[alwaysinasnit]

13. I think you speak for many of us. I know about the compulsion to try to keep up with the news, but

since most of it is bad, we're left wondering "why do I do this to myself." I have to make sure I do something totally mindless every day in order to keep what few marbles I have left. And the fact that we have to isolate ourselves as much as possible is making things worse.

[stillcool]

14. I have to look away...

no cable news at all, and I'm trying to limit my time on the net, and force myself to do other things. Life is very effing weird, no matter how you look at it, but it's all in the way you look at it.

[MasonDreams]

15. Yes, from T S Eliot's poem The Second Coming

How can we talk about the centre not holding here? Here in the centre that is.

Reminds me of a Yogi Berra "When you come to a fork in the road, take it!"

Anybody still sitting on the fence? Repent!

[Solomon]

16. I thought it was Yeats.

More:

"Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

[MasonDreams]

18. Apologies, of course it's Yates.

[leighbythesea2]

17. I bought

Joan Didion Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Because I have been thinking of Yeats. And it reminded me i wanted to read it.
I'm wondering how the 60s felt. It was tumultuous. Dan Rather says there's been mant times that felt hopeless, but don't lose hope.
Also
My daughter is a poet and wrote a Yeats version November 2016.
Will try to find.