Let's take time to heal.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

I have read a lot of threads with immediate answers or crys for solutions.

They will not come tonight. We are, unarguably, wounded and laid low, as much as we don't want to admit it.

I had a sensei. My only real sensei. Toughest man I have ever known. Fought fights I cannot comprehend. He was a teacher as well. Masters+30 in Education. He was in a Donkey Basketball Game. Fell off the beast and hurt his shoulder. It hurt him good, but after the game, he was in the dojo, working that arm hard "To loosen it up".

To make a long story short, he did not loosen it up. He spent a year in various slings, casts and bandages. He just hurt it worse.

We are going to "hurt it worse" too, if we simply flail right now. We don't have the luxury of flailing. Time is too short to 2005(NJ), 2006 and beyond to wasted with flailing, cannibalism and the like. Know that there will be changes: In the country, the Democratic Party and in our lives. We cannot change that, and little can we truly affect that. Change is the natural order of things, especially in the affairs of humankind, and despite the flowery words about participatory democracy, those things are out of our hands, in truth. At least most of the time, except for our great national political spasms.

We will do our ideals no good if we do not address the matter at hand right now: Healing. We have expended untold megawatts of personal energy in this election cycle, and truly, we have little to show for the expenditure than what now seems to me to be fear and loathing. An entirely appropriate response.

So, might I humbly suggest a short time of healing? It both appropriate and wise. With the time spent doing that, will come new opportunities for the wisdom borne of perspective. We need perspective right now and that perspective will lead to healing.

Heal.

"I Still Breathe"- John Carter

[maddezmom]

1. yes, we must

and then all enter the fight with renewed energy and determination. :)

[reeree]

2. I agree

Everyone is saying "We must fight!" Yes, we must, for the next four years... It's good if our anger keeps us from despair but not if it leads us to frustration. I need at least a week to just mull this all over. We'll be back, but not right now.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. To both of you:

You get it.

[ydya]

4. I disagree. I dont want this to heal. That healing talk is just

the politician's way of getting people to eventually fall in line with their loathsome agendae.
Fuck that. I want to remember this pain. Every fucking day.....because it will drive me, and I will drive others, to hold these assholes accountable for every one of their actions.
Remember the pain. It will drive you to force the change and not wait for it. The next time a Repub scandal begins to slide out of the newslight, the pain will drive you to keep calling the presstitutes and kep following it. The next time a condescending repuke talks to you about healing, and "one great beautiful country" and "greatest democracy" the pain will remind you what a loooaaaad of shit that talk is. You know what kind of "greatest democracy" I would like??? One in which mass murderers dont get the key to the White House. One in which every human being's rights are recognized....not just in word, but in deed too. One in which people who think and work and make things are rewarded, and paper-pushing freepers dont skim millions off the top. One in which religion is personal and sacred, not a fucking political tool to enslave the like-minded mentally and the different-minded physically and economically. One in which security and patriotism comes from one's deeds, not from singing God Fucking Bless America at the drop of a fucking hat.
So if you are truly liberal and democratic, do not allow yourself to heal. Carry the pain and forge it into a weapon using the fire raging in your soul.
If you dont have the fire, fuck off. You deserve to be herded like sheep.
So count me out of the healing bullshit. I'll heal when I stop seeing hundreds of thousands of innocents lose their lives to pad the bank accounts of a privileged few. I'll heal when I stop seeing the media being a mouthpiece for the Politbu....I mean....administration. I'll heal when I see a man or woman who is Clark/Dean/Kucinich rolled into one get an 8 year stint as President of the United States of America.

OVER AND OUT.

[Swede Atlanta]

5. NO HEALING

I am not going to butter up to the repukkes. I am unhappy and angry and that is not a good place for me to be. I want to challenge them every day of every week of every month for 4 years. I have de-programmed all channels that broadcast news. I will be taking all my money out of the financial markets and investing it in Canada, away from the reach of U.S. tax authorities.

No, I will not give up as easily as Kerry conceded. He deceived us and for that he too should be held accountable.