Temporary Pity-Party

[LunaC]

We have an Admin that does whatever they want, whenever they want. The law and the Constitution mean nothing to them and they make up the rules as they go. It’s an ever-changing landscape for which there are no road maps, no traffic signals, no sense of order. Just the chaos that accompanies a Fascist dictatorial leadership hellbent on pursuing their own Agenda where We The People are incidental cogs in the machine. Truth, Honor, Integrity, Responsibility, Empathy, Justice and Conscience are forgotten attributes of the past, scoffed at and trodden-upon by those that hold the future in their grasp.

I’ve been remarkably quiet lately because I’m admittedly depressed. Perhaps it’s Scandal Fatigue. Perhaps it’s a temporary feeling of helplessness. Perhaps it’s a sense of foreboding, waiting for the next audacity, the next outrage, the Other Shoe to drop. Something truly wicked this way comes. Perhaps I’m just holding my breath until that time arrives, regrouping, regenerating, conserving my energy until the next phase becomes clearer and I’m stronger to resume the fight once again. For the moment, however….I’m just burned out and bummed out in a very big way!

We now resume our regularly scheduled programming……..

[helderheid]

1. You're not alone. I'm having one of those days too - feeling scared. Maybe

I'll go play some Sims.

[Swamp Rat]

4. I feel MUCH better knowing that Cheney is royally fucked!

:D :rofl: O8)

Did you see this bit from last night's Daily Show? ... funny stuff to lift the spirits. :D

http://www.canofun.com/blog/videos/2006/TheDailyShowCheneyFeb1506.asx

[acmejack]

9. If there is indeed karmic balance in the universe

It shall be with a gigantic glow stick of immense luminescence

[Casandra]

2. In total empathy

Oh I totally agree with what you are say...and feeling.. There are days when so much is going on, I feel overwhelmed with helplessness. I've said for some time, the way to get this to a head..without... our elected representatives (what a joke there) just sitting there being ran over, is for a little revrese psychology. Take a clue from the playbook of the Texas Dems who walked out and stayed out, due to the lack of even being heard. They need to simply 'go home' for an extended vacation and let the Senate's Pugs go on without them. Of course, in the absense of a quarum, there won't be ANTHING passed..(( think). Who knows?.. they will probably re-write the rules in the middle of the night..

Just venting..

[ThomCat]

3. Scandal Fatigue is a very serious situation for all of us.

:grouphug:

It's hard to be optimistic when the bad #$@% keeps piling up.

I hope you hang in there with us. We're all in that same handbasket, and damn it, it's getting warm. But at least we're in it together.

[helderheid]

6. I'm traveling to Europe this spring and I am feeling paranoid about the

trip - I hate to fly anyway but I haven't flown since getting politically involved and I swear my fear of flying has quadrupled thinking of what this administration is capable of :scared:. I hate talking like this but it's how I'm feeling right now. Hell, will I even be allowed on the plane? Am I on some list because I disagree with the administration? eeeeeeeek! I love my country and I fear for her.

edited - CHRIST. Haven't flied? I need a nap.

[az chela]

5. The sad part is all these crimes and no punishment

Who is being held responsible ????All these deaths,destruction of our planet,greed from all the big corporations and the rest of us can only grieve what used to be

[LunaC]

8. That's IT!

It's more than a run-of-the-mill depression...I'm grieving and simultaneously experiencing all the emotions that accompany it. Thanks for helping nail it down.

[acmejack]

7. Look at it this way

You have one of the coolest avatars on this board!

Which is not to make light of the situation we find ourselves in. I find the parallels to another place in another time very disturbing.

[LunaC]

11. LOL!

Thanks, I needed that! Rocket Dog has served me well today.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

10. We're also heading for an anniversary...

of the Iraqi invasion -- that day I was more depressed than I have ever been in my life. Every year since I start to really feel it towards the end of February. The first time it happened I didn't really know what was going on -- I finally made the connection when I went to the one year anniversary march here in SF.

I can feel it creeping up agaan -- it doesn't help to also be reading about things like the NSA spying, GITMO, and see the gallery of the Abu Ghraib pix around the same time.

Sometimes it feels untterly hopeless, like nothing is ever going to change. And sometimes I still feel a glimmer of hope.

Thank the gods for DU, The Daily Show/The Colbert Report, and Celexa. :)

[LiberalAndProud]

12. Your words speak to my heart.

Some words to help fight the hopelessness; I know you've heard them. President Bill Clinton remembering Coretta Scott King:

... We would have all forgiven her, even honored her, if she said, “I have stumbled on enough stony roads. I have been beaten by enough bitter rods. I have endured enough dangers, toils and snares. I’m going home and raise my kids. I wish you all well.” None of us, nobody could have condemned that decision. But instead, she went to Memphis, the scene of the worst nightmare of her life, and led that march for those poor, hard-working garbage workers that her husband died for.
...
The one thing I always admired about Dr. King and about Coretta when I got to know her, especially, is how they embraced causes that were almost surely lost right alongside causes that they knew if they worked at hard enough they could actually win. They understood that the difficulty of success does not relieve one of the obligation to try. So, all of us have to remember that. What are we going to do with the rest of our lives? You want to treat our friend, Coretta, like a role model? Then model her behavior.

Courage, my friend.

[LunaC]

13. Courage

One of my favorite quotes....

Courage is not the absence of fear...it's doing what's right in the presence of fear.

It's not that I'm fearful, it's just that I'm overwhelmingly weary of raging against the machine. I just need a break........

[helderheid]

14. take a break my friend

I need one too. I'll see you back here after a nice rest. :hug: