How do you feel about the political future ?

[kentuck]

[ixion]

1. a strong sense of forboding

like we're careening towards a cliff and the people driving the car don't seem to know, or don't care.

[Kerrytravelers]

2. I have a forbodding feeling. These tea bagger types are getting more violent in their rhetoric.

And that pastor out of Arizona is getting worse and worse.

[cyclezealot]

3. Angry..

Thinking we can reason with the Repukes is absurd. Naive. The Democratic base after the election has been apathetic, letting the leadership carry the full load.. If we can't catch up, we've no one to blame but ourselves. We let the press play patsy with Glenn Beck and the other crazies.. We should have been humiliating them all along- full well knowing they'd be gunning for us.

[Deja Q]

4. Hopeful. I'm spending more time in school and side-projects to try to sell.

Worry is a part of life. Keep it a small part.

[barbtries]

15. that's good advice.

keep on trucking. worry is a curse passed down to me by my mother but one of these days i'll shake it, i swear.

[Ian David]

5. THE CAKE IS A LIE! n/t

[Posteritatis]

20. Actually, that .... pretty much does sum up how I feel about it most days. (nt)

[Ian David]

6. Other: Guarded Optimism while fearful of how turbulent creating change may become. n/t

[bluestateguy]

7. Short term pessimism, long term optimism

The year is 1933.

[kentuck]

8. Interesting responses...

Hmmmm...

[anonymous171]

9. Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better. nt

[Ramulux]

10. Shit sucks, but stay positive

I think the best thing we can do is stay positive, and make sure that the politicians understand that there are people in this country who are not retarded. Honestly, I think people underestimate just how drastically the republican party is losing ground with today's youth. In two years the republicans are going to have a bunch of loses in the house and senate, and then in four years Obama is going to get reelected and they are going to lose more ground. Then they are not going to matter anymore and we can work on fixing the democratic party. We can work on getting out these moderate "blue-dogs" and putting in some real progressives. Liberalism is on the rise in a big way, and a lot of it does have to do with Obama. Among the youth who do not really pay attention to politics and have gotten used to hearing a retarded cowboy speak, Obama is kind of a big deal. Even people who do not really understand what he is saying latch onto him because of his charisma and intelligence. At the least he is getting people involved in the democratic process.

[Chemisse]

18. I like your attitude

Your words are really encouraging.

Welcome to DU, by the way.

[BlooInBloo]

11. Clearly we're doomed.

[dbonds]

12. It can go either way.

We have the momentum now. But they have the media and the crazy. And they will never ever stop fighting. They won't be like we were with bush, they will be nasty. It will get worse before and if it gets better.

[barbtries]

13. foreboding

discouraged. nothing good can come of this sort of thing.

[DerekG]

14. Deeply pessimistic

The Democratic Party will continue to betray its base, and the voters will accommodate them merely because the Republican Party is batshit insane.

[Chemisse]

16. I also have a foreboding feeling (correct spelling of the word, btw)

It seems like we should be optimistic, in spite of Obama's early stumbles. But the way the crazy Pubs have come out and keep clamoring away, and no regular Republicans have refuted their words, well it's just creeping me out. I don't really see quite where it is all headed.

[kentuck]

17. Thank you.

Corrected. (I spelled like a tea-bagger)

[Chemisse]

25. I wasn't trying to be Miss Prissy

But you and the next 2 posts all had various spellings, so I felt compelled. :)

[BlooInBloo]

26. I was holding out for "fourbodding".

[Chemisse]

28. LOL - I posted too soon! - nt

[kentuck]

27. I appreciate that.

I seldom misspell werds. :-)

[Luminous Animal]

19. Foreboding.

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;

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.


- William Butler Yeats

[Chemisse]

29. Yeah, what that guy Yeats said

That described my worries very well.

[jwirr]

21. Foreboding. Global warming, oil depletion, failing economy, hate

on the rise, hugh personal debt, health care uncertainty and all the rest. How can anyone not have a feeling of foreboding?

For many of you God is of no use but I can tell you that when I go to bed at night it is nice to be able to lay these issues on someone else's shoulders so I can sleep. I pick them up again in the morning and do what I can but I would not be able to do that without some good sleep.

[elocs]

22. Foreboding. Heavy on the foreboding with a feeling of impending pessimism clouded by betrayal.

Other than that, I'm good.

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. We are on the edge of an abiss, the one some of us have been speaking off

for years now... and we are over the point of no return.

Just waiting for it to become official and the shooting to start

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

24. About the same as these guys.

"When politics enter . . . government, nothing resulting there from in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible."

"In . . . politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."

"The government of my country snubs honest simplicity, but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two."

"Right here in this heart and home and fountain-head of law, this great factory where are forged those rules that create good order and compel virtue and honesty in the other communities of the land, rascality achieves its highest perfection."

"History has tried to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians.  Now, to go and stick one at the very head of government couldn’t be wise."

Mark Twain


"From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?"

"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."

Thomas Paine

[Speck Tater]

30. Billions will starve due to global climate change

The economy will continue it's slow-motion collapse as the last of the oil runs out. The U.S. will break up into 5 or 6 smaller nations of third world status, each run by a petty war lord. 70% to 80% of the U.S. population will starve to death or die of mad cow disease or some new flu. Technology will revert to the 18th to 19th century level.

Other than that I'm very optimistic.