Which stage are you at?

[XemaSab]

:shrug:

I've been in depression for a while now. :(

[RandomThoughts]

1. Have heard that before.

There are some that say 'life' is like accepting grief.

So they would say me not accepting some situation some other person thinks I should be in, a statement they can not defend, would be part of grief where I am in some non accepting stage.

Guess what, my life is not grief! Nor is existence despair.

So you see where that concept comes from :)

That same thing has been said many times before, it only applies if your life is grief.

[Joe Bacon]

2. None of them.

I'm ready to support a primary challenge, just like I did in 1978. Enough is enough!

[chimpymustgo]

17. Have accepted. Still mad as hell. Primary challenge is out only option.

[Vinca]

3. Anger . . . and I'm happy to feel it. Over the last 6 months or so

I've been incredibly depressed about everything. The dark cloud has finally lifted and I'm gleefully pissed off again.

[Xipe Totec]

4. What's acceptance?

I'm still waiting to settle scores from 40 years ago.

Some day...

[xchrom]

5. Acceptance.

I think that one could build a good case that the powerful
In the democratic party are neo-liberals and are
Governing based on those ideas.

[merbex]

6. Anger, Depression, and Acceptance at the same time

I am motivated to get other Democrats to see that we do not have to accept this place we find ourselves

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

7. anger at myself

for believing and angry at myself for wasting my time working for him

[dmosh42]

8. Remember "Taxation without representation"? n/t

[Recursion]

18. Remember?

Check out my avatar...

[XemaSab]

9. And I'll just count every unrec as a vote for denial

:P

[Lucinda]

16. LOL

:toast:

[jefferson_dem]

25. Denial of misdirected anger and gloomy, often unfounded, cynicism

Sure. Count me in on that. :)

[polichick]

10. Well, I suspect the ones in denial will deny it. :)

[polichick]

11. Get to acceptance asap - it frees up the energy so you can refocus. nt

[MannyGoldstein]

12. Acceptance and Anger

I've accepted that Obama was bad news for almost two years, since he outsourced governing to the same DLC crowd that performed brutal economic sodomy against working Americans last time.

But hell no, I'm not accepting our demise. We need to get rid of the swine once and for all. Pelosi is our most important ally in stopping these scoundrels.

[Mimosa]

14. ^ "brutal economic sodomy against working Americans " ^ True, sad but funny, Manny.

I'm still in anger over the sham 'hope and change' I literally bought into.

Acceptance I find too close to capitulation.

[harun]

13. Acceptance, this is the way it is, how do I survive it?

[polichick]

21. Be grateful that you're awake and put your energy into...

...celebrating what's good in life, and contributing to some cause you believe in - even if it's handing out food at the food bank rather than actively participating in politics.

We're all in the same boat - best of luck!

[Doctor_J]

28. Sounds like "Good German" mindset

:scared:

[polichick]

29. In what way? nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

15. I'll go with acceptance. nt

[Beacool]

19. The same that I felt since June 2008:

Seething anger.

:-(

[jefferson_dem]

23. Aw...

Here ---> :hug:

Better?

[Beacool]

30. Thank you!!!

:hug:

[AndrewP]

24. +1

I've actually entered the realm of acceptance now, but I was there for a long time.

[Beacool]

31. Oh, I accept it.

It is what it is, but it doesn't mean that I have to like it.

:(

[AndrewP]

35. Well put. It is what it is

:-(

[TriMera]

20. Getting angrier by the day. n/t

[jefferson_dem]

22. Thrilled.

:party:

[Bluenorthwest]

26. Got to be more specific...

I am not so attached to the political process in that way. It seems about the same to me, which is fucked up. It is what the military so poetically calls 'snafu' situation normal, all fucked up.
Last time I did the stages about politics was 1968. I lost a bet with my Aunt. And that leads to more poetry from odd quarters. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, won't get fooled again.
I hope that suffices.

[Teaser]

27. how about "Don't fucking care?"

what nonsense. This administration is not my fucking therapy session.

[great white snark]

32. Sorry. Can you hold up for six more years of President Obama?

I'm satisfied myself but you didn't include any positive responses in your poll.

[saras]

33. Then what?

I got to acceptance back in the seventies, when I was a teenager. I processed the grief I felt about American politics being profoundly corrupt and probably unrepairable since the invention of corporate personhood and the rise of the multinational.

I still have a life to life.. is there a blueprint for how long-term action works after that?

By that logic, the process of dealing with the existence of black slavery in America would have stopped with acceptance. Where's the hundred-year plan for freedom?

[BklnDem75]

34. Option 6

Boredom. This gets really old.

[Uzybone]

36. more navel gazing from "liberals"

Thank god for the few serious people we have in our movement.

Why is the RW always fired up while liberals are mumbling and grumbling? Why is that?

[dorkulon]

37. Because they KNEW they were voting for corporate whores.

Apparently, some of us didn't.

[Raine]

39. Because people on "our side" are always telling

us to shut up and just take our screwing and be glad that one of our own is doing it to us! :mad:

[Raine]

38. Angry that I've been screwed over but acceptance

that it's happened with no hope that anything is ever going to make it different or better. x(