Are you sufficiently depressed?

[kentuck]

How are you feeling about the future of America?

[county worker]

1. Heres a funny feeling I am getting. It could be that what is happening in the state governments

is the catalyst to energize people to stand up to the repugs. We outnumber the tea buggers 3 to one but we don't make any noise like they do. Maybe the rupugs are doing us a favor.

[InvisibleTouch]

2. An odd combination of 1 and 2. n/t

[elocs]

3. Pessimistic. The right will not go gently into that good night. There will be trouble.

Democrats have already proven that when they have power they are incapable of advancing a Democratic agenda without extensive concessions and bipartisanship with the right. The American empire is coming apart and I'm afraid the sun will be setting upon it and few other countries is the world will weep at its diminishing.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

4. I'm thrilled about what's going on in Wisconsin...

...but on a macro scale, the status quo is too powerful, dumb America is too scared and gullible, and Dems are ineffective.

Doomed.


Related. I'm single, mid-40s, but I have friends with kids younger than 10 y/o. They are optimistic, and I can't help but think that there's some cognitive dissonance going on. To drive the point home, I have a buddy who shared my beliefs when we met in 2002, and we'd grown close over the years mostly because we share very liberal views and liked to discuss current events. He got married last year to a single mom with an 8 y/o. She's liberal but she's also very optimistic. She's built a cocoon it seems to me. He tells me he doesn't know what's going on in the real world, and talking to his wife about current events only upsets her.

I think parents are inherently more optimistic than single people.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. hoping for the best

preparing for the worst

sn

[w8liftinglady]

6. EVERY patient I have had has been in dire straits....

I'm talking one check away from homelessness,folks.

The food banks and free medicine resources are exhausted.

And Texas is one step away from making it required to have/view sonogram before a pregnancy termination...

...and texas wants to cut school funding,medicaid,housing help...

...and Texas leads in uninsured and minimum wage...


see why I'm just a smidge pessimistic?

[Boojatta]

7. .

:kick:

[Raine]

8. Very, very pessimistic

the corporatist have taken over both parties which means they control the country. :-(

[starroute]

9. Battering down the hatches and hoping to ride out the storm

I really don't know how all this will end. I know there will be rough times ahead. I know that if the US doesn't survive intact, others will be there to carry on. But mostly I'm just hoping that the people I love will make it through.

[TheKentuckian]

10. Dicey at best on the high side, jaw droppingly awful on the low end.

Lots of crappy in the middle.

[karynnj]

11. Aprehensive

There are so many foreign policy things that could all explode at any moment - and domestically, the Republicans may just be crazy enough to threaten a real shutdown - that in economically fragile times could be devastating - if every Democratic program is not sacrificed to some degree.

It seems that because we want to build - we need big margins in both Houses and the Presidency - as they want to stop things or end them - and seem not to care about the consequences - they need only the Presidency, at least 41 lock step Republicans or the House. That conclusion IS depressing.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

12. How I feel about the future of America mirrors how I

feel about my personal life. Over 50, unemployed for the first time, for over a year. Getting interviews, but no job ("We are just calling to let you know you were our second choice. Good luck in your search").

In other words, very very fearful.

[bvar22]

13. I watched "The Prophets of Doom" History Channel Special yesterday.

1)It is only a matter of time before somebody detonates a Nuke (or several) in a major American City (or several). This will probably happen sooner rather than later.

2)There is a MAJOR Clean Water Crisis TODAY in America that almost nobody is talking about.
Most rivers and lakes in our nation are already placarded against the eating of fish caught in our waters.
In Minnesota (Land of 10,000 lakes) it is recommended that health adults eat no more than one fish per month, and NONE for children and pregnant women.

Most water purification plants for urban/suburban areas do NOT test for most toxins and chemical pollutants, including pharmaceuticals (anti-biotics, steroids, hormones), and these chemicals are on the rise in most drinking water.

90% of the area west of the Mississippi River are facing, or will shortly be facing, severe water shortages for the foreseeable future.

3) Peak Oil...the summary is that if you live in the auto-dependent suburbs, Get Out Now.

4) The Corporate Food Manufacturing and Delivery System in the USA is dependent on OIL.
SEE: Peak Oil

5)The Economy is a House of Cards built on Foreign Debt and Bailouts.
The collapse is imminent and unavoidable. It will be quick and ruthless.

"The consensus of the panel from the History Channel’s ‘Prophets of Doom’ was that we are facing many serious issue all at once. Individually, any of them could cause a collapse of civilization. The ensemble of Michael Ruppert, Nathan Hagen, John Cronin, James Howard Kunstler, Professor Hugo De Garis and Robert Gleason, all paint a dire picture. But they do offer some ideas for softening the perils. At the heart of it is decentralization. Localizing food production and water purification would go a long way to saving lives. Large institutions are the most vulnerable in their Apocalyptic scenarios. But they advocate cooperation, not the isolation of running for the hills or crawling inside a bunker

http://law.rightpundits.com/?p=2706

Don't Worry.
Be Happy.
:)

[NC_Nurse]

16. I'm with you. Between peak oil and climate change and the massive shift of

Wealth to the top 1%...I think things are going to get very interesting in the near future.

We are using up resources and defiling the planet so quickly...it's hard to know which scenario will cause the crash. But it's coming.

[H2O Man]

14. "Other"

I do not do "depressed." I try to be realistic.

We are clearly at a crossroads. There is a significant movement towards a dead-end. But there is still an opportunity to change directions.

[sufrommich]

15. I'm optimistic. I think the GOP has no choice but to ramp up the crazy

and I think it will backfire on them. I'm also optimistic that the unemployment rate will continue to drop.

[KoKo]

17. I'm not depressed at all....I'm catatonic...steaming "Rosemary" for Remembrance.....

:eyes: :crazy:

The Parsley and Sage are in the SOUP..AROMATICS to SOOTH THE SENSES.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYQaD2CAi9A