Is anyone else suffering from liberal outrage fatigue?

[Borgnine]

I'm tired. The only way I can get through the next four years is becoming slightly apathetic towards the damage Bush is doing. As far as being mad, I just can't be surprised by anything they do anymore. They could proclaim tomorrow that all liberals, minorities, and GLBT citizens will be shipped off to concentration camps, and I'd just shrug it off. Their evilness has worn me out. I think that's why I'm spending more and more time in the Lounge... I see all of these Gannon threads, and I wonder what good it will do. Nothing short of military action from other nations will stop these people, because they control the media and the voting machines. I feel like we're just along for the ride, even if I have a glint of optimism about Howard Dean heading the party.

So very, very tired.

[murielm99]

1. That's what they want. Don't let them wear you down.

Find some way to recharge, and come back out fighting.

[Borgnine]

4. Oh, I will.

This is just the post-election doldrums right now. I'll be better around midterms. Hopefully.

[LosinIt]

2. I cycle through both outrage and fatigue

it seems to be the only way I can function. I try to stay cool and then they pull yet one more evil deed and I get all riled again.

I am just finishing Bill Clinton's book. I had to put it down for awhile because I was so furious reading about all of the great things that his administration did for this country and realizing that most of it has been torn down.

I think it's the cognitive dissonance. I know that everything is wrong in this country, but the rest of the herd keeps on acting like everything is just normal. It freaks me the fuck out.

[Borgnine]

3. Exactly.

Now I know how those crazy New World Order U.N.-fearing conservatives feel, except their fears are delusional while ours are clearly happening before our eyes.

[Richard Steele]

5. Yes, me too. (it comes and goes)

I rely on my neighbor for my optimism, althoug it is DARK optimism at best.

He's a native of Africa, and he's seen MUCH worse political/social crap than I ever will.
And he always reassures me that he has seen this kind of thing before, and that ShrubCo is following an old, old pattern.

They are DRUNK on their own power, and have gone well past the point when they SHOULD have stopped and consolidated their gains.
They are gonna keep living in their dreamworld until the backlash comes; they won't hear the train until it's six feet away.

And the national collapse is gonna be hard; brutal....but it's gonna be a chance to rebuild all the WRONG things and make them right.

Like I said, DARK optimism.

But my grandparents survived the Depression, and my Sweetie's people escaped the goddamn NAZIS, fer Chrissakes...

So, I figure that rebuilding the USA after B*sh won't seem like such a big deal to historians in 2 or 3 hundred years.

[punpirate]

8. I think it's all part of the plan...

... what was "Shock and Awe," but Blitzkrieg? They're working the same way domestically and legislatively, and there are a lot of them, going just as fast as they can. That's bound to wear the opposition down, and I think they're tactics are intended to do that.

The only way to survive that is to husband one's resources and pace one's self.

[Richard Steele]

10. YUP, history is repeating.

And just like the Nazis, they are overextending themselves...

Their military is writing checks that their industrial base can't cash...

And their ARROGANCE is turning allies and neutral nations into MOTIVATED OPPONENTS.

I agree, PunPirate: husband our resources, and PACE ourselves.
The CRASH is already determined; it's the REBUILDING which remains to be decided.

[Pooka Fey]

6. Outrage and Fatigue over here too.

I feel almost completely powerless - but then I look at the Ohio recount that the Greens got to happen because everybody pitched in to fund it, and how everybody contacted Barbara Boxer and she stood with the CBC and challenged the repugs on Jan. 6th. And the bloggers have forced this Gannongate fiasco into the M$M.

The only thing that keeps me going is that I don't want future generations of Americans or other citizens of the earth to look at us and say, "Wow, they saw what was happening with the fascist NEO-CON takeover of America, and THEY DID NOTHING to stop it." I don't want to look at myself and know that that's true, either. Sometimes fighting is more important than winning. I say, give 'em a few bumps on the road to hell, at the very least.

[Skittles]

7. let DU be a record that we fought it from the beginning

some of us saw through these fascist necons when they were grooming that incompetent piece of shit bush to be GOVERNOR

[Allenberg]

9. I'm a happily married man,

but Howard Dean was one good looking guy in his youth.