Has the stress of what's happening to our country make you cry?

[Javaman]

I find myself sometimes, when I read about the horrible things going on in Iraq and the blatantly selfish, stupid and ignorant things that the republicans do, breaking down from the stress of watching our country be parceled out to corporations, the rich and the destruction of the poor and the needy.

My heart breaks remembering the hope we had just 5 1/2 short years ago. All the great possibilities, all the potential, all the peace, is now all gone. Not to return anytime soon.

I love this country, up until 5 1/2 years ago, I really thought it was the best place to live. Yeah, we had our issues and problems back then but it was still a place of freedom. Now, I no longer believe that.

I think sometimes about when I was a kid and how hopeful I was for the future of our country and how we did some good in the world to help other countries. Yeah, I know naive, but heck I was a kid. However, I never once dreamed that our future as a nation would slide so quickly down hill.

Damn, just 5 1/2 years ago...gone, just like that. That's what makes me cry.

[auntAgonist]

1. yes ....

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[BikeWriter]

2. Yes, and you expressed it well.

:(

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

3. Watching the beginning of F911, when Al Gore, presiding over the

certification of the election results... I bawl like a BABY thinking about it all while I watch that. What could have been... what could have been PREVENTED, the thousands and thousands of lives that could have been spared... yeah...

[scarletlib]

4. yes

so many days I despair for our country and world. i fear for the future of this country and the world. most days i am just so sad. i feel it is wrong to enjoy myself.

[Deja Q]

5. Yes. At work too...

I've felt increasingly diminished and I know of 2 coworkers who have tried to get me into trouble in the past and are again continuing to do so. But I have no solid proof apart from one incident, but that was long ago...

[lpbk2713]

6. Close to it.

But when you know you've been robbed or done wrong you know the thing to do is fight back and get even. Our time will come. Just have patience.

[bamademo]

7. Not any more. I've gotten numb.

Remember that Jackson Brown song, Doctor My Eyes?

Doctor, my eyes have seen the years
And the slow parade of fears without crying
Now I want to understand

I have done all that I could
To see the evil and the good without hiding
You must help me if you can

Doctor, my eyes
Tell me what is wrong
Was I unwise to leave them open for so long

’cause I have wandered through this world
And as each moment has unfurled
I’ve been waiting to awaken from these dreams
People go just where there will
I never noticed them until I got this feeling
That it’s later than it seems

Doctor, my eyes
Tell me what you see
I hear their cries
Just say if it’s too late for me

Doctor, my eyes
Cannot see the sky
Is this the prize for having learned how not to cry

[Maddy McCall]

8. Today. This very morning. The division even in my own family...

saddens the deepest chamber of my heart. I just take my despair and turn it into something constructive, positive.

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

9. We're not doing anything but talking and crying

I'm telling you we could organize something here that would catch on like Cindy has caught on. It seems WilliamPitt holds alot of sway here...maybe he could lead the organization. You'ld really be surprised what we could do. It seems like a pipe dream...many good things seem that way at first...something could be done. The return of our democracy depends on it.

[miss_kitty]

10. No. It pisses me off

because I am old enough to have seen it all before. We thought it couldn't get worse when Kennedy was killed. We thought It couldn't get worse when Johnson escalated the war. We thought It couldn't get worse when Martin Luther King Jr was killed. We thought it couldn't get worse when Nixon got in. We thought CoIntelPro was THE WORST. We thought Reagan was THE WORST. We thought Clinton would save us, but he really didn't.
Then we thought 9/11 was THE WORST. But it wasn't.

It seems we haven't learned how to be better from the bad. We only learn how to be worse.

[deadparrot]

11. I'm not a crier...

but admittedly, after the 2004 election, I was a wreck. It's the only time recently that I've cried over something political. I sobbed hysterically and didn't eat for two and a half days.

[Coventina]

12. I'm way beyond crying for this country, that was so 2000

Now I'm crying for the whole world.

:cry:

[Left_Winger]

13. Yes it does

I have made my contribution to this country and its freedoms (USMC vet) and I work as a public school teacher because I believe in the youth of our country. However, I gave some serious thought to leaving it all behind and emigrating to New Zealand. Why New Zealand? Because it is not only a nuclear-free zone, but it seems so far removed and isolated from the rest of the world; and, what I have read about this country is that they are accepting and tolerant of others. Then I gave it more thought. The fight is here (I'm in SC) and I cannot give up. This is my home too and I'm not giving up without a fight.

:kick:

[El Fuego]

14. Yes

Some things just make me angry, but when I hear and read about the death and destruction in Iraq it makes me cry.

[TroubleMan]

15. No, because our history has always been this way

Slavery

Genocide of Native Americans

Union busting

Jim Crow era

Genocide in the Philippines

All the crap we've done in Latin America - too many to list

What we've done to Haiti. We actually invaded them 1915 and re-instituted slavery, after they had freed themselves and established a parliamentary government. We been screwing them for years, because we don't think "the black people" are fit to govern themselves.

.....

Unfortunately, we have a bad history. Don't get me wrong....we've done a lot of good things, too. However, before we can stop doing these bad things, we have to acknowledge that we've been wrong. If we deny what happened, we'll do it again.

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

16. yes, it has

sometimes, I think I'm too jaded and numb to be affected anymore.
But then, I learn of some new atrocity and the tears return.

[bliss_eternal]

17. Yes, absolutely. I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one...

Sometimes I feel like the biggest baby. I'm surprised my husband hasn't taken to calling me 'waterworks.' It would certainly be appropriate.

Though the occasions are too numerous to list, a few notable occasions where I openly wept...

The day of the boy king's coronation. I even wore black.

On MLK day, knowing that he fought so hard for civil rights, and this admin. is working their asses off to take them all away...

The day the Roberts nomination was announced...(sorry it hit me hard)

Everytime I hear of yet another way some right that people before us fought hard for, is being threatened or even taken away...

:cry:

While I think it is important to stay here and fight, I have to be honest in that I have also contemplated and wondered if I could get dual citizenship w/Canada or something. :think: