You know, I kinda think everything will be ok.

[Skip Intro]

I'd just like everyone to take a deep breath and relax for a minute.

Nothing happens in DC quickly. I look at domestic policy from DC as akin to nudging a rock on a desert floor an inch to the left or right. Dems will not end wars, secure SS or Medicare for generations, nor will repubs do the opposite in short order.

I've lived for a few years now. I've heard over and over that we were on the verge of the worst thing imaginable. It's never turned out to be true.

And I just find it harder and harder to get riled up about how we're on the edge of doom.

Indeed, I kinda think a lot of what we hear from the left and right is an overblown dramatic bs spectacle built upon a skewed version of some twisted truth.

Bla bla bla...

What I know is, based on a lifetime of experience, that the end is not nigh.

I find myself more and more detached from the drama.

I certainly hope there will never be a president Perry. I'm sick to my stomach even typing it. And I hope, really hope, Dems control the House (which I think they will) and the Senate (which I'm not so sure of) - but in any event, we will survive.

And that's why, you see, even though I am wanting a full Dem slate, I'm just not into the world's gonna end stuff if it doesn't happen. Been here before. And again, I think everything will be ok.

At the very least, I think it would be helpful if the most doubtful and worried amongst us would take a deep breath and step outside the political box for a few.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I like your take on this, my dear Skip Intro...

I think we do tend to hyperventilate sometimes.

You've shown us the way out...

I'm grateful.

Thank you!

BTW, the word you want is nigh, not neigh...

Recommended.

[Skip Intro]

4. Thanks

corrected the misspelling. thanks.

Both sides seem to work themselves into a fevered pitch regularly just based on snippets of reality.

I kinda have gone past that now. Past the scare tactics.

You know? The world is not going to end tomorrow. Take a deep breath. Relax. Think.

[barbtries]

2. outrage overload.

your post reminds me of a joke my son (i think he was 11 at the time) told me. If Bush, Perot and Clinton are all on the same jet and it crashes, who will survive??? and the answer was...the country.
i'm working on gaining a sense of peace. and plan to work for the democrats as the election draws nigh.

[AndyTiedye]

3. President Perry (or Bachmann or Palin) Would NOT be Survivable

Particularly not for those of us who cannot or will not convincingly imitate bible-thumping xtians.
Our country would be permanently transformed into a hard theocracy.

If any of them win I'm getting outta Dodge while I can.

[pacalo]

5. It really does help to step away from the nuts & bolts of politics periodically.

That's a very wise post, Skip Intro.

[Kalidurga]

6. I think we will survive even if Republicans aren't booted out...

but we will be a lot less than we could be. Just a few years ago racist were in the closet where they should be, but now they are emboldened. Teachers were respected, first responders probably never thought they would have to fight to get medical treatment, and our seniors didn't have a significant portion of their income on the chopping block. So, yes we will probably survive, but I doubt the losses will be small and there will be thousands of stories of people left behind by our system that never get told.

[mfcorey1]

7. *1000