For the first time I can remember I woke up profoundly afraid of the future.

[dutch508]

Star Member leftyladyfrommo (13,554 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213904010

It's my 72nd birthday. For the first time I can
remember I woke up profoundly afraid of the future.

Being in lockdown for 6 months probably hasn't helped. But the assault on the USPS has sent me over the edge.

I lived through the red scare and the Commies are everywhere. I saw bomb shelters. I hid under my desk. I had nightmares of bombs falling for years. I wore dog tags.

I walked to school the morning of the Cuban missle crisis wondering if there would be a world to walk home to.
I grieved when the Kennedys were assassinated.


I lived through the violent turmoil of the 60's. The Weather Underground. The Black Panthers. Angela Davis.

I have made it through stock market crashes and recessions that wiped out my savings.

I have never been as disturbed as I am now with this attack against our country from the inside. From American citizens. The dismantling of the USPS sent me over the edge.

I wake up and everything looks the same. The same neighbors, the same stores, the same streets.

But nothing is the same for me.

All that shit was the left.

This is the same shit.

Leftists trying to destroy the country.

Star Member samnsara (12,153 posts)

1. Happy Birthday..my 70th is the 18th. Its a hard one. I told hubby to go to work as we dont have anything or anyway to celebrate. We went on an Alaska cruise for my 60th...I got a tattoo on my 50th. No body else gets to celebrate anything so its a nice way to just let the day go by unnoticed.

 

Star Member enough (11,762 posts)

7. I'm 76. You have expressed exactly how I feel.

After everything we’ve seen and experienced over the decades, the blatant overt attack on the Post Office, right before an election in a pandemic, feels ominous in a new way.

Here’s to your very happy 73rd birthday next year!

 

Star Member LiberalLoner (7,423 posts)

10. Happy birthday!

And I’m younger than you are but every bit as scared.

One thing that gives me comfort is, the military seems to be on the side of the people and not the dictator and that might just save us.

 

Star Member Grammy23 (5,151 posts)

12. Happy Birthday!


My 72nd is in Nov so you and I have a lot of shared history. We’ve been alive long enough to have seen many changes and trends that are disturbing — to say the least. My natural inclination is to be optimistic. I have a friend who tells me all the time I am the original happy camper. In this situation we find ourselves in now, I have tried to maintain the attitude (after the initial shock of tRump’s election) that Congress would save us. The Courts would save us. The TRUTH would save us. Something would stop the madness.

Alas, I’ve come to realize that no one is coming in to rescue us. My husband and I discuss and argue about this nearly every day because he is pessimistic about the situation. His most frequent comment to me is, “It’s over. You just need to accept it.” I usually reply, “Are you just giving up?? No fight? No pushback?”

So while we agree on what a terrible situation we’re in, our attitude about the future and any solution is going in opposite directions. I still think we can vote him out and then prosecute him (and everyone who participated in this debacle.) I’m already thinking how I’ll get my ballot in even if the USPS is dismantled. (Fed Ex, hand delivered, etc) My dear husband is very gloomy about it all and sees no way out.

So it is a terrible time for all of us — those who are optimistic and those who are inclined to be pessimistic. I still believe we need to be the change we hope to see. I sincerely hope we can organize and put our best efforts together to defeat this monster and his minions.

Oh, and again....try to have a Happy Birthday!

 

Star Member Freedomofspeech (2,926 posts)

13. My 72nd birthday was in June...

I of course lived through all the same things as you and I lost a brother to Vietnam. I have never been so terrified and this Post Office thing is surreal. Our lives and those of our children and grandchildren have been robbed from us because of the monsters in this administration.
We have to believe that we will survive this. Do your best to enjoy your birthday and read that Gandhi quote again. Love and peace to you, Fellow Traveler.

 

commie ****.

Star Member Croney (2,540 posts)

16. Happy Birthday! I'm 75 and finding that the secret to happiness is decluttering. Above all, sweeping the roaches out of the White House. You and I will be instrumental in saving the world. You are a hero! Have a wonderful day!

 

mitch96 (5,462 posts)

18. A co inkydink....I'm 71 today too!! Aug 14 nt

Star Member leftyladyfrommo (13,554 posts)

20. Thanks, guys.

I bought a monthly ticket to the car wash. That way if I get really bored or depressed I can drive down to the car wash and go through. Desperate times call for desparate measures.

I need to go to Walmart. That will be good for an hour.

And the weather is great today .

Happy birthday to me.

 

[USA4ME]

With all these older primitives inching closer to death, it’s a reminder that we only have a few more years of their life to point and laugh in their face at how stupid they are.

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[67 Rover]

Star Member samnsara (12,153 posts)

1. Happy Birthday..my 70th is the 18th. Its a hard one. I told hubby to go to work as we dont have anything or anyway to celebrate. We went on an Alaska cruise for my 60th...I got a tattoo on my 50th. No body else gets to celebrate anything so its a nice way to just let the day go by unnoticed.

Let me guess. A butterfly on the small of your back? Shudder.

[67 Rover]

Star Member leftyladyfrommo (13,554 posts)

20. Thanks, guys.

I bought a monthly ticket to the car wash. That way if I get really bored or depressed I can drive down to the car wash and go through. Desperate times call for desparate measures.

I need to go to Walmart. That will be good for an hour.

And the weather is great today .

Happy birthday to me.

Can go to Walmart but can't go out to vote. 

[landofconfusion80]

Let me guess. A butterfly on the small of your back? Shudder.

I hope Earl charged them triple for the joy of drawing it on

[DLR Pyro]

Can go to Walmart but can't go out to vote. 

exactly, or can go out to "protest" but can't go out to vote

[DumbAss Tanker]

Pretty sure she said that all the way through every previous Republican administration from the Nixon Administration onward.

[thundley4]

But the assault on the USPS has sent me over the edge.

At no point in history has the USPS been more irrelevant than it is now.

Democrats only want it funded to help them cheat this election. They want mail-in voting in every state to outright steal the election from President Trump.

However, they desperately need mail-in voting in the blue states that Joe "The Ra_pist" Biden win, too.

Their plan when President Trump wins the electoral college again, they plan on fomenting more riots and even more violence by having Joe "The Ra_ist" Biden win the popular vote by even more than Hillary did.