When did you reach your breaking point

[Carl]

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hyphenate  (1000+ posts)         Sat Mar-29-08 12:42 PM
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When did you reach your breaking point   
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with this administration?

It's now at the chronic stress stage, where all the bullshit just doesn't phase me anymore. Once you've reached a breaking point, anything piled on just doesn't have the same impact anymore. You're numb, in shock, and just completely overwhelmed to the point where you say things like "I don't care anymore," "So what else is new?" and other similar things.

The culmination off all the horror for me happened even before the 2000 election. I spent the last two years of Clinton's administration looking at the horror and disbelief of congress in their witchhunt of Clinton. Partisan politics was only the foundation for my stunned reaction: it's difficult to give a congress any credibility if they spend so much time, energy and money to go after someone like they did Clinton.

And then the election, and I went to bed the night of the election believing Gore had won, and it was the last night I slept soundly for many years to come. I remember James Baker going into Florida and acting like a big bully, and I recall that GWB was already starting to select his "cabinet members" and I went into overload. He was so smug, so arrogant and so unbelievably evil, even then, that I hated him right from the beginning.

I remember joining a Yahoo group, called the "Ihategeorgebushfanclub." And that was before DU was here, and there were few bastions of safety for Dems and liberals.

A lot has changed since then, slightly over 7 years ago. While the "neighborhood" isn't completely cohesive, there is now sanctuary for many of us which is good. It's easier to deal with the outrage.

But the question still remains: when did you reach your limit on outrage, and how has continued barraging of same affect you now?

This is a perfect arguement against socialized healthcare.
Here is a person that would be in a docs office everyday on our dime when all they need to do is grow the eff up.....

and there are many more.

acmavm  (1000+ posts)        Sat Mar-29-08 12:53 PM
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3. November 19, 2000 - Their 1st OPEN move to destroy our country
   The Brooks Brothers riot was a demonstration by Republican congressional staffers outside a meeting of election canvassers in Miami, Florida on November 19, 2000, organized for the purpose of bringing about the cancellation of a hand recount in which 10,750 ballots remain uncounted in the recount of the 2000 United States presidential election. The name refers to a traditional brand of suits associated with conservative business attire like that of the protesters.<1> The crowd was reported to have been directed by Congressman John E. Sweeney,<2> a Republican from New York.

This political act was orchestrated by the RNC as many of the rioters were flown in to participate. Many of the participants have gone on to pursue lucrative careers through political appointments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot

Never hear a DUmmy talk about having a protest huh.
John Sweeny was my Congressman btw.

magellan  (1000+ posts)        Sat Mar-29-08 12:57 PM
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5. 2004 GE whitewashed election fraud
   Since then I've only become more and more cynical of the entire government. Nothing changes for the better of the country no matter what we do or who's in charge.

Or maybe it is because you are a 

mohinoaklawnillinois  (1000+ posts)         Sat Mar-29-08 01:13 PM
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9. I'm like you, I've despised that POS since
   before the "selection" in 2000. He was arrogant and smug throughout the campaign in 1999 and 2000. In fact, I remember saying to one of my friends in 1999, "wouldn't love to wipe that smirk of his face".

He always came across to me as the spoiled son of wealthy parents. He never did a day's hard work in his life and if he ****ed things up, the parents would bail him out every time.

It would be interesting to compare your life story I bet.
Enjoy the bile of bitter jealousy.

cliffordu (710 posts)        Sat Mar-29-08 01:24 PM
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12. I was living in Texas when Boosh became Governor -
   I watched what he said and how he carried himself. I was heavily drug addicted to drugs in my youth and I know a ripoff when I see one. Boosh has all the earmarks of a guy who'd sell you drain cleaner and call it 100% pure China white.

A drug addict on DU??!!

Peake  (1000+ posts)         Sat Mar-29-08 01:38 PM
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15. I reached my outrage limit during Reagan's reign.    
   These days, I practice a level temper and tell the truth as often as I can, as it pisses off the Reagan/Bush types, who cannot possibly function in a truth-oriented environment.

That is because you are inside the pane of glass you are looking through,it is us that are laughing at you.

blues90  (1000+ posts)         Sat Mar-29-08 01:58 PM
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16. This administration was after I reached my breaking point
   Certainly this Bush admin is the worst there has ever been . As soon as Bush was handed the election that was it for me . It was not so much that Bush is a freak but that the people in this country allowed this election to be handed to bush and did nothing to fight it .

We have been lied to for many years about everything . People in this country are stupid and easily lead in this country by fan-fare and popularity and base nothing much on substance or reality .

Here we are once again being fed a stream of endless lies by media and popular politicians as if they are some sort of figures and all knowing and without fault and we include movie stars and sports figures as if their opinion has any real basis in reality when they simply run to the front of an already ongoing parade to support a cause that they really had nothing to do with in the first place . They have to opportunity to pick and choose a cause where the rest of the people have to live with the results .

The only time politicians are close to people in the public or have contact is when they are on a campign trail to rally votes and support , once they have their seat the people are never again in the central picture and the people are left to live with what they were told to be true . Yes they can sit down at a country home table or hold the baby for a photo shoot and never come close to reality . They live in their own reality and this is with few exceptions .

The sad part is the bush admin has made things so bad before the people were able to see it and now we have lost all control and willingly handed it all over to the corporations and now it's too late .


It's pretty easy now to wave hope and change or a new way forward or trust us we can do it or we have the experience in the faces of the people and get away with it when things are now so bad and desperate but it really means nothing until the people decide enough is enough .

So far the people are not willing to stand together and work together and are once again placing all hope in a candidate when the people are the ones who have to make the moves required to make things change .

It's just a never ending vicious circle that cycles every 4 or 8 years and we get nowhere other than to fall behind .

We heard never again however here we are again and we had civil and equal rights that have been stopped into the dirt over and over again and we are right back to square one with yet another set of candidates telling the masses what they know they want to hear .

What we have are nothing more than career politicians .

You were saying what about people being stupid? 

[Bondai]

Dummies are such a pathetic lot. Their lives revolve around who is in the whitehouse? or holds some other elected office? They must be joking. I cannot imagine conducting my life based on who is sitting in the oval office. I may agree or disagree with the presidents polocies but alter my belief structure based on an elected official, don't think so.

It is like the primitives are totally lost without someone to hold their hands and guide them through their day to day routine. DU is a perfect example, they post help me threads all the time, the topics are often very personal in nature, they are incapable of helping themselves.They loved Bill Clinton, I don't know why. He was a lying corrupt despot with a sex addiction, he was their hero. He told the mindless what to think and how to act and they followed him down the trail, they still praise him today and still cannot accept the fact that he perjured himself.

A great many of them see Hillary the same way. Most sane people see her for what she is, a lying power hungry socialist with delusions of grandeur, a recipe for disaster. I can't wait until McCain wins the GE and I can sit back and watch the total meltdown of thousands of DUmmies with nobody left to hold their hands...it will be glorious.

[jukin]

My guess would be most of them that were alive and now their children reached the breaking point when the USSR collapsed.