I think I am suffering from shell shock. The barage of crimes by * and his

[BigBearJohn]

administration is overwhelming. Everyday, more crimes of this
administration are being revealed... like a never ending faucet of
one crime after another. So much so, that I am feeling numb.

What's really sad is, I think the American people are just "getting
used to it" -- so much so that when another major crime is announced,
people seem to be indifferent to it... sort of like... "oh... business
as usual." A matter of the extraordinary becoming ordinary.

amazing.

[fooj]

1. I just mentioned that the other day...

it's like subconsciously the American people have come to accept the corruption! It's maddening.

[ingac70]

2. This Administration is no different that previous Repug ones....

Poppy and Raygun were just as bad. This bunch just go so far in it, plus using NAZI tactics like "we must take your freedom to save it", the rope got long enough for them to hang themselves.

[Batgirl]

3. ain't that the truth

In peeling back the layers on just the Abramoff scandal, and seeing that no matter how deep you dig you're never really at the bottom of it, and gradually realizing that we're dealing with a multi-pronged malignant growth with a seemingly limitless capacity for spreading and sickening our democracy....I can only ask myself -- when do these evildoers find time to ever fucking sleep?????

[War Pigs]

6. $$$$

I saw today that Abramoff made $82 million in lobbying!$@! Are you fucking kidding me??? This is just another variation of "money changers", like Robertson, Falwell, Dobson, etc. Wasn't there a warning about people like this in an old book somewhere? Oh yea, and false prophet too? Lesson: in the bush economy you don't have to produce anything to get vulgar rich, just suck the right schlongs! :puke:

[tatertop]

4. Shell shock is a good way to put it

I am feeling the same way

[ladjf]

5. Mass PTSD.

[Bellamia]

10. Interesting.........

"Shell Shock" is the old term for PTSD; I'm old enough to remember the soldiers from WWII who suffrered from Shell Shock. I hate to think what the Vets of this Iraq debacle will have to endure,specially now that the ordinary citizen is also a casualty.

[ladjf]

12. Yes. Shell shock and PTSD are synonyms that describe

a very debilitation psychiatric disorder. Time will show just how sick America has become. The Republican coup d'etat will be studied in history books for centuries to come. The future will be amazed at how simple it was for a handful of crooks to take of the most powerful county in history.
The mistakes made by those who allowed it to happened will be dissected and studied for the benefit of future people.

[Bluerthanblue]

16. I think it's more a case of disassociation-

among the 'masses' who aren't outraged, overwhelmed and frustrated to the edge by what we (those who either can't or don't slip into denial as a way to cope).

It's getting harder to face each day, even given the small steps of progress- and the exposure of truth, as many of us have been fighting to reveal become 'common knowledge'.

anyone remember Roy Thinness and the "Invaders"???- that is what this world feels like-

[ladjf]

19. I see this very thing in my sweet wife. She refuses to allow me

to even talk more than a second or two about politics. She says it upsets her and theirs nothing we can do about it. Maybe she's right. But, I can't help but to be enraged, profoundly offended and alarmed by the fact that a Republican coup d'etat has occurred and that we are living in a fascist dictatorship, enabled by some very misguided religious people as well as a handful of Dixiecan crooks in political office.

Not enough people are mad enough or we would be seeing more resistance. There are many people who would be willing to fight and even die for America if there was just some sort of plan that looked like it had at least a prayer for success. The crooks have done a good job of stacking the deck in their favor.

[SammyWinstonJack]

22. Sounds like my husband. nt

[Bluerthanblue]

23. oh

do I hear you.... what are we to do???? it's getting unbearable.
I don't want to give up, but don't know how to go on.

Wish you encouragement and wisdom-

[madmunchie]

27. "I don't want to give up, but don't know how to go on."

Truer words were never spoken! My son says that ALL politicians are guilty of working for the same goals, no matter they be R or D. My husband says pretty much the same thing.

I just can't accept that this is it. What the hell, I like brick walls.

[BigBearJohn]

7. I mean, REALLY, just how outraged can one human being get?

before your body breaks down and you just give up...

Maybe this evil existed before... maybe I just wasn't
aware of it..

I'm so sick to my stomach...

You want to know what really fucks with my head?
When I meet a really cool person who I "think" is
intelligent... and then they proceed to tell me that
they support this administration 100%

BANG! ZOOM! to the MOON!

[Bluerthanblue]

24. I have to believe that telling the truth-

to each other- sharing how crazy this all seems, and hearing other normal people voice the same overwhelming outrage is of some positive value-

We need to encourage each other more than ever before-

I know exactly what you say about being blown away by those who seem like kindred spirits, and then, ... the monster comes pop ing out where a person was just a second before-

I did alot of drugs in my earlier days- i've had my mind f...ked with along with my life.... but i've never felt as if i was actually the 'sane' person in the room, with such conviction and clarity before- which may be proof positive that i am indeed completely crazy. In a 'sane' world- and if that's true, i want to get off.

[agates]

8. I've been calling it outrage fatigue

But that really is too mild a term. Maybe outrage outrage is better.

[BigBearJohn]

9. A-ha! There is just ONE explanation. Here it is at last:

[melody]

11. About as "used to it" as they were to the Godfather movies

Pretty soon, you figured out the Corleones were not a warm and friendly family.

I think the only "getting used to it" thing that is happening is Americans are just becoming
resolve to the fact the bastard is a thug.

[BigBearJohn]

13. What percentage of the American people do you think are in apathy?

[TahitiNut]

14. Isn't it amazing how tolerant the intolerant can be ...

... in a "zero tolerance" culture? Drugs? Zero tolerance. Addiction to power and money? Huge amounts of tolerance. Go figure.

[peacetalksforall]

15. I don't which crime will be the worst. Grover Norquist and Abramoff

ties to terrorism funders and I'm not just referring to the funds the Abramoff fed to Israeli radicals to fight Palestinians - I'm talking big time terrorism.

I am beginning to think that crimes such as Ken Lay and Abramoff were not just for personal profit and the profit of friends - I believe they also fed the slush funds that allows this regime to operate many secret sub-governments with the NSA and DOD spying be just one of them - possibly their least costly operation.

By kicking Congress in the face, butt, ribs in their contempt for them - they are also wasting all our tax dollars. Why have a front Congress that masquerades as an operation within the Constitution when it is nothing since these creatures have to conduct secret governments? Do they just want to save the cost of rewriting the school books that teaches our innocents about our superior country?

What hypocrisy?

[ddeclue]

17. Breaking news: Bush actually IS Nixon...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x76377

[Beam Me Up]

18. "The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it."

-- Dr. Joseph Mengele

Do not despair -- or if you must, don't despair for long, BBJ. Our whole human history has been a struggle up from the slime of our animal beginnings. There is real hope, so long as we work individually and together to manifest those virtues of conscience that ennoble.

[BigBearJohn]

20. Very well said. Thank you.

[Beam Me Up]

21. Hug and a smile.

:hug:

[1democracy]

26. Zero Tolerance for Corruption and Stupidity

That should be our motto. One strike and you're out! We don't trust you any more and there's nothing you can say to convince us you won't do it again, *ush. This is what the Dems (better if all of Congress) must say to everything from Bush. I guess Congress may have to be specific-- we do not authorize war against Iran, we do not believe you or your administration ANY MORE! We hereby rescind the concept of War on Terror, and move the activities to protect our country to the police, since your Admin. is so incompetent. THE END! Go back to cutting cedars for the next 2 years. We don't want or need you.

[Golden Raisin]

25. I don't watch a lot of TV

but the feelings you describe are exacerbated by our whore media. First of all they are now on the air 24/7, so there is a relentless, hammering, deadening quality to it all. (Yes, I know all one has to do is turn it off, but a lot of people don't or can't.) The whore media endlessly repeat the same talking points, stories & video clips over and over and over (HOW many times did we all see the footage of the planes crashing into the Trade Towers?) Either the whore media are rooting, cheer-leading, misleading & outright-lying for BushCo, or they are diverting the attention of the sheeple masses with systematic saturation coverage of idiotic, pap stories like the groom who disappeared from his cruiseship honeymoon, the missing girl in Aruba, the runaway bride, the Michael Jackson & Scott/Laci trials --- you get the picture.