Enough 2016! Go away!

[question everything]

Only in the past two days we lost "Watership Down" Adams, Carrie Fisher and now her mother Debbie Reynolds. If one wonders whether one can die from a broken heart, Debbie Reynold did.

Certainly since that faithful day last November, we seem to get bad news almost every day. The deaths and the disappointments and the sense of betrayal and the disillusionment.

I routinely turn the network news in the evening, and during the day would watch CNN or MSNBC, but as soon as Mr. T is there, I turn myself off. And, yes, will continue to do so for the next four years.

The only hope is to leave the "postmortem" behind and start looking for the future. The 2018 elections are less than two years away. And I hope that we can come with good candidates who are willing and ready for the uphill battle.

[Warpy]

1. Three more days of this gigantic black hole of a year

I'm not holding out much hope for 2017, honestly.

[2naSalit]

2. Right there with you on that...

I can't recall feeling this despondent after an election since W's second... well maybe Ronnie Raygun or Nixon (couldn't stand either of them) every time, but this is like all of them in one ugly-demon-nightmare-from-hell all smooshed together.

[Warpy]

3. 1968 was just about this bad

with Vietnam blowing up, 2 major assassinations, the mess at the DNC in Chicago, riots all over and Middle America voting that sick SOB Nixon into office.

[2naSalit]

4. I remember that too...

come to think of it, there have been few administrations in my lifetime that I felt there was a future worth being hopeful about while they were in office.