Have anger and frustration levels of decent people ever been so tested on a daily basis for so long?

[NRaleighLiberal]

I think of the spinal tap movie and the amp setting at 11.

Since election night, each day I feel like I am setting it to 11. Then the next day it goes to 12. then....on and on and on - I am in triple digits (having watched the Cuccinelli video posted elsewhere).

There has to be an end to this madness. I suspect we are all being inwardly chipped away day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute watching it all unfold in utter disbelief.

Sorry - just letting off some midday Monday steam...

[spanone]

1. No. every morning waking to a new nightmare

[smirkymonkey]

2. This, a thousand times over.

I feel like the steam just keeps building and building and eventually something has to blow. It just can't keep going on like this indefinitely.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. thanks, I know it's not just me, but helps to share my feelings on it among friends!

[get the red out]

6. That's a good description

I have just been PISSED OFF since election day, NEVER surprised, just pissed.

[zipplewrath]

4. Yes

I think they called it "Jim Crow Laws". Tested the patience of black southerners daily.

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. Great point - thanks.

[some guy]

9. Ooh, I should have read your post before writing mine.

Same thought process we had, though.

[NRaleighLiberal]

11. that's OK - the more ideas, the more info, the better.

[some guy]

14. Yes, I think so, too.

I had briefly thought, "oh, I didn't need to post at all, since my line of thought was already expressed."

But, more examples of enduring and overcoming can serve to foster empathy, hope, courage and strength to carry us through our current troubles.

So. Good question you raised.

[some guy]

7. I'll guess

That many, many slaves were decent people, and so had their levels of anger and frustration tested daily for the entirety of their lives. And much, much more severely tested than anything you're currently experiencing.

So, yes.

[NRaleighLiberal]

8. Agreed.

[some guy]

13. I hadn't read comments

From others, so I could have avoided posting altogether, since my thinking was already expressed.

[world wide wally]

10. Can the tangerine shitstain be impeached for being a general nuisance?

[Leghorn21]

12. For me personally, oh hell no. But then, I never lived in occupied France, and I was never a

Lakota woman living on the Great Plains in the 1860s, either.

This has been a motherfucker though, don't get me wrong, pls Raleigh!!

[mreilly]

15. I've been angry all the time...

... and more concerning I have been lashing out at rude people. I'm a 46 year old male. I thought someone was following me into a parking lot a while back since they came roaring into the spot next to me and I yelled: "Do you have a problem?" Turns out it was just someone parking.

On a boat cruise some guy admonished my mom and I not to talk so loudly and I rudely announced to my mother: "Gee, I didn't know we weren't allowed to talk, Ma!" Then I continued talking at normal volumes daring the guy to complain since I was ready to hit him.

I was taking my sick nephew to the car last weekend and nobody would stop to let us cross the street. I flipped off a Cadillac Escalade that deliberately ignored my "Can we please cross" hand signals and the guy stopped and yelled: "Fuck you!" I told him the same and invited him to get out of the car so I could beat his head in. He declined and drove off.

I'm worried I'm going to blow and hurt someone. And it's because I'm perceiving them as the aggressor or "bad guy" since I am so soured on society.

[Freedomofspeech]

16. All of my good liberal friends...

Are suffering everday...waking up to a fresh hell. I have never felt so discouraged in my life.

[Initech]

19. And it seems like it gets worse every day, doesn't it?

[Initech]

17. It's like they said in The Dark Knight: "some men like to watch the world burn".

And unfortunately those men are now in control of the United States government.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

18. The longest stretch that I've experienced previous

was the immediate aftermath of 9/11, which lasted for a few months, mostly fear and anxiety about what might happen next. It got better once I started cutting down my media consumption, especially cable news. This situation with Trump has had me on edge since last November and hasn't really let up. I have probably been a little too glued to Social Media but it's hard to ignore everything that has been happening ever since Trump was elected and not get upset.

[hamsterjill]

20. For me, it's because it's just so damn obvious, and yet nothing gets done about it.

It's obvious to me that the election was stolen. I know, I know...I need proof. But I KNOW this in my heart. I keep hoping that Mueller will move and someone will talk and Trump will be carted off in handcuffs.

I know that's not going to get ME what *I* want (i.e., Hillary in the White House), and I'm just not sure that I'm ever going to look at our democracy the same ever again.

I suffered through Bush/Gore and I'm just not sure that our country is going to survive Trump.

[Solly Mack]

21. I stayed angry the entire time Bush was in office.

I ended up seeking therapy because of the US government's torture and war crimes - and them getting away with it.

I had some less angry days when his father and Reagan were in office.

I'm still angry.

It's worse now, but only in the sense that the here and now is compounded by all (see above) that came before Trump.