Unless Nov3.us has something practical I can do...

[Ladyhawk]

...I'm out of here for awhile. Everyone is going to turn on everyone else. I don't want to contribute anymore than I already have.

[0007]

1. I'm badly torn up. 71 years of living and fighting for something

better and now this.

[H2O Man]

2. okay, okay ....

I was wrong ... it wasn't a milk snake. Jeepers. Are you ready to get back into the struggle now?

Actually, I understand what you're saying .... a number of people are saying similar things in the private mail .... maybe give it a day or two. Everything will be okay. Even better.

[Ladyhawk]

5. I hope so, Waterman.

Right now, I need to grieve, get pissed, throw things, rip Kerry stickers off my car, scream, drive like a maniac to the high country, contact the only non-freeper friend I have, hope to hell that I'm not cut off cold from my subsidized housing and disability checks.

I won't move back in with my religious nut mother, so I'm already thinking of catastrophe. Homelessness or death...can't think of a third option.

[Kanary]

6. Yup, that's it..... homelessness or death.

Kinda puts us in a category of our own, doesn't it?

Yet, what I've had the last few days is "Stop feeling sorry for yourself"

Calling me paranoid.

Calling me an "emotional spastic".

Gawd, it's so nice to be so loved.......

Fuck it.

Kanary

[Ladyhawk]

8. Yeah, they say, "Stop whining! Do something productive!"

I've given up most of my life to this campaign.

I don't want to live in a fascist state.

I don't want to die.

I don't want to be homeless.

It's time to start finding homes for my pets.

[LynzM]

3. It's going to be interesting...

But please, if you do leave, come back later... :hug:

[Ladyhawk]

4. People have invited me to leave permanently because of a comment...

...I made.

I'm just generally pissed at the Democratic Party. I guess I need someone to blame: DIEBOLD, the Democratic Party, SwiftBoat Liars, somebody.

I am angered by Kerry's concession speech after all the hours, tears, sweat and money I poured into his campaign. Without a leader, I don't feel like fighting. I feel like he rolled over...just another Dem without a spine.

I'm angry now. So are others. We'll yell at each other, blaming various aspects of the campaign, what went wrong, whether Kerry was right or wrong to give the concession speech, whether we should have gone for a more liberal candidate.

Right now, I feel like giving up. I have health issues that I stressed to the max for John Kerry and the Dems and I feel shafted. I feel abandoned. He gave up and left us all wondering WTF to do.

We have no direction. "Let's secede!" "Let's take over the Dem Party!" "Let's form a new party!" "Let's stop shopping!" "Kill your TV!" "Don't shop at Wal-Mart or buy General Mills products."

My mind is screaming, thinking we've already tried to take our country back through legitimate means. What's left? Civil War?

[Kanary]

7. It isn't just a "feeling"..... we *ARE* abandoned.

I've been here long enough to know that reality.

There will be a few comments about the poor..... other than that, it's all attacks, the war, gay marriage, etc.

Nothing from the leadership, except more cuts.

Kanary