I feel numb. How about you?

[IndianaGreen]

I just want time to recover and to think about where do we go from here, and we have nothing to gain by Monday morning quarterbacking. It is clear that Bush's victory was primarily due to a couple of million of Evangelicals that came to vote their prejudices rather than sit this election out as they did in 2000. Who can compete against such ideological rigidity? Who would want to?

Let's take a few days off to recharge our batteries and to take a well deserved break.

[MoonAndSun]

1. I was numb last night,

today I am resolute and determined to fight the good fight. I know that once the shock of this election is gone, most of us will continue to fight.

[Nite Owl]

2. I have been in such a state of shock

Intellectually I know we could lose but in my heart I didn't really think it could happen. I've had a flash of anger here and there which I guess is a good thing and is just one of the stages we have to go through as regrouping begins. There was so much emotion put into this campaign it will take a while but I already feel it coming on. Some things haven't changed: we have the truth and better good for humanity on our side.

[dougkess]

3. Agree

Yes, it was the evangelicals that pulled it off. And I am going to allow myself to grieve, and mope, and be a little dazed and pissed off and freaked out.....and it's okay to feel the way we do. We have to allow ourselves to "let it be" for a while and not think that we have to pretend amongst ourselves that we're "fine". We're not fine! For a few days, we'll heal these wounds together.

[Thoth]

17. Welcome to DU and I'll second that...

I feel like I'm in one of those sci-fi dystopias with Arnold as the bad guy. The days getting shorter and colder doesn't help any. Very surreal, like a very bad dream that seems hopeless to ever wake up from. Wake me when it's over.

[Cush]

4. not numb

Happy with the results? Of course not! But to be honest, I'm just not all that suprised with what happened (falme away if you want....I'm just a pessimist by nature)

Until we get an open and unbiased press, this will probably continue. So that's really the first thing we have to work on, like David Brock's "Media Matters", we need to contine to act as a watchdog over the so called "Liberal Media"

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. For two days now.

BTW the fucker ruined my nite at the Brian Wilson show. God Damn fundamentalist trash.

[MidwestMomma]

6. Numb, bitter and heartsick....all at once

I could barely be decent to people at work today. Even the ones I like. I feel like a wounded animal that has crawled into a cave to lick it's wounds. I hope a whole me will re-emerge, but I'm feeling pretty fragemented.

[Cat Atomic]

7. I'm just pissed.

[UNIXcock]

8. Gonna take the family for a mini-vacation

... just need to clear my head of this election a bit - Mama says I took it all too serious, well duh :shrug:

[livinbella]

9. I feel lost

I am re-thinking everything right now. Damn this is sad.
I gotta get out of this country.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

10. Numb. Grief is nibbling at the edges but hasn't hit yet. Probably

will by this weekend when I am no longer busy working.

[ethereal]

15. Like I'm in the middle of a nightmare

Today I sat and watched *'s speech, surrounded by Freeper coworkers, and it felt surreal. Like I was having an extraordinarily bad dream. I somehow managed to keep my mouth shut, and just listened to their comments. Not a one of them was informed about the campaign issues. Just gloating and happy. When someone commented about how "charismatic" * appeared, I literally felt the bile rising and had to leave the room.



I honestly and truly believed that this country would see the contrast and wake up. Now I realize we have so much work ahead of us, and we need to reassess our methods and our messages.



Thank you, fellow DU-ers. I don't know how I'd get through this without you.

[Loki]

11. Numb and tired

sick at heart , alternating between disbelief and wanting revenge. I want them to pay for what they are doing to this country, but deep down, I already know that they will reap what they have sown.

[dae]

12. Numb, sums it up for me. Dumb, sums it up for them.

[Mika]

13. Numb and tired

I'm with ya. :toast:

[TexasUnderground]

14. Depressed.

We never had a chance in Texas, but I was hoping Ohio would pull through.

[HoosierClarkie]

16. Today was a one two punch..

because I too live in Indiana and have to deal with the damn My man b*tch signs! I just feel overwhelmed. Someone said to me that because the Republicans are in charge, they can not blame us for anything the next four years. Lets just hope after they hit rock bottom, things are not too late.

[IndianaGreen]

19. Having Kernan lose to that idiot Daniels...

was adding insult to injury. We have 4 tough years ahead of us in Indiana!

[booksenkatz]

18. I haven't cried yet, when am I going to cry?

I keep thinking that if I allowed myself to cry, I would never stop crying for the rest of my life. If I allow myself to accept the horror of what has happened, I will surely lose my mind. My family and friends are amazed that this person who is normally very expressive and emotional (I cry at the drop of a hat -- sad, mad, happy, whatever) is a rock solid STONE. I suppose it will hit me one of these days. I almost let go when I had to tell my little boy the bad news, and as I drove him home from school and looked in my rear-view mirror and saw him weeping for his country -- hot tears pouring silently down those sweet cheeks. But I had to be strong so I held back the tsunami, and now I'm numb again. Ever since about midnight last night, I feel as if my entire body, my entire spirit, has been given a shot of Novocaine. I can't eat a bite, and I can't sleep. I've slept but one hour in the past 2 days.

I'm not sure how my family and I will proceed from here. I feel utterly powerless and utterly devoid of ideas at the moment, that's certain.

Thank you, DUers, for being there today.

[brainshrub]

20. I'm numb.

[KittyWampus]

21. Bullshit, There Was Massive Scale Voter Fraud W/Diebold In Several

states.

[SammyWinstonJack]

23. Right! so I am listening to AAR

And this host is saying that atleast 8 to 10 mil votes were cast on machines owned by four companies all connected to the BFEE. I am listening right now.

[UTUSN]

22. "Numb" Is the Word for Me - Can't Yelll/Cry n/t

[laruemtt]

24. shocked, stunned, dazed,

hurt, like i'm regaining consciousness after being knocked out.

[dweller]

25. Hollow

betrayed.


what am i doing here? Because i find some others who feel the same.

dp

[lolamio]

26. numb, drained, depressed, and just very, very sad.

:(

[DemBones DemBones]

27. Numb, but angry, too, because I'm convinced votes were stolen.

And they're ready with the machines to do it again in 2008. Get ready for Jeb in the WHite House. I think voting is a lost cause now, along with our democratic republic. I predict we'll be hearing a lot of the old GOP line "It's not a democracy, it's a republic" as they justify taking voting privileges away from people.

[Carni]

28. Annoyed, drunken and somewhat gassy...

This was a joke (except for the drunken part)

In reality LIVID and ready for the martial arts (sans gas)