What has the last 7 years done to you?

[Javaman]

[Selatius]

1. How about more realistic in terms of fighting corporate power to institute reforms?

The reality is that it will take a life time or several to undo the amount of damage that resulted when corporate and state power colluded against the American people. In the meantime, people suffer and die for reforms that won't come until well after they are gone.

[Warpy]

2. Made me angry and ashamed of my country

and I'm talking as much about the elements in my own party that have allowed all this to happen as much as their party.

I will never forgive conservatives in either party for this.

[stillcool]

3. blown my mind...

[rox63]

4. Depressed the crap out of me

:(

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. Realized that there are large fundamental changes coming

I think that in the next couple of years our nation will be far different than it has been during my lifetime. I only hope that some rule of law and justice for the people will prevail and that tyranny will lose its battle with the forces of law.

[bdamomma]

6. on edge and very uneasy.

and would like to kick these bums to the curb or even better behind bars!!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Made me even more cynical. A result I thought impossible.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Aged me: turned my hair gray and drove my BP up 30 points!

[Sugar Smack]

9. Aged me 10 years and given me hives.

x(

[lame54]

10. A musical re-cap of the last 7 years...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=T5dQmS16QGg

[TheDebbieDee]

11. Other! I've lost all respect for ALMOST anyone calling

him/herself a JOURNALIST!

We now have very few people in the US that can accurately profess to be a real journalist. Most who claim to be journalists now are really propagandists!

[Forkboy]

12. Made me lose a lot of faith in the Democratic Party.

I was always cynical anyways, but I least thought they would be more up front and vocal against Bush, especially after what the Repubs did during the Clinton years. I didn't want them pulling the same mindless crap the Repubs did, but when faced with actual crimes they've been pretty much silent with just a few exceptions, and our "leadership" is beyond a joke.

[MuseRider]

16. Forkboy

thanks, now I don't have to write that myself. The only thing I would add is that I am despondent watching "our side" become just like the others. Just looking around here makes me cry sometimes. All nastiness with little to back it up, just nastiness for the sake of being nasty. Makes one feel better than the others I suppose, I can think of no other reason. Childish, angry people posting away against the people who they should be working with. Ah well, my time is limited here I am afraid.

Thanks.

[Forkboy]

17. I'm pretty snarky here so I may not deserve that thanks.

But I hope your time here isn't limited. Even with all the noise there's still a lot of great info here that I don't see too many other places, and it's tough to judge DU on a primary season anyways. Give it until after they're over and see if things calm down a bit. I suspect there'll still be a lot of dumb things, but I also suspect a lot of people will start to focus on the next task at hand..beating the crap out of the Republicans in the next election. :)

[MuseRider]

22. Who isn't snarky

from time to time. Snarky is a whole different ballgame than what I see around here sometimes. Snarky is nothing.

Waiting for primary season to be over now takes a long long time. This is no way to run a country, we will all start having massive strokes in our 40's if this time frame and type of rhetoric keeps up.

[catmandu57]

13. Damn near driven me to apathy

I'm hardened not shocked by anything these days, just the absolute shrugging of collective shoulders meh just another day in paradise. I'm one thin hair away from saying fine this is what you want, well, you got it leave me the fuck alone I'll stay here in my cave.

[AzDar]

14. I now curse ALL the time. I'm trying to stop, as I have two kids, but

I've explained to them that Mommy has run out of intelligent rebuttals to all the lies and ignorance making their way into our lives on a daily basis. When I see or hear Bush/Cheney or any of their known operatives (and they are legion), I spew enough obscenities to make a drunken sailor proud. I plan to quit on January 20, 2009.
And don't even get me started on what the boys call my 'BushFinger'........

[Chrisy5558]

15. Bush I think will go down as the worst President in History

I think Bush is the worst President our country has ever had. I was just thinking yesterday with yet another report of events happening during his watch of the CIA destroying tapes; that we need to impeach him. Then the thought came who would take his place. Going from one bad apple to an even worst apple?

I am loosing hope that we will be able to really change things. Both parties are to blame for the sad state of affairs this country is in. They both have placed greed over what is best for the American people. It has been both parties who have been allowing our jobs to be outsourced, failed to pass health care for all Americans, added to the debt of our government, and failed to do anything serious about the effects of climate change.

I am also not confident that even if a Democrat is elected to office that there will be any real change that is needed. I am afraid that again this election it will be a choice between two people that no one really wants. Do we hold our nose and vote for Hilary or do we stand firm and write in the person we really want to be at the helm?

I wonder what would happen if they had an election and no one showed up because they didn't like the choices? Or if everyone wrote in none of the above? Would they finally be forced to have real campaign reform to make it easier for third party candidates to get their message out to the American people?

People are loosing hope that the way they vote on the new voting machines is the actual vote that was counted. People voting for Kerry and the Bush light is the one that lights up, no paper to double check to make sure the machine voted the way the person voted, and other dirty tricks that made it hard for people to cast their vote. Will we have a repeat of 2000 and 2004? Until we have real change with a safety net to make sure that every person who is registered to vote is not turned away, and that who we vote for is who gets our vote can we really trust the outcomes?

In conclusion I think when historians have a chance to reflect on the Bush Administration that they will label this period in history as one of the darkest days of our nations history.

[BeHereNow]

21. Welcome to DU! And I must tell you...

MANY of us on DU will be writing in Kucinich on our ballots.
It may be the last time we actually have the opportunity
to save the country.
Another corporate president, republican or democrat
will be the final straw for the country.
So what's there to lose by writing in name
of the only Democratic candidate who is NOT
controlled by corporate interests?
BHN

[BeHereNow]

23. I think my health, mental and physical, has really deteriorated.

My cigarette and alcohol intake has gone from
barely any, to a good deal more over the last seven years.
ESPECIALLY after the 2004 elections.
Bad BHN...
:spank: :spank: :spank:

On edit- I meant this as a reply to the OP!
Whoops

[Kip Humphrey]

18. radicalized me. /nt

[Initech]

19. Every day it gets worse. It drives me to want to committ anarchy.

[blues90]

20. Made me finally realize without a doubt

That the government is out of control , elections have truly become a circus . I made me ashamed to be an american and piled on guilt that I didn't have in quite this magnitude ever before because of the crimes done in my name that never seen to end and i thought Vietnam was the end of this kind of horror . Everything is truly about status and money where I had hope this would at least be minimized .

It made me realize that many americans are truly racist and have proved it over and over again without hope of changing this ever .

What this criminal government has done as far as setting an example has brought this attitude to a trickle down mentality to most businesses and corporations as in , no one cares who suffers , just take advantage of the people no matter what .

I have lost faith as a nation .

[DemGa]

24. Well, I've only gotten better personally

That is, I've grown quite a bit. But I'm very often faced with the thought of the criminals who reside in the WH, and their effects on this country--it is an uncomfortable feeling at times.