Reply #53: My approach . . . [View All]

[Ex Lion Tamer]

I've many years of 12-step recovery, so I use those principles: Work for what I can change and accept my powerlessness over the rest.

In all honesty, it's been difficult. I get so incredibly angry at times that it's simply not healthy. I've wanted to run cars with Bush bumper stickers off the road. I've wanted to throw a brick through my television set. I've wanted to burn newspaper stands.

But then I remember what a wise friend of mine once said: "Carrying around anger and resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to get sick." George Bush, Bill O'Reilly, and Judy Miller could care less about me, so why should I torture myself thinking about them?

Look: We've made it through before, and we'll make it through again this time. I hated Nixon. But we had wonderful Jimmy Carter after Nixon. I hated Reagan. But then we got wonderful Bill Clinton.

Maybe I'm too optimistic, but I believe that this country has an instinctual ability preventing it from traveling too far down the path we're on right now; and I believe that the level of dissatisfaction with Bush and the Iraq war is proof of that.

But, if I'm wrong, I'll probably just go buy an assault weapon and join the resistance. :)