I'm ready to open my window and yell

[TexasBushwhacker]

What about you?

"I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!

We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy.
It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."

Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.

I want you to get mad!
I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.

All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.

You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,

"I'm as mad as hell,
and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"

Network, 1976

[csziggy]

1. For those who like visuals

[Guilded Lilly]

6. Another great Network moment...

William Holden's final smack down of Fay Dunaway "You are television incarnate, Diana," he tells her, "indifferent to suffering, insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality."

Or in The cretin's case, "You are reality show incarnate...(snip) All of life is reduced to the common rubble of Twitter."

[True Dough]

2. Wait a minute...

This is a bit premature and somewhat exaggerated, is it not?

I mean, when the campaign was in progress, we heard Drumpf repeatedly talk about making America great again. The premise was that everything has eroded. All around us life is so much worse under the Obama "regime," or so Drumpf wanted us to believe. That's folly, of course.

Granted there are numerous policies and practices that are desperately in need of reform, and there are civil rights and humane approaches that must not be cast aside under the PEOTUS and his cronies. So we must be vigilant. But let's not overreact. Let's not sound like we're about to hyperventilate because everything is suddenly gloomy. Even Michelle Obama's message to Oprah yesterday about the "absence of hope," was not helpful, IMO (and I love Michelle and Barack).

I refuse to live without hope, without a drive to preserve and enhance fairness, justice, civility and human rights. Like economics (and our own personal accounts), things can look rosy at times and grim at others. But let's take a deep breath, realize that the sun will still rise tomorrow (as Obama accurately promised it would on the day after the election) and carry on doing the things that make a difference in our own lives and the lives of others.

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. Perhaps it's premature

But between Trump's cabinet appointments and the latest shit in NC, I just don't know what's going to happen to our country. My anxiety is paralyzing.

Maybe I need to go down to the beach and scream at the ocean. That's what my aunt did when her youngest grandchild was born with Down's Syndrome.

[True Dough]

4. I just wish everyone could cope better

I've seen a dozen or more posts from DU members who say they cannot sleep well since the election, some say they have started taking anti-depressants, one person says he's been recently diagnosed on an ulcer (which he figures has been exacerbated by the rise of Drumpf) and a couple of others say they are conserving cash, including giving less to charity.

It remains to be seen whether Drumpf will leave America in ruins (I still think he will be prosecuted for some offence that pre-dates his occupancy of the White House or something illegal he does shortly after taking office). In the meantime, it would be a damn shame if people's health is affected and sense of giving is curtailed due to living in constant worry.

Don't let this clown bring us all down!

[hfojvt]

5. to think they thought things were crazy in 1976

[Skittles]

7. what's strange is, in retrospect it wasn't that bad back then

compared to how it is now

I feel the same way when I watch Office Space