Depression will lead to Bush downfall....April 2003, Bernard Weiner.

[madfloridian]

http://www.crisispapers.org/Editorials/depression.htm

This is a great article from last year. It covers these types of depression being experience by our nation.
Economic Depression
SNIP.."So, what can be done about this coming economic depression? We can take a lesson from the Great Depression of the 1930s. When the situation got bad enough, the citizenry woke up and finally put the blame where it belonged -- on the "leaders" and their rotten policies. They focused their anger, elected progressive candidates, threw out the old crowd, and began climbing their way back to a "new deal" for the American people."

Societal Depression
SNIP....." I don't think I have to describe what I mean here. You and your friends and associates and colleagues -- all of us -- are affected by the general anxiety associated with a world seemingly spinning out of our control, with little we can do (so we're led to believe) to alter the situation for the better.

Terrorists are coming to get us, the rest of the world is unbelievably angry at America, the economy is in sad shape, there's no money for education or anything else, you may not have a job next week, your kids' after-school programs have been eliminated. Not even the election system is in your control; you cast your ballot for candidates and, even though they may have received the highest vote total, someone else assumes office, either appointed by a political faction on a court or through some hanky-panky in the software-programming for those computer-voting screens."

Personal Depression
SNIP..."A number of therapist friends report that their clients in the past several months -- not just liberals but conservatives and middle-of-the-roaders as well -- are experiencing virtually identical symptomatology as folks attempt to deal with heightened fear and depressive anxiety.

What you and I and a lot of others are feeling these days may not be full-bore clinical depression, but there are some troubling similarities."

SNIP..."Deep down, we know as we beat our heads against the wall of indifference and repression that, in the foreseeable future, all our pain and suffering and hard work will pay off. This group of illegitimate U.S. "leaders" is so filled with itself, so cocky in its arrogant bullyboy approach to the world, so over-reaching in its haste to grab what it can get, so confident that its lies won't matter and that its outrageous behavior will not be opposed, that it is walking on the red carpet of hubris. Its downfall is inevitable, its days are numbered, regime change is in the air."

I remembered this from last year, and it is right on the button.

[mandyky]

1. I love his "shallow throat" stories

BW's editorials are usually great and he is right on the money more often than not!

[madfloridian]

4. Shallow Throat: Memo to Dems about How to take Bush Down

More from 2003

http://www.americanpolitics.com/20030514Weiner.html

Shallow Throat:
SNIP...""I can't believe what your Democrat friends are doing. Here you have an authoritarian regime, doing great damage to our constitutional form of government, doing even more damage to an already weakened economy, rampaging around the world attacking and threatening governments, doing and saying things that are enraging entire areas of the world against the U.S., insulting and humilitating our longterm allies, weakening all international institutions, cutting back on all sorts of valuable social programs, attacking environmental protections, appointing ideologue judges who will OK everything the Bushies do, controlling the conglomerate press. In short, you've got a regime in power that is endangering U.S. interests abroad and engaged in ruinous policies at home, and your Democrat buddies behave as enablers."

SNIP...""Now wait a minute," I interjected. "I too abhor the cowardice of the Democrat leaders, but you forgot to mention that they are in the minority in Congress, and have very little power to do anything."

"That's true in terms of numbers," said Shallow Throat, "but -- even ignoring the alliances that can be made with moderate Republicans -- by not even trying to mount a righteous, tenacious, vocal opposition, the Democrats further empower the worst policies and tendencies of the Bush Administration. And, worst of all, by not performing as a true opposition, they give the impression to the citizenry at large that the Bush policies have the Democrats' OK and that they, and the people behind those policies, are not dangerous enough to bother opposing."

"But you know," I replied, "that you can use up all your political capital and credibility if you oppose everything. You just look like sore losers and obstructionists."END SNIP

Oooh, sounds so much like the last year or so.

[UTUSN]

2. Well, *My* Depression Ought to Lead to Shrub's Downfall

if fairness had anything to do with Life.

[madfloridian]

8. I have had a lot of it over this war/invasion.

It just about devastated us here when the bombing started in Iraq last year. It tore my heart out.

[dumpster_baby]

3. Good to hear I am not the only one who is depressed by political situation

I blame it all on the internet: if it the internet had never been invented, I never would have read all these leftist ideas. Even as an avid raeder, pre-internet, I was mainly exposed to true leftist ideas, writings, and research only on a secondhand basis, filtered through writers in establishment publications. But after using the internet for a few years, it became not only my main source of information, but it also exposed me to true leftist ideas and research. What I have learned has really depressed me and angered me. The evidence is really out there that the rich and powerful and the political, media and corporate elite have colluded, collaborated, conspired, etc., to deliberately lie and impoverish most Americans.

[madfloridian]

9. Good point about the internet.....for years we did not know.

I guess that is why I am so disillusioned this time around. We know more.

[Pallas180]

5. God - I hope he's right.

ai yi yi, chihuahua, this lil yappy doggy follows me wher'er I go.

[madfloridian]

7. Love that yappy dog.

:evilgrin:

[goforit]

6. We need a FDR to lead and right now there ain't one!!!!!