Reply #129: How bad have things gotten...

[DisgustedInMN]

... when we as a people, take solace in words of near desperation?

If I hear, "Just hang in there" one more time, I think I'll throttle the one saying it. (figuratively, not literally) I'm fresh out of "patience." I've used up all of my "hope." I can't "keep plugging away" anymore. I'm tired from too many decades of "living by the rules," trying to build a future for me and my descendants, only to have it ALL snatched away again at the point in my life that "starting over" yet again, is no longer an option. I surrender, I'm beaten down so far now, "recovery" and "change" are merely words used to fool me into believing that there actually is "hope"

The real "audacity" is believing that there ever was "hope" we would prevail.

So, just like you, I am so fucking DONE.