Are you more depressed under President Bush?

Question

I'm 44 and feel like Mr. Bush is ripping away all of my freedoms and privacy. He has spread hate throughout the USA and the world with his attitde and policies. People hate each other more than ever before. I hope things change in the next elections, I can't handle another President this evil.

Answer 1

I agree completely. I'm ashamed to be an American, due to the way Bush has represented us. He automatically chooses war as the first option, and his big business friends come first. I've heard that he believes that his generation will see the Apocalypse, which explains a lot about his foreign, economic, and ecological policies. If the Apocalypse is coming, who needs to be a caretaker for the future?

Answer 2

I am not depressed under Bush. I think that what we are doing is right and I think that further down the line in history everyone will think so too.

People do hate each other more than ever before but I think that lack of respect for the current administration is only the scape goat reason. The people of this world have been changing and I see it in America and have been seeing it for about 12 or so years now. Everyday we are showing less respect for each other. More and more our lives are about us and less and less about the greater good. My personal belief is that while things weren't perfect in the 60's you can tell that children respected their parents and elders and people respected each other maybe not 100% but 10 fold better then today.

This isn't something that happened over night and it is wrong to make it look that way to others.

As far as your freedoms and privacy they aren't being taken away. I don't want to hear the government is tapping your phone or monitoring you bank account because that simply isn't true.

And to all of you people that are "Ashamed to be Americans" can either get out there and vote to make a difference or get out. I know the whole just leave thing is getting tired but it's true. If you can't handle the heat get out of the kitchen. If you can't stand for what America means (Life, liberty and happiness) then you don't deserve to be here.

Answer 3

You don't think maybe you're taking all this a little too seriously? I mean spin aside no one has actually violated your privacy. The only things that have happened on that front have been to apply the same laws that have been used against drug cartels & the mafia over the last 30+ years to terrorism. No one's spying on you, that's just scare tactics to get the democratic base fired up. Not even they intend for you to take it that seriously. As far as spreading hate, was that really the President? I mean the parties were at each others throats back in 94, which led to the Clinton impeachment process. It's hard to point to much of anything the President has actually done to forment such vicious hate - a lot of spin, but little substance. The reasons for liberals & conservatives being at each others throats is not anything anyone has done. It's more of a demographic shift between the parties & people taking themselves way too seriously. Just relax & understand you'll have every opportunity to change things with the next election if you choose to compromise & pick a candidate you don't agree with but that will win, that's how republicans chose Bush & how they'll choose the next guy too.

Answer 4

There has always been tension between the right and the left, but in recent times the right has festered up like a boil on the body politic. Bush is just a symptom of the flare-up (Like puss) that has been going on since our common enemy has been vanquished (USSR). The right always has to have an enemy to hate in order to maintain it's existence and once the Communists were defeated, they had to re-define the term to create a "New Evil Enemy", namely, the rest of us. If we disappeared from the scene tomorrow, they would adjust by fragmenting into competing right-wing groups who would hate each other over questions of right-wing orthodoxy. Don't trust that they will give up power, despite the results of the next elections.

Answer 5

I would be depressed if were not for the fact that I am optimistic, I look forward to a government without right wing oppression and where things can be put back in place as they should be. I vote.

Answer 6

I hear you. It seems like the world was a much less dangerous place after he took office. Protected free speech can get you nailed, and freedom of religion only counts if you are Christian.

Answer 7

I think your just miserable and depressed cause your life sucks and you want to push the blame for even THAT on the president. Why not, eh? Everyone blames him for all kinds of other crap that isnt his fault. Lets blame him cause your sad and lonely too.

Answer 8

no
your problem is football not politics.
The dummicrats have split this country and it will never heal.The wound from the civil war still bleeds and it was 150 years ago.This split in this great nation I pray will not end in armed conflict.But as an American I will not stand by and watch dummicrats destroy this nation

Answer 9

I am definitely getting sick of the polarization. I wish that things could move towards a consensus. Too many extremists.

Answer 10

The first thing I think about each and every morning is "what has that butt cracker done" to destroy my life or the lives of others today?