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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 659938" data-attributes="member: 1550">Copa, hi again and hope you are feeling great bout the move! Good for you!Copa, I used to be a news junkie, but a few years ago I found that the news only depressed me. To say Im disappointed in the way our country is headed, is an understatement, but there is nothing I can do about  it. I decided, f or me, to leave the state of the country to the young and to stop watching the news, chatting on my politics forum, or reading about what is going on in  the country and world. Yes, I willfully chose to bury my head in the sand both because I feel our country is going backwards, not forward, and I can't change that and because it upsets me and it's out of my control. I used to have strong opinions, but there are two sides to every story, and I gave up investing emotion in things that get the heart pumping while I can not do anything about it. As a kid, I worked for presidents and aired my views on a politics channel...it was quite fun until the country turned so reactive, in my own opinion, that it scared me. If my governor, Scott Walker, can be a viable candidate for President, I really think the rest of the world is leaping ahead of us in all areas and we are falling behind. I try to stick to issues that I can control. I was a big NPR fan once. I don't listen to it anymore.Boy, I've really become boring.But all I want is peace and am removing any stressors in my life that I can remove. I've been doing this for at least two years now. I don't think about the world. God help me, I don't CARE about politics, issues, and the world because the decisions made are by insane people. To me, you have to be half mad to think you are great enough to make decisions for an entire country. So laws of the land become about the individual person's feelings, and most of them are very rich, and not about the best interests of the mainstream people and it's our fault too because t he rich vote and the middle class vote less and the poor vote even less...or there would be no tea party, which I feel is very racist, christian, and backwards. I don't like religion in politics. I don't like racism. But I can't control either so I ignore. There is nothing I can do about it. The right to die? Another issue I have no control over.For me, this is a coping skill that has worked quite well to relieve a lot of my stress. One on one, I can help others. I can do  nice things for the needy in person. But the big picture is out of my control. I am taking the same stand I take on difficult siblings. Oblivion.I'm sure I sound very shallow, but at this point in my life I want to focus only on the prettiness of life, and the news and NPR don't show this. In fact there is a lack of good news on the news and the news is becoming entertainment. It's not even factual anymore. Debates on hot button issues? I leave them foro those who have control, just don't tell me the results. I am hibernating, thank you.The only way I will voice my objections are during elections in which I do what I thought I'd never do...vote straight down the line for one party only, knowing it stands for more of what I do then the other one. That's it. I can vote so I vote. Then I go back into my peaceful world where the horrors outside can't touch me.If I could have seen how the country would turn out in my later years, I would have packed up my young family and moved to Canada. Yes, I know it's not perfect, but it is much, much, much closer to my feelings of how a society should be than the U.S. is.If my kids didn't all live in the Midwest, I'd consider trying to retire in Mexico. It's very cheap and there are American communities there, which of course you know.But it is what it is and there are lots of disturbing issues going on and being debated in the U.S. and I blush for some of the people who are in charge of our country. How the rest of the world must rightfully laugh at us!!!! I'd laugh too if I heard stuff like "In a rape a woman's body shuts down..." No other country would CONSIDER electing such an ignorant man to office. So I prefer my hole and not knowing what is going on because I can't control it.I am fortunate that my husband has no interest in the news either. My friend's husband turns the  news on all the time and she doesn't want to hear it either. For some reason, although he is a union man and liberal, he keeps Fox News on and it makes his wife cringe. If she told him to turn the channel, he would as he doesn't like to distress her. But she wants to let him listen to whatever he wants and I agree with her. But I'd hate to have that blaring in my house all the time. I'd have to buy ear plugs...lol.Anyhow, my opinion is I have no opinion and, of cousre, have not given it much thought because it is an unpleasant subject and a potentially scary one that I have no control over.Sorry I can't be more intellectually stimulating company and hope you have a great day thinking about your new life <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Thinks are good here. Oblivion is working really well. Cedar, hope you check in today. I miss you w hen you don't check in.</blockquote>

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