is there a somber mood on the nation this thanksgiving?

speaking to customer service checking on a catalogue order, at the end of the phone call i wishes the customer service rep. a, "happy thanksgiving." all i got back was something that sounded like a grunt.

some friends went to visit relatives only to find that the host has been drunk for the last three days which altered moods and enthusiasms. my friends came back home ... no thanksgiving at their destination place of several days ago.

the neighborhood feels empty--but then, i don't know if it is a projection or the real thing.

there seems to be an omnipresent feeling of either pretend ... let us all pretend to be happy... or a feeling of ... "it just isn't the same..."

i am not sure just what mood is flowing around the nation this year.

I just hope people do not go crazy and go shopping.

I have food issues and I'm a vegetarian/animal rights activist. Thanksgiving is a fucking nightmare.

Every meal I share with the BIL he's got to wave a forkful of meat in my face. You'd think after 17 years the fun would have worn off for him, but it never does. I never say a word, but it gets old dealing with his junior high behavior. BTW, there is a great veg forum here at DU.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=231

Stop by & introduce yourself. At the top of the forum is a thread with great veggie recipes, too.


Welcome to DU, Darth Lenore! :hi:

i lost 60 lbs. last year ... my son and daughter in law wanted to have Thnksgiving here this year ...
i have psyched myself up determined to eat only the protein and vegetables ... and maybe one choc.chip cookie (which my daughter in law is making a badge of) i asked her to bring only two, three cookies at the most ...

I think America is somber because it now realizes that it will have to suffer through one more year -- and then some -- of Bushco and the gang of thugs in the regime.

Hopes were very high last year at this time. We had won back control of the House and the Senate.

Justice, we thought, would come. People would be held accountable for the lies and treachery that led us into an illegal war of occupation.

We thought that troops would be home by now. We thought that funds for the war would be turned off.

Some of us even nurtured the hope that impeachment would be on the table.

Instead, we find ourselves -- one year later -- with troops still in Irag, with Bush and his thugs still raving and consolidating their power.

Who can blame us for feeling somber??

give up, let's stay on their backs really, while our Reps and Senators are home let them give them a earful. We have to keep pushing them.

one wonders, do they listen? they have to listen ... they have to listen or we are really doomed.

If everything was on the up and up, the Democrats would take the WH and increase their margins in both House and Senate next year. The repukes will NOT allow that to happen, so we KNOW that everything will not be on the up and up.

But nobody knows how to stop it.

Ergo, dread.

What is the next shoe to fall?

quite the opposite....

It's not a very hopeful mood in my parts.

...except for figuring out how many families to visit. :) Three of my siblings are now married, so there's a lot more decision-making about whose families get to see who on Thanksgiving. Lots of traveling in and out of state, and lots of good cooking going on.

This isn't the time of year to focus on things that make you gloomy, and I don't know anyone who will be doing so.

thanksgiving?

Holidays in a heart beat ... it was the foreigners who came in the Mayflower who had a lot to give thansk for ... and so with each new foreigner who comes into this land ... even, and more so, in a time of persecution, rejection, and scapegoating ... i would tend to think that if the person had been a foreigner they would be more inclined to give thanks ... than those right here in america, like the bushes who have taken things ooooooo, so for graaaaaaaaaaaaaaanted... and actually, with them they have TAKEN from each of us.

That will put you in a somber mood.

Maybe other people are suffering a similar joykill under this wonderful Bush economy.

and the middle and working class people already realize it. There is a somber mood around the holidays this year because a lot of people realize that the times ahead of us are going to be very bad.

i think we have turned into a HAVE-and-HAVE NOTS sort of economy/country.

My younger son brought me to a grocery store last night, to pick up some "last minute" things. The store was crowded, as expected. I saw quite a few people that I know. Only one seemed to be in a really good mood.