Post-Election Depression

That's it!  I'm done! As a confirmed political junkie for the past nine years, I have finally made the decision to cut the cord!

No more

No more

                                                                                   
                   
No more

                                                                   

And, no more

                                                     

When I think of how much time and energy I have wasted keeping up with all the political pollution, it makes me heart-sick!

Let's see, I'd usually start my day by checking my inbox and reading all the forwarded anti-Obama articles and political cartoons.  (I'd even forward a few my self to like-minded souls.)  Then, I'd read USA Today online, where most of the paper was devoted to poll results (and the absence of Benghazi news).  While I got dressed and put on my make-up or if I was going anywhere in the car by myself, I was tuned into 99.9 FM, the local Fox affiliate radio station out of Wausau, and listened to Jerry Bader give us his take on how the election was shaping up.  This was just a time-killer until the main event...Rush Limbaugh.  Then, of course, our evening entertainment consisted of a solid diet of Fox News:  Bill O'Reilly (I really can't stand this arrogant, verbally abusive man!), Shawn Hannity (he's really turned into a rude pit-bull!), and Greta Van Susteren (basically a re-hash of all the "news flashes" that we'd already heard).

I threatened to become apolitical after the 2008 election, but after last night's sad and disappointing election results, I am now adamant about divorcing myself from anything to to with politics.  I will not watch BHO on TV or listen to any pundits rant and rave about him.  I will not listen to any of the president's press conferences, nor will I listen to any more State of the Union Addresses.  I don't want to know how he's continuing on his mission of fundamentally changing this county into a socialist nation.  I don't want to see any pictures of him smirking and Cheshire-grinning.  I don't want to see Michelle or the two daughters.  I don't want to know!

Instead I will get back to what I used to do before I became so infected with the political bug....I will catch up on my fiction reading and devote more time to creative projects that I have on my mental to-do list.  I will walk on the treadmill and listen to music on my iPod to drown out the sounds of Fox News coming from the other room.

I have deleted CNN and Fox News from my iPad.  I'm still debating about whether to delete USA Today from my laptop and my iPad.

For once, I think that ignorance may just be BLISS!