Resetting Your Default Mode from Pissed-Off to Happy

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/21/09 at 4:57pm

Interesting blog entry from Chicago Fan at The Stranger (especially in light of last night's meltdown).

For many Democrats, straight and gay, black and white and Asian, Obama supporters and Hillary supporters, yesterday's events were like a huge dose of serotonin:

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THE STRANGER

A New Mood
Posted by Chicago Fan
Wed, Jan 21 at 6:37 AM

For me, the main thing about the Obama presidency is that it re-sets my default mood. Since Bush v. Gore and the judicial coup d'etat of 2000, my default political mood has been pissed off. Occasionally things would make me more pissed off or less pissed off, and once in a blue moon I'd be happy, but pissed off was the baseline from which everything started. And that was before 9/11 and Iraq.

Now, with a President who can speak in complete sentences, who believes in the rule of law, who believes in hiring people for their competence and ability rather than their personal loyalty and religion—my default political mood is happy. Things will piss me off about Obama, I'm sure, and some things will elate me: but the baseline is changed from pissed off to happy, and that's a huge shift.


A New Mood

Updated On: 1/21/09 at 04:57 PM