The only thing more exhausting than people acting like an election instantly makes everything great and the world is now going to be amazing is the people acting like it's literally the end of the world.
You will not be substantially better or worse off a half-decade from now than you would have been in a slightly different circumstance.
OK so 10 years from now when everything is more-or-less the same as it is now, will you be standing up saying "I was wrong, I admit it, nobody should have listened to my hyperbole?"
If I'm wrong I will take up arms like anyone else. If you're wrong, I imagine there will be some excuse about how you were actually right and it's only because of some person or apparatus more politically palatable that averted this disaster. I don't mean anything against you personally but the same thing happened 8 years ago. Everyone was convinced that it was the end of the world and if you elide COVID-related things everything was pretty much the same as it was. The other side of the aisle said the same thing about Biden and that was equally false despite his objective and verifiable cognitive decline. The same thing will be true 4 years from now, 4 years after that, yet 4 more, etc.
I will not only stand up and say I was wrong, but will celebrate with you.
Eight years ago I still had hope that he would become "Presidential" and that the checks and balances system would work. I did not think it was the end of the world. I thought it would be bad for minorities and LGBTQ and women (and look at that, it was!).
But this time around, there is a published playbook and he's following it to the letter. Signing an EO to establish a concentration camp in Cuba (where they conveniently don't have to follow US law since it isn't US soil) is in Project 2025, and that happened yesterday. P2025 also includes the steps for consolidating executive power, and he's already taking those steps.
The inevitable conclusion of Project 2025 is allowing the billionaires to loot the Treasury, rounding up all the non-white people, and stripping most everyone of their rights.
Honestly a really bad take given the current environment. This is the not the thread for it but I'll point out that just today funds families around the USA and world require to live were pulled out from underneath them, regardless of law. I have a child who depends on those funds so it impacts me greatly, and I don't know if that child will be around long enough without funds for her care.
So please do not minimize what people are going through, it may not impact _you_, but many people are negatively impacted by the insurrectionist taking over the USA.
Balance compassion for yourself and others. Finding the balance is really hard, maybe impossible to do perfectly, so you have to try constantly. When you get close, I think you'll find that negativity evaporates in yourself in a way that's infectious to those near by you. Take care.
My first, drowned-in-doom-news take: can I move there? Immediately?