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remember how you felt the morning after election night 2016? (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Oct 2018
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PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,895 posts)1. I went to bed before the results were known.
My radio goes off at about 5:50 am and I get 10 minutes of the BBC then Amy Goodman and Democracy Now. I honestly felt as if I'd entered an alternate universe.
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)2. I have been thinking this question more than ever during the past week.
What are we going to do if we lose? I have the feeling the suicide rate is going to increase. People are going to be more than depressed and hopeless.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)3. It will be the end of the republic.
Secession movements will be born from it.
murielm99
(30,761 posts)4. If we lose,
we are going to keep fighting. I am a Democrat who lives in a red area of a blue state. I am used to fighting and I will never quit.
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)5. You sound like
"the unsinkable" Molly Brown.