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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI am just scared and overwhelmed right now. Have not felt this way ever.
And I felt this way before even turning on Rachel tonight.
spicysista
(1,663 posts)I have nothing else to offer but a soft reminder. You are not alone. We will survive this because we must all continue to press on.
CountAllVotes
(20,873 posts)What has this son of a bitch done to our country?
Freedomofspeech
(4,225 posts)I am an old broad...was in in college during Vietnam, etc. This is the worst time ever.
LiberalLoner
(9,761 posts)CountAllVotes
(20,873 posts)You are not alone!
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,470 posts)I'm pissed off,scared and triggered. I hate republicans.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,470 posts)CountAllVotes
(20,873 posts)OutfWatr
(19 posts)I'm old enough to remember the 60's Watts riots. This country always pulled through in times of tragedy, unrest. It is different this time. An immoral, corrupt, uncaring, dictator regime and GOP machine has been successful in spreading propaganda right out of the Russian playbook to many low information, cultists, lacking education or critical thinking. I am holding on by a thread to hope. I have to believe if our democracy and constitution are being destroyed, a coup, takeover vis-a-vis Hitler's rise, that Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler, Harris, Swallwell, Obama, and all leaders would step in joined by Supreme court to stop it. Hoping if it should happen the west coast states will split off from the union. We can live in a democracy there!
safeinOhio
(32,683 posts)Lived thru the 60s and early 70s and those were scary times too. Been ruffed up by a cop and had guns pulled on me 4 times and lived thru it all with only a bite mark on my left wrist. That happened when I grabbed a pistol away from a guy high on drugs and had it pointed at me and he bit me when I took it in the struggle. You don't think, you just act.
My GF hates guns, but tonight she had me give her a quick lesson with a 22 pistol and 20 gauge shotgun. Just in case because we live near some trumpsters that know we are Dems.
I don't expect anything in our area, but prepared to go down fighting if we have to.
Stay smart and stay safe.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,470 posts)I'm on subsidized housing and I don't want to be stuck in dicktater republicanistan they'd execute me or worse.
Initech
(100,076 posts)I just want next year to be here already.
safeinOhio
(32,683 posts)If we make it thru, until then, I hope all will be safe.
VOTE no matter what.
Initech
(100,076 posts)State, local, national, do not leave any box on that ballot unchecked!
hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)Just watching our democracy fade into the sunset and not seeing a single freaking Republican standing up to that orange clown.
Im exhausted. Im sad. Im angry and I am sick and tired of feeling this way.
Maeve
(42,282 posts)Kamala Harris, the bishop of DC....the photo op is going to back-fire BIG TIME. It's NOT 1968--it's 2020 and we can see clearly now.
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)A dictatorship is even harder. In the U.S. - with all our different factions - MUCH harder!
Trump's got Bill Barr, Mitch McConnell, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh (for a little while more), Donald Jr....
HE AIN'T GOT ENOUGH TO TAKE FULL DICTATORIAL POWER - OR TO KEEP IT ANY LONGER THAN A MERE MOMENT!!
Democracy and freedom have too rich a legacy in America to be so easily eradicated by a pathetic, illiterate, dim-wit like Trump.
Hang in there. Trump's time is short.
He will lose - and he may well go the way of a Mussolini.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Dont let the chaos fool you.
Theyre the ones that are scared. Scared of the Democrats. Because they know we outnumber them.
By the millions.
They know their grip on power is going away and they are terrified.
Be resolute.
Do not be afraid.
Vote.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)by something that we have a vast capacity to fight.
I hope the Joe Biden gives the speech of his life tomorrow. The country desperately needs that right now.