Disgusting and sickening and infuriating, would be along those same lines. Don't get me started.

Not sure it's that easy to be accepted elsewhere either, and I agree that we probably can't escape haters and bigots.

fear of the unknown.. we have not been in a place like this before.. and this is when we are tested to stand up for what we believe.. and get back to work.. what is going on right now is a house of cards.. that is going to fall apart..

one need to daily take time and walk away from the computer and TV. Read a book, go for a walk, do some shopping or whatever you need to do to clear your head. This is a train wreck in progress and who knows where it all lands.

you're home alone and what you're trying to resist is fear.

I'll be "gut honest" too. I have PTSD and since Trump was elected, I've had recurring feelings of being unsafe, feelings of most everything "out there" being out of control and unpredictable. There were a few days that I kept my curtains drawn and my doors locked. Then.....I forced myself to participate in the national protest a couple of Saturdays ago, where nearly 15,000 people showed up in a Vermont town of less than 8,000 residents. It was all for one and one for all, a profound experience.

You're not alone, I'm not alone, and we're stronger together. Our country is filled with good people doing good things. Remember that.

Sending a hug....

I'm a senior with heart disease. I need my medicare and social security. After Trump was elected, I had serious thoughts about suicide. So I understand your fear and dread. But I'm also (and more importantly) a Buddhist. Maintaining a calm state of mind and a focused determination is how we shall defeat this evil. Panic implies paralysis. We are more effective when we can calmly look evil in the face and focus on what needs to be done to defeat it, rather than if we stay freaked out about it.

So put on and pull up your hero britches and get involved with some local progressive organization. We need every single person to help us elect progressives at all gov levels come 2018. It ain't going to be easy, but it can be done. The Republicans are so over-reaching, and Trump is pissing off so many people, that he is deeply wounding the Republican party. We can repudiate Republicans come 2018. But only if all of us stay calm and focus on the work of what needs to be done. You can't exercise skillful means if you stay freaked out. So hang in there. We can defeat these monsters. Yes we can!

Sending you rays of sunshine to dispell the darkness.

harm everyone, not just the US. We are well and truly fucked if this is allowed to continue.

Expect false flags and fake Isis attacks in the USA to justify a coup.

Sorry if that adds more fear, but we don't want to have 20/20 hindsight.

Time to wake up and call the congress critters relentlessly.

from some sympathetic country. Or xanax or even muscle relaxers. Of course, strong opiates would be wonderful.

i dont blame her for feeling unsafe. i do. i feel like i did in the w years, as tho i had a mad dog in my back yard. i was safe, but i knew it was there. it could get at me in any number of ways. so i couldnt take my eyes of it.

spending more time here than i have for a while. keeping an eye out.

sigh, i am already tired.