I mostly ignored it. But since I'm more active now its sad to me given our futures are hanging in the balance. I know the articles and attacking won't stop, but it would be just nice to take a break and just love each other for a moment.

With the Booker, Harris, and Castro on the stage, it felt like we were truly rejecting the direction Trump's influence has been taking us. Since they exited, it has been downhill.

I can see that. Same with Beto. I was all in for him because I worked hard to get him elected in 2018. Door to door, phone calls. But once he dropped. I tilted towards Biden, but overtime I grew on Pete and then Amy. So I'm undecided until the winner is announced

Is to use the full ignore button. There are those who seek to antagonize. That fuels people to resent other candidates. That’s no good.

I don't like to ignore others based on their preferences. Expect if you like Trump then you go in the bin lol

mostly just feeling helpless and hopeless and scared. It sort of comes in waves, mostly when #45 does yet another egregious thing.

So I am keeping busy planning a membership party for our Democratic Woman's Club, and working on a fundraiser for our county party and doing ballot chases for the Vote By Mail applications which were sent out to my precinct.

Doing what you can to flip our state back. Living up here in the panhandle. Its sorta difficult to start a organization here since it's much more conservative.

and do not believe that you are entirely incorrect. Yes there has been sniping and responses to sniping. Primary season can be very ugly. As suggested above, the ignore button can be your friend.

I have great concerns about the coming November election and beyond, no matter who the nominee ends up being. They will get my vote, but being in a heavily Red State that will be rather meaningless in the long run.

Mean eventually my vote is gonna matter in Texas because of how close it is to flipping in 2 to 4 years

There is NO room for picking an ERROR!

Reason I'll vote for whoever wins. I'm 29 and I still have lot of time left on the earth. Don't wanna spend my dirty thirties living in a dictatorship

If he wins again I'll fully believe it. Worst part about being young is seeing how truly fucked this world will continue to get

I survived two attempts and I still wonder how long it'll be before this world takes an even worse turn before I do it again. I can't imagine for the life of me why I'd want to bring a child into this world as it is. Its incredibly selfish.

The malignancy on the Presidency will eventually be eradicated. I wish you well!

I hope you are getting some professional help, but always know you can talk to us here.

and don't deride people for having children - some of them may be the ones who save this world.

so many times. I’ve quoted your “someone’s always here” so many times. It’s gotten me through some rough moments.

Even just remembering whenever it was that you first posted that, has been helpful. I bet it’s served far more than just me.

And, vercetti2021, keep that reminder. Keep those words. They mean a lot. They help. They really do.

I think just everything right now is just overwhelming with personal life and politics is just taking a very bad toll.

It’s debilitating. Almost as though it’s trying to suck the fire out of us.

But then, here’s what I always try to remind myself:

That’s what they want.

That’s what they hope for.

They know (I think trump knows this instinctively) that our heart, our belief in reality and truth and honestly and morality and ethics and compassion, and all those other good things, mean we’re softies. Snowflakes. Push-overs.
That’s what they want. How they want us to respond, and process this and try to make sense of it. And how it’ll make us feel helpless and overwhelmed and wanna run away or go hide. Or give up. Just as trump wants us all to THINK that the Ukrainians are investigating Biden & Son because he talked the Ukrainian President into ANNOUNCING an investigation that would help his own 2020 prospects. The strategy, like its intended result, is as shallow as the donald is. But he’s good at INSINUATING things. Plausible deniability, ‘cause he never actually uttered the specific words that could tie him to the bottom of a long deep well. But you “get” what he means, as Michael Cohen knows intimately and has described.

This guy is simply about mind-fucking. He’s a lazy SOB so he’ll do it verbally. But he’s just trying to mind-fuck all of us.

So that’s why I’m personally determined NOT TO PLAY. I won’t give in.

see, I am always awake all night - I live my life completely upside-down - so it is normal to be on DU in the middle of the night....I think that's when people start wavering, when their support is generally not available. But there's always someone on DU

I just for the life of me couldn't have a child in this day of age is because of how bad it is. But I always appreciate your words Skittles I do. I don't normally like to talk about depression, but sometimes it gets overwhelming.

Turn it back on again if I’m up to to it. Also ignore for some individual posters who are too strange
Maybe you already know this and are just hoping for better decorum

I feel when more drop out and it's down to two or three candidates. It'll be like the duel of fates around here.

I was not here for awhile and missed a lot of primary 16 when I came back befor the election I made the mistake of saying I thought trump would win and got piled on but it was an observance of what I was seeing and experiencing and had nothing to do with the nomination so I know it can get bad

I'm ashamed to say how bad of a Bern bro I was and how much of an asshole I was. I voted for her though because that's who I wanted. But given how bad it's gotten with Trump and trying to figure out who can beat him. It's just gotten so bad.

Focus = Anger + Action

I donate to my state party and officials here. Gave to Ossof today.

It helps.

I hope he wins.

I survived, and you can too.

IF *we* stick together, we can push back and fight back. And prevail!

Come join the fight!

I'm trying to stick together. I'm trying to keep myself together mainly. I guess every day when I come here I'm hoping for some kind of escape from everything. But seeing everybody just fights about stuff now, it's just very upsetting.

Dad gave me little hope for success in life. Trump brings out PTSD in me as it's nearly identical except for the personal aspect.

Courage. Just get out and join a group like Indivisible and show up to the meetings. You at least believe you're doing SOMETHING.

Mental Warfare. Reason a lot of my depression is how it is now. But I mean I hope we can figure it out around here where I live.

Find your local chapter of Indivisible:

https://indivisible.org/groups

I didn't know this was a real place.

It is disheartening.

There really is an existential divide between Bernie and Bloomberg (and Pete and Amy).

If we go with Bloomberg, I feel we are admitting that one has to be a billionaire to be president; yes, we like his *positions* better than Trump's, and he's probably a better human being, but we are really just choosing which Kubiki figure is going to rule us.

If we go with Bernie, we are standing for actual change, not just from cheeto benito, but from the 'third way' 'Republican Lite' paradigm; but we also will be fielding a candidate with vulnerabilities as well as genuine advantages.

I like Pete the best, but Amy and Elizabeth are good people who would do their honest best. I do not like or trust Bloomberg, never have, never will. I'll hold my nose, though. But a Bloomberg win will be, in my opinion, just a slower, fainter death knell as opposed to the current dumpster fire.

If he were to win, even though he is a billionaire too.

I do think that, while better than the current resident, one couldn't blame them if tens of millions of people said 'fuck it, you have to be a billionaire, why bother'.


that said, I'm just a bit left of center on most things. But I know a lot of Bernie fans

It is one thing to talk about potential vulnerabilities, especially in a very important election. But to see so many threads seem full of hatred and trying to tear down is depressing. And those threads aren’t only about my candidate.

But a lot of us have seen our candidates struggle or quit.