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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who thinks another Trump term will mean the end of democracy, or our country being destroyed, is overreacting. Full stop. We have too many layers of checks and balances, legal protections and inertia for that to happen. Four years is not enough time to unravel everything.

You’re not paying attention. https://www.project2025.org/

Some of those are actually good ideas.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who thinks another Trump term will mean the end of democracy, or our country being destroyed, is overreacting. Full stop. We have too many layers of checks and balances, legal protections and inertia for that to happen. Four years is not enough time to unravel everything.

You’re not paying attention. https://www.project2025.org/

Do you get paid for the clicks?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who thinks another Trump term will mean the end of democracy, or our country being destroyed, is overreacting. Full stop. We have too many layers of checks and balances, legal protections and inertia for that to happen. Four years is not enough time to unravel everything.

You’re not paying attention. https://www.project2025.org/

Yeah, that has zero chance of being enacted. Lots of talk, very few results.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who thinks another Trump term will mean the end of democracy, or our country being destroyed, is overreacting. Full stop. We have too many layers of checks and balances, legal protections and inertia for that to happen. Four years is not enough time to unravel everything.

You’re not paying attention. https://www.project2025.org/

Anyone who thinks another Trump term will mean the end of democracy, or our country being destroyed, is overreacting. Full stop. We have too many layers of checks and balances, legal protections and inertia for that to happen. Four years is not enough time to unravel everything.

Anonymous wrote:OP - I get where you are coming from but I think it’s super important to understand why 50% of the country supports Trump. “Normal” for you (and me) is not being understood the same way by these people. It’s easy to dismiss this 50% as stupid but that’s a misstake IMO. I think the Democrats need to offer candidates who don’t talk down to people, don’t frame their opinions as dumb, try to address their issues, and be confident in reasssing policies that are not working.

Please. These voters want a show. They want a strong man. Biden doesn’t talk down, life is complicated, not everyone is going to get a pony.

The amount of grievance from people is so effing ridiculous. We have the best economy in the world. The fact that we came out of Covid so strong is a freaking miracle! We should all be praising Democrats not just Joe Biden, but the whole party who have held this country up while at every turn, Maga Republicans have tried to tank it.

Democrats have delivered votes to keep the govt open, budget, foreign aide while MAGA obstructs.

As people have stated unthread, you are numb by design. This is Steve Bannon’s plan of flood zone with 💩it’s Working. Turn off TV, read the papers. don’t get sucked into the circus news. And again as many people have suggested, find a way up take action, even if it’s just to write 5 postcards a week. It will make you feel better.

I get it. I’ve been there with you. It is hard until remind myself why I’m feeling this way. This is how authoritarians take over and I’ll be damned if I let them take over my country.

Anonymous wrote:Not numb, just given up. You want a Trump, you can have him and all that comes with it for the next four years. We get the government we deserve.

So none of this affects you? Good for you, I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:Not numb, just given up. You want a Trump, you can have him and all that comes with it for the next four years. We get the government we deserve.

This is OP - and jesus, no, I do not want a Trump. I want anything but a Trump. It's the enormity of the horror ahead of us, and every day leading up to it, that is making me numb - not my secret desire for the transgressive disgusting thing. I want things to be normal. I just want things to be normal.

They are jot going to be normal. The average voter only cares about inflation and illegals. Abortion, pollution, guns, craziness? They don't care at that level.

OP - I get where you are coming from but I think it’s super important to understand why 50% of the country supports Trump. “Normal” for you (and me) is not being understood the same way by these people. It’s easy to dismiss this 50% as stupid but that’s a misstake IMO. I think the Democrats need to offer candidates who don’t talk down to people, don’t frame their opinions as dumb, try to address their issues, and be confident in reasssing policies that are not working.

Anonymous wrote:I can feel it setting in.

I started thinking about this yesterday, when I realized there had barely been any reaction to Florida's six week abortion ban going into effect - and I live in Florida. The stupid gd Alito flag thing. The polls showing this race so dismally close that I can't even believe it - while young leftists are trying to make sure Trump wins. THAT GUY.

I feel like the thing that people have been warning about is finally happening to me - I'm starting to tune out. I'm just so numb now.

Are you feeling that way? How are you overcoming it? I feel like now is the time we need to be most fired up - and I am just so tired. It's been 10 years of this now.

I just don't care anymore. People are stupid. The whole circus is getting old.

Anonymous wrote:Not numb, just given up. You want a Trump, you can have him and all that comes with it for the next four years. We get the government we deserve.

This is OP - and jesus, no, I do not want a Trump. I want anything but a Trump. It's the enormity of the horror ahead of us, and every day leading up to it, that is making me numb - not my secret desire for the transgressive disgusting thing. I want things to be normal. I just want things to be normal.

Not numb, just given up. You want a Trump, you can have him and all that comes with it for the next four years. We get the government we deserve.

All part of the plan. Lull them into a state of stupor, unable to tell what is fact and what is fiction. It was all working so well. But then they crossed the line, the finish line.

Now that boys are holding records in swim and track meets designed for women the house of cards is beginning to fall. The “unwoke” have awakened and country has begun a slow steady return to normal.

Anonymous wrote:I can feel it setting in.

I started thinking about this yesterday, when I realized there had barely been any reaction to Florida's six week abortion ban going into effect - and I live in Florida. The stupid gd Alito flag thing. The polls showing this race so dismally close that I can't even believe it - while young leftists are trying to make sure Trump wins. THAT GUY.

I feel like the thing that people have been warning about is finally happening to me - I'm starting to tune out. I'm just so numb now.

Are you feeling that way? How are you overcoming it? I feel like now is the time we need to be most fired up - and I am just so tired. It's been 10 years of this now.

I'm also surprised at how easily people seem to be fooled by political propaganda. It seems the science if persuasion has surpassed our abilty to think objectively. They use our weaknesses and unfulfilled desires against us.

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Anonymous wrote:OP and anyone else numb, consider signing up to volunteer with this group. Do more, worry less.

https://www.dothemostgoodmoco.org/

DoTheMostGood (DTMG) is a grassroots organization based in Montgomery County, MD with members across the county. We unite like-minded people and partner organizations in political action and civic engagement to further inclusive, progressive values locally and nationally.

Progressives hate women now, so this won’t work for me.

They “hate women” less than the Rs.

I don’t think I believe that any more. I think both major political parties have embraced hating women.

I think you’re the kind of Republican who has made the OP numb.