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Anonymous wrote:I'm a democrat and am depressed, feeling hopeless and angry. But is this what it felt like to the other side when Obama was president? B/c if it was, I can feel better. I remember conservatives crying bloody murder but obviously they survived it.

I think it's time for you to decide if you need to be this emotionally invested in politics. The super invested are like soccer hooligans to most people. It's fun to a point but it's weird. Find something else to love.

+100. This is excellent advice and people really should take it to heart. Politics is not a sport nor should it really even be a hobby.

It’s all fun and games until your same-sex marriage is dissolved. Or you need reproductive care that’s denied. Or crops fail due to extreme heat waves. Federal policies have real world consequences.

Correct. And the country just told the Democratic Party that it’s policies are bad for our safety, health, pocketbook… basically everything. And now trump is bringing in people to turn over the rotting apple cart marriage of the Deep state and special interests. It’s awesome. So glad. And I’m a federal employee who witnesses the waste first hand every day. Cannot wait. No more political friends making a fortune selling DEI training to the government. No more FDA employees revolving door into big pharma and into feed additives. No more revolving door of defense contractors into DoD policy positions. No more hand outs to environmental start ups while ignoring real things that work that can help the environment. NO MORE buying votes via student loan hand outs. Your team is OUT!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a democrat and am depressed, feeling hopeless and angry. But is this what it felt like to the other side when Obama was president? B/c if it was, I can feel better. I remember conservatives crying bloody murder but obviously they survived it.

I think it's time for you to decide if you need to be this emotionally invested in politics. The super invested are like soccer hooligans to most people. It's fun to a point but it's weird. Find something else to love.

+100. This is excellent advice and people really should take it to heart. Politics is not a sport nor should it really even be a hobby.

It’s all fun and games until your same-sex marriage is dissolved. Or you need reproductive care that’s denied. Or crops fail due to extreme heat waves. Federal policies have real world consequences.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a democrat and am depressed, feeling hopeless and angry. But is this what it felt like to the other side when Obama was president? B/c if it was, I can feel better. I remember conservatives crying bloody murder but obviously they survived it.

I think it's time for you to decide if you need to be this emotionally invested in politics. The super invested are like soccer hooligans to most people. It's fun to a point but it's weird. Find something else to love.

+100. This is excellent advice and people really should take it to heart. Politics is not a sport nor should it really even be a hobby.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t vote for O the second time around. I started to feel divisive vibes and it turned me off. The POTUS is supposed to protect it’s citizens, not divide them.

Like when the guy yelled at him that he was a liar ?

Anonymous wrote:^^^PP we live in completely different worlds. I don't even know where to begin to understand your viewpoint. I fear for my country because you just elected someone who is going to burn this country to the ground and make us unsafe in the world. I would sit back with popcorn but this is too serious not to be worried. He is an incompetent narcissist who seems to have no consequences for any of his actions. I am sick thinking about what this term will bring. If he manages to follow through on his promises, this country is going to be destroyed to such a degree that I don't think that the next person elected will be able to put it back together.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a democrat and am depressed, feeling hopeless and angry. But is this what it felt like to the other side when Obama was president? B/c if it was, I can feel better. I remember conservatives crying bloody murder but obviously they survived it.

No.

First term Obama was pretty moderate.

It was about 2014 when the left started going off the rails. That was around the time of the whole “hands up don’t shoot” media fabrication, fanning the flames of riots, and justifying them, all based on easily uncovereable lies. Most of the police shootings cases had totally warped coverage but that one set the precedent for what was to come.

Then Trump came on to scene and while he wasn’t my favorite, you all went nuts. Illegal wiretapping, fake dossiers, collusion hoaxes, lying on fisa warrants, insane media coverage, pretextual impeachments. Then covid lunacy and summer of love riots (more media and cultural lunacy about that), social media censorship (inc. govt agencies intervening), vaccine mandates, etc.

I won’t even get into the last four years because you all lost me in 2020 which is why fundamentally I didn’t really care about Jan 6 (let’s not even get into FBI agent provocateurs and unexplained pipe bombs and just assume the narrative is true). Because by that point if I’m going to live in a country with constant media lies, deep state actors breaking the law and never getting in trouble and social media censorship, I can see why people would start to go nuts.

We are in a different world now. And yes, Republican politicians and their base are *super pissed* about the way the last 10 years went down and ready to make sure it ends now.

Which will be good for the country in the long run but yes there will absolutely be some big shakeups (mass firings, dumps of declassified docs, new legislation) before that happens.

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t vote for O the second time around. I started to feel divisive vibes and it turned me off. The POTUS is supposed to protect it’s citizens, not divide them.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a democrat and am depressed, feeling hopeless and angry. But is this what it felt like to the other side when Obama was president? B/c if it was, I can feel better. I remember conservatives crying bloody murder but obviously they survived it.

No.

First term Obama was pretty moderate.

It was about 2014 when the left started going off the rails. That was around the time of the whole “hands up don’t shoot” media fabrication, fanning the flames of riots, and justifying them, all based on easily uncovereable lies. Most of the police shootings cases had totally warped coverage but that one set the precedent for what was to come.

Then Trump came on to scene and while he wasn’t my favorite, you all went nuts. Illegal wiretapping, fake dossiers, collusion hoaxes, lying on fisa warrants, insane media coverage, pretextual impeachments. Then covid lunacy and summer of love riots (more media and cultural lunacy about that), social media censorship (inc. govt agencies intervening), vaccine mandates, etc.

I won’t even get into the last four years because you all lost me in 2020 which is why fundamentally I didn’t really care about Jan 6 (let’s not even get into FBI agent provocateurs and unexplained pipe bombs and just assume the narrative is true). Because by that point if I’m going to live in a country with constant media lies, deep state actors breaking the law and never getting in trouble and social media censorship, I can see why people would start to go nuts.

We are in a different world now. And yes, Republican politicians and their base are *super pissed* about the way the last 10 years went down and ready to make sure it ends now.

Which will be good for the country in the long run but yes there will absolutely be some big shakeups (mass firings, dumps of declassified docs, new legislation) before that happens.

Completely agree. The left has no idea how bananas they’ve gone. They have no idea how many bridges they burned to get us to the place we are today where Republicans won all three and also the on the popular vote.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a democrat and am depressed, feeling hopeless and angry. But is this what it felt like to the other side when Obama was president? B/c if it was, I can feel better. I remember conservatives crying bloody murder but obviously they survived it.

No.

First term Obama was pretty moderate.

It was about 2014 when the left started going off the rails. That was around the time of the whole “hands up don’t shoot” media fabrication, fanning the flames of riots, and justifying them, all based on easily uncovereable lies. Most of the police shootings cases had totally warped coverage but that one set the precedent for what was to come.

Then Trump came on to scene and while he wasn’t my favorite, you all went nuts. Illegal wiretapping, fake dossiers, collusion hoaxes, lying on fisa warrants, insane media coverage, pretextual impeachments. Then covid lunacy and summer of love riots (more media and cultural lunacy about that), social media censorship (inc. govt agencies intervening), vaccine mandates, etc.

I won’t even get into the last four years because you all lost me in 2020 which is why fundamentally I didn’t really care about Jan 6 (let’s not even get into FBI agent provocateurs and unexplained pipe bombs and just assume the narrative is true). Because by that point if I’m going to live in a country with constant media lies, deep state actors breaking the law and never getting in trouble and social media censorship, I can see why people would start to go nuts.

We are in a different world now. And yes, Republican politicians and their base are *super pissed* about the way the last 10 years went down and ready to make sure it ends now.

Which will be good for the country in the long run but yes there will absolutely be some big shakeups (mass firings, dumps of declassified docs, new legislation) before that happens.

Anonymous wrote:I'm a democrat and am depressed, feeling hopeless and angry. But is this what it felt like to the other side when Obama was president? B/c if it was, I can feel better. I remember conservatives crying bloody murder but obviously they survived it.

Anonymous wrote:Things are going to be better. We have an incoming president potentially reining in big pharmaceutical choke hold on health care and the food industry. We have a president looking at completely abusive interest rates associated with credit cards. We have a president willing to look at the federal government and its size and lack of efficiency and saying we can do better. We have a president coming in who will prioritize Veterans over illegal aliens. I am super excited and happy about the future under Trump!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a democrat and am depressed, feeling hopeless and angry. But is this what it felt like to the other side when Obama was president? B/c if it was, I can feel better. I remember conservatives crying bloody murder but obviously they survived it.

I think it's time for you to decide if you need to be this emotionally invested in politics. The super invested are like soccer hooligans to most people. It's fun to a point but it's weird. Find something else to love.

+100. This is excellent advice and people really should take it to heart. Politics is not a sport nor should it really even be a hobby.

This isn’t really just about politics. It’s people’s lives. Most of us want to be able to ignore the government and get on with things, and Trump makes us feel like we have to be vigilant to protect ourselves from his administration.

Why not just try to log off for a while and go about your life and see how it goes? I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised that the world won’t come to an end and you can rest assured that if something really bad happens you will still find out about it.

+1. It's the scaremongering on the Internet making you feel this way. Try subscribing to a slower news magazine (is there a liberal slanted version of The Economist, perhaps?) and read it once a week to stay informed, but ignore the rest.

Anonymous wrote:Just get on with your life people. Who the president is and their policies don't really affect real people much day to day.