This is what it must have felt like to normal people in Germany before the Nazi took power. Sometimes Anxiety is appropriate.
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2016 set off my ptsd something horrible. I don't have the healthiest coping methods, but I have the tastiest.
I hold on to the thought that no matter what happens in this election Trump is out of the politics for good in 2028.
Hopefully he'll be in a jail cell by then. Or dead.
Hah hah. SC go brrrrr
Haha Congress go burrrrr. If Democrats can get control at any rate.
I've been doing well at distracting myself but the closer it gets the more anxiety breaks through. This week has been rough with Internet and power outages, right now I'm in the dark on dial-up speed mobile data and crawling out of my skin.
Because it's not fucking okay. I'm not okay.
One of our local races is just as important as the presidency, if not more so because a loss would shatter our blue bubble protections from the Cheeto.
I'm so very very very very very worried.
Same. Hope-posting is my best way to deal with it
Having been through a few rigged elections myself, I think it will be business as usual. Social media has a tendency of exaggerating things out of proportion. This creates anxiety and helps people unsee the bullshit. I highly doubt that it’s the president who reigns this huge country, I’m convinced it’s all for show, so that we don’t get our pitchforks.
I highly doubt that it’s the president who reigns this huge country, I’m convinced it’s all for show, so that we don’t get our pitchforks.
It's not going to just be the president if Trump wins. You need to read about Project 2025. It's a very well-thought-out plan for a complete right wing takeover of the entirety of the U.S. government.
I honestly believed 2020 would be the end of it. I thought 4 years would be enough time to prosecute him for his crimes, and legally disqualify him from taking office again.
That we're back here, now, and it's still too close to call, it makes me dread the future even if we win.
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Yes, since if Trump takes it I will lose access to my meds and probably die. It's fucking scary.
I’m in a very similar position. Major preexisting condition which requires expensive care for the rest of my life, 10 years max of productivity left in me. No country would have me, and all I want to do is flee. Unless a miracle happens next week, but I’m honestly quite pessimistic.
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And it won't even be over on Tuesday no matter who wins.
I feel this part the most. Recent elections have obviously been chaos. But the dread of what could happen afterward has me stressed more than anything else. I'm looking forward to the political adds being over and all of the junk mail (I live in a swing state). But those are just noise compared to the potential social/economic fallout that feels like it's looming in the distance.
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