scared

[redbird]

@deray said yesterday (before we saw the disaster) that the work continues, and Joe Hill told us "Don't mourn, organize," but I'm scared and I don't know where to start.

In the short term, I don't know whether to hunker down and try to save money, or splurge on the theory that the world is ending anyway.

I hope everyone reading this are decent people, but I will so fucking ban trolls or anyone who tells me I am being ridiculous.

Comments

[premchaia_pre4]

Huff.

Good thoughts.

I'm stuck in Texas, so I likely can't do much for you from here, but if you need to commandeer anyone on this side of the country, feel free to poke me just in case, if you judge it worthwhile.

[green_knight]

You are not ridiculous. You are *so* not ridiculous. I am sitting on the other side of the Atlantic and I am fucking scared.

And yet, the people of Britain didn't just vote the Tories in the first time round (that was reasonable, and expected), but voted for them AGAIN after it was clear just how much they'd run this country into the ground (they are perfectly on schedule for that, we now have 28% of children living in poverty), but voted to leave the European Union. And after the Brexit vote, my confidence in the common sense of people in general went straight through the floor, so that I am scared, but no longer surprised.

[julian]

Personally, I'd hunker, because nothing is forever, and the next 4 years are going to be chaotic.

But I'm scared too, so I don't know.

[lone_lilly]

We are right to be terrified. I'm sorry this is the reality we live in. <3<3

[bibliofile]

Not even close to ridiculous.

The work always continues.

[flippac]

I figure we save as best we can. There's always some good to do with it.

(Yeah, I know I'm not in the US. Planning on doing good for at least one person who is while surviving things in the UK)

[redbird]

Also, the things I'm worrying about might affect anyone on the planet.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

You're not being ridiculous at all.

I spent last night consoling my friend Dro, a gay American living in the south of the US, who is terrified about your country's future. Meanwhile another American friend believes that the US is now so divided that civil war might break out within the next few years.

I really have no words for the Trump situation, except that it's more of the same right-wing lies and bullshit that led to people in my country voting for so-called "Brexit". Big steaming turds all around. Actively lying to the electorate should be a criminal offense, in my opinion.

Still. You've got through terrible presidents before, and survived.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

Not this terrible.

Normally, I would derive hope from our government's system of checks and balances, but the Congress is set to be Republican for at least another two years, and the Supreme Court (oh please no) stands to become conservative for generations to come.

My only hope now comes from the fact that most Republican politicians are as horrified by Trump as the rest of us, so maybe Congress will continue to do what is been doing, and stymie the president for another four years.

In short, the best we can hope for is stasis. The worst? Xenophobic social policies, increased economic imbalance, revocation of civil rights, accelerated trashing of our planet, civil war, world war.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I'm scared too.
*hugs you*

[redbird]

All of this. I read (in the esteemed Journal of I Forgot My Sources, again) that in the last days of the Nixon administration, his subordinates quietly took the nuclear button away from him when he got drunk at night. But that kind of thought isn't much to hang our hopes on.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

In the short term, I don't know whether to hunker down and try to save money, or splurge on the theory that the world is ending anyway.


Yes, precisely.