Stop trump,

[I_UndergroundPanther]

I feel like I am doomed, left as left can be,and I am horrified at what's going on in Portland. My body is not fit enough to fight, I am a free thinker,I bow to no one, no god. I have my mental health issues. I feel like I have a target on my head.

I am feeling a mixture of horror and rage. I want trump to stop. I want him and all that like him to be neutralized before trump sends those gestapo in Portland to other states
I feel that by November it will be too late to stop the fascist psychopaths.

Dems have been too kind to monsters,now the monsters have rigged the government. And they have no consicence or empathy to stop themselves or even see how hated and diseased they are.

I don't think the election matters to them because they have other more evil plans. We have to stop these plans.

If I end up caught by Trump's boogaloo bullies and if my body can't let me fight them, I'll just go away mentally until I kill myself and at least I will deny them whatever sick thrill they get with my suffering. I'm thinking contingency plan s now.

I'm having a hard time with all this shit. I am so pissed off, scared and alone and disgusted. I figure alot of people are feeling like this and having similar thoughts.
I just wish trump would stroke out. Barr would choke on a pork rind, McConnell would get hit by a bus... Lindsey would.. you get my drift.
If something does not stop them who will?

I want Biden and the Dems to stomp all these fascist psychopath fuckers into Oblivion.
Every R and every Ken and Karen..every boogaloo bastard we have tolerated psychopathy in our government for too long.
Excused them too many times let them control and take too much via thier corporations.

But how does one prepare emotionally or mentally for a fascist coup,during a pandemic,and a financial meltdown in a country with too many Karen's and Ken's goosetepping everywhere?

I just want it to stop and the people doing and rationalizing this shit reduced to silence, humiliation and powerlessness forever.

[Pachamama]

1. How you are feeling is completely justified and many of us feel the same way - but please don't....

...give up....



Yes, the shit is real and I will be the first to tell you I see exactly what you are seeing but I know that while so much of this is out of my control, there are things we can do that we do control.

The first is to please take care of yourself and the people you love and do what you can to care and nurture one another. Even if it’s small, even if it’s reaching out to a neighbor or friend - be there for one another and do what you can for each other. Take care the best you can for your health - both physically and mentally. Sleep and try to take a walk in nature if you can. I don’t know if there is anyone to talk to, but try to have contact with people and call a free counseling line if you feel desperate.

Support groups that are getting out the vote and registering people. Even if it sounds so simple, voting is the most important thing we can do. Protest if you see an opportunity to support your fellow citizens for what is right and against what isn’t.

There is strength in numbers and it’s important to not feel alone. You aren’t alone.

[kurtcagle]

2. Trump's not a fascist

He's a populist demagogue. Fascists typically want to burn down the existing system and replace it with an altogether different one - they're revolutionaries. Populists, on the other hand, are simply heads of cults of personality that want to control the existing structures - they're reactionaries. Fascists are mostly historical oddities, but populist demagogues are very often quite dangerous (think Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc.)

Semantics aside, I'm coming to believe that the dam is actually breaking against Trump at this point. Women, even the Karens that you reference, have kids and grandkids. They're beginning to see for themselves the effects of Covid-19, and they're thinking about what happens when their kids are forced to go back to school by late August, and they are becoming angry that their governors are not doing the right things and moving the classes online. All it will take will be will be the death of a couple of kids to the Coronavirus, and they will turn on Trump, even the most hardened evangelicals - I suspect you will also see a whole lot of divorces as these same women realize that they're married to assholes who put politics over their own children.

[Dem2theMax]

3. Keep talking.

I need to hear this stuff. I've been freaking out all day.