Give Yourself a Break
Stressing Over the Idea That Trump is Going to Break the World is Going to Make You Sick.
There is a video of some in San Francisco apparently releasing a “primal scream” over the inauguration of Trump today.
It believe it would be of great benefit to these individuals, and others who feel this way, to look clearly at what you're seeing, instead. There is a new President, your President. Perhaps things in our country will improve, but rejecting that possibility out of hand is to reject your own future.
Until Trump proves that your fears are founded, these fears, and screams, and anxiousness, and stress to which you are subjecting yourself are only going to make you ill, unfortunately. Why not sit back and see what the man and his cabinet can do. Let's just be Americans, and not devotees of these two parties.
I personally think both parties are very flawed, which is why I just look at the individual running when I vote, and not their party. I'm just saying it's worth a try. I know what it feels like to be in a whirlpool of resentment and fear. It will damage you on the inside. And that whirlpool is often based on ideas and not reality.
Just try the idea that it's going to be OK. Just as an experiment.
Very kind. I think they need mental help. We had to put up with an eggplant for 4 years who did things I disagreed with vociferously on a regular basis and I didn’t throw tantrums. I went to work and got on with my life. Hoping for change in 2025.
in my entire lifetime i have never witnessed people no matter who was in office be so publically performatively unhinged. something mental and destabilizing has swept across the country. i saw it happening on fb in 2015. watched my feed fill up with friends spewing the most hateful things about someone they never would meet. but,i also participated in a similar frenzy when obama ran against mccain. sitting at a friends house YELLING sneering at the tv every time the camera swung to mccain,i thought,WHY am i SO ANGRY!? i knew,i truly understood in that moment that i was not under my own sail which made it so much easier to discern when that same sickness reared its head in trumps campaign. your message here is on point,justine. self regulate or perish.