Keef
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I just don't want you to be like some friends of mine who are constantly enveloped in stress and panic and allow it to spoil their lives. Using this as motivation to work toward goals is one thing, allowing it to make you miserable is another. Your words have been reading to me like the latter.I appreciate the sentiment. And I applaud you for telling me what you're thinking. The desire to cling to hope that something will work out, or something will save us, or somehow everything is going to be ok is very normal and human and calming. And it's what keeps you in place and screwed when something like this happens.
I know you don't think it can happen to you, nobody does. It's happening.
People can't act rationally until they stop freaking out. When dumb things happen, you gotta quickly come to terms with it and start planning. Unfortunately I'm not a political expert so I am mostly along for the ride, and it could be a wild one - remember Trump's idea to privatize the FAA from years ago? Congress blocked it, the industry wanted it blocked, pilots and controllers were terrified of it, and all that from an industry that is like 80% conservative. Most pilots voted for Trump and when he said "privatize the FAA" they all crapped their pants. It could effect me bigly, but I have to rely on experts to figure out what to do about it.Why four years? What happens in four years?
What ideas are going to be brewed after January? The time to act is now, before he's inaugurated. That's as clear to me as it can possibly be.
Parties... what... no... there are no candidates or parties anymore. I mean sure, we can pretend that the American political system is intact or something if that helps people make peace.
When I said "deal with it" I meant emotionally, not practically. I think most practical things that could be done to "deal with it", including any of the pending litigation, will cause unrest. If any landmark legal action is taken in the next two months, legit or not, it will be a problem and will further break trust in the system. Besides whatever proceedings are already ongoing, I don't think anything else is warranted without causing other unforeseen problems, and historically acts of desperation like that tend to spawn even more reactionary measures than they were trying to solve in the first place. Again, the 1930s offer so many examples of the situation we're in.No, we're screwed for sure. It's time to deal with it.
It would cause a ton of civil unrest. But it might force the country to finally say something is not ok. I'd prefer biden take the fall rather than kamala on that one though. He might too.
I'm not expert, I don't know what to do. The Democratic party is useless because their voters won't vote unless the leader is a once-in-a-generation savant. The Republican party is about to become a sweeping entity. Single-party government has virtually existed in the US before, in the 1890s, when the Republican party absolutely dominated, but things evolved. I think the most likely scenario currently is that no matter how powerful the Republicans get under Trump, the party is likely to fracture.
We need to wait to see what our smartest and most motivated people come up with. I'm not one of them.
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