This hit hard. Friday was a stark signal that we are becoming more like Russia daily and I've had to spend too much time trying to emotionally process that since.

The ego goes with the hands.

No, he deserves no fucks.

Personally, I'm working on accepting feeling alone in an area where speaking out could threaten my family's safety and my job. I speak up here because no one knows I'm here. And liberalism has a strong component of live and let live.

Agreed, but I can't say I don't understand the apathy. Watching neighbors and family vote against their own interests hurts the mind.

We aren't and you should distance yourselves for safety. We have faced nothing significant in years. Small problems and victories are conflated and spun up. We're isolated and fed a narrative of exceptionalism. Anyone facing real suffering is ignored and blamed. Ignorance is tolerated.

Ignorance, apathy, egotism, and evangelical Christianity. We do not cultivate responsibility, we cultivate followers and fear.

Regardless, we're not doing anything significant to stop and remove him so he might as well have.

And arming will lead to more death and no one wants that, but it may happen. Everyone opposed to Trump is having to judge what they are willing to sacrifice, how to be brave, and if we can forgive those in our community for their stupidity.

There is a growing resistance, albeit slow moving. And there are few elected democrat leaders that seem to have a spine. There will be more protests, but a lot of liberals are waiting to see if Trump voters will grow a brain cell and until then are willing to let everyone suffer.

"Flip it over" was my first thought too. Thank you!

Wear colors and outfits of support for Ukraine, for LGBTQ+, for organizations and persons affected. REPRESENT. And Either don't attend or make a show of walking out. Possibly have an alternative event and fundraise for causes that matter.