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In 2020, I was telling everyone that I could see the orange bad setting the stage to lie about the election. I was horribly depressed and anxious. I kept refusing to admit that I was depressed, because admitting it would make it real. I was falling apart.
I eventually got on an anti-depressant, the same one that I'd taken five years earlier before I managed to pull my shit together. I'm still taking it because the world still sucks. But I'm fairly checked out on the plans to do 2020 again. I feel like they'll be even less successful because everyone knows exactly what they're gonna do. They've passed some laws, sure, but they're gonna get called out to the bitter end.
We're in trouble. I believe this will become a fascist state during my lifetime. But I don't think it'll be in this round. I'm voting against the orange bad and encouraging others to do the same. The threat is real, but this isn't going to keep me up between now and then. Probably some stress between November and January, I expect.
Fuck Trump. Fuck repubs. Fuck maga.
If it helps with your outlook at all, fascist elements in our government (right-wing, naturally) have been trying and failing to do this shit since the end of WWII. It's very cyclical, and this is the first real chance they've gotten a second try at whatever the flavor of the decade platform is. Red Scare parts I & II, Vietnam, Oil Crisis of the 70's, and the Cold War of the 80's, Satanic Panic, and skipping some all the way to the Tea Party bullshit.
Their entire mindset is just finding something that scares enough people to get elected, then shovel their attempt at moral superiority down everyone's throats. That's the platform. It takes hold for a few years then it fails, and the left side of things enjoys a few terms of progress. Trump floundering is a good thing. Trump failing again will push these assholes back into their caves for another decade.