It's also a story you tell yourself, which is only as true as much as you believe it. Why do you hold onto that story? Why not make up a different, perhaps more positive story? It'll only be as true/false as the one you currently tell yourself.

"BuT tHe MaRkEtS!!" - My finance brother who has only benefitted from things getting worse for the rest of us.

Who is telling you that you need to meet a certain criteria, other than yourself?

So what do you propose people do then?

Thank you mushrooms, for teaching me that both my happiness and my anxieties are based on the made up stories I tell myself.

What does "adequate" mean? Serious question.

Meow.

Imagine fighting and risking your life in a foreign country on behalf of a pedophile.

Gaza is the testing grounds for what life is about to be like in the West. Starvation will be used as a weapon eventually, and who's gonna stop them?

The 'based' part wasn't that they showed up to protest. It was that they potentially sacrificed their job, endangered their own comfort and security, to stand up for a moral code and take a side. Something that escapes centrists/fascists.

He stood up to American traitors better than any American ever did.

Ah yes, because a video of a Nazi salute isn't antisemetic but a jewish college student protesting apartheid and wearing a keffiyeh is! What a time to be alive!