if trump steals the white house again i'll be going to buy more security cameras and guns before they add an "acceptable voting history" requirement on those purchases
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I've literally been registered as "independent" since his first win because I could see the bloodlust even then. I'd rather not have myself on a registered "enemies list"... :(
I used to be worried about having to idle on a hill while driving a manual transmission vehicle. Like backsweat.
But I got used to it. Time and practice. You start to see all the subtle motions and patterns; you start to know what you didn't know you didn't know.
Now it is just a basic part of the driving experience. It's a road condition, like weather. Voting, especially in federal elections and especially the general one every four years for president, is not the only or even the main course of politics.
Same story with parallel parking--which would be, I dunno: primary voting in this metaphor. Where the promise of a better way gets crammed between two other poorly parked cars and you always end up a few inches too far from the curb.
Not great... I'm not a US citizen yet so voting isn't possible. Only thing I could do is vote with my feet... so I moved out of Texas for good earlier this year. I think my current location is as safe as it gets in regards to avoiding political violence (since I'm not exactly in a group that the right isn't threatening) so there's that
Other than that? Nothing... If the worst happens I'll just hole-up in the building and ask my boss for permission to work from home
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I'm playing a lot of pinball, but that really hasn't changed.
Woo, pinball!
Stay busy. Get your to-do list done. Take overtime shifts. Spend the angsty energy so it doesn’t turn inward and render your gut into sieve.