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As much as I agree with you, I do not believe it will immediately be fixed if Harris is elected. Some polls show that she will win both the Senate and the House, but that's a best case scenario and may not happen. Regardless America will still have to contend with the culture and mindset that fostered Trump and his ability to run as the Republican candidate for 3 straight elections. And don't even get me started with the Supreme Court. I genuinely hope that Harris winning will be a turning point for American politics to stop leaning so right, but this will take years at minimum.
Reading a bit between the lines it sounds like you've been very negatively impacted by certain policies that have been enacted. If this is the case, I just wanted to offer my sympathies. Hopefully it gets better for you soon.
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I do not believe it will immediately be fixed if Harris is elected.
That future was abandoned long ago.
Currently the fight is to keep the very ability to fix things at all, because the alternative is a future locked-into elitist hate.
It's going to take A Lot of work to correct the mountain of lies and then help the people dealing with the dawning realization of their patsy role in this. But, with luck, we'll have the ability to do that.
Sadly, this election doesn't end in two weeks if Trump loses... he'll keep it going until Harris is sworn in.
And in three years we'll probably start this bullshit all over again. Please, if you can, talk to your local state government about the national popular vote interstate compact.
I hate the sound of this fire alarm. It's way too noisy and stressful. I can't wait for it to stop ringing so I can get back to work.
After it's been playing for months? Yeah.
This will continue for months after the election. We're still talking about the last one. I don't mean this to be mean, but I really feel that you have to figure out a way to disconnect from it, emotionally. There will always be nasty people and crazies out there, that will never change. Politics just brings them out in droves. The real question is how you react to that and if you can come up with a way that is healthy for you. I don't know what the answer is for you, but there surely is one.
Me too. I just want it to be over at this piont, even though I am terrified of a Trump win. I'm going to vote early but this constant sense of creeping dread just won't go away.
Probably, you won't. After the 2020 elections, the tension did not decrease to the levels that were before the elections. It will be the same this time. But what's worst is that if Trump wins, there won't be any more elections - just like freedom of speech and many other democratic things. The United States will turn into what Russia has become over the last 30 years. And this is only in the best-case scenario. In the worst case, the political system of the Combine in Half-Life 2 will seem to you not an anti-utopian dictatorship but a very comfortable and even progressive form of social organization compared to what the Trumpists are achieving.
When fascists won in Germany, there was a force that could stop them, and eventually stopped them. If they win in the United States, no one will be able to stop them. Considering that they promise an isolationist policy, all sorts of predatory authoritarian and totalitarian regimes will suddenly feel like they can do anything - and this will start happening all over the world.
I hate this, but yeah, possible. Hopefully we have enough sanity at the top, and enough checks and balances in place, that he will not achieve his goals.
At least he isn't subtle.
Hope is an unattainable luxury in this situation. Eight years ago, I still didn't understand much of what would have clearly determined Trump as a personality prone to dictatorial-fascist tendencies until after 2016. If I had had the time and attention back then to understand where it would lead, it could have been prevented very easily by raising a huge fuss and scandal around political advertising on Facebook. This would have significantly disrupted the plans of hostile states for interfering in elections and ultimately led to different results in the 2016 elections. Unfortunately, at that time, I was a completely different person, focused on other things. That's why I did nothing. I simply hoped that everything would be fine.
I've made peace with either result. I'm definitely wanting for one side to win and I've already done my part by voting early... in a Red district in a Red state, so my vote is essentially meaningless anyways, though there's a local gerrymandering issue that hopefully gets through that can help. Otherwise, whatever happens, happens. As hard as it is to see positives, I've tried to think about what opportunities might be available should the unthinkable happen, there's some potential upsides for me personally, so there's that. The rest of the world will go to hell in a handbasket and we're all fucked, but there's the still the potential to find some personal benefit from it.
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They're probably a white, male landowner.