Most people are worried about Trump becoming president, and I can understand that. What I’m currently concerned about is that, if the libertarian party is able to achieve the 5% benchmark but the green party doesn’t, we are going to have three right-wing, corporatist parties next election cycle (republican, libertarian, and neoconservative/democrat) and progressives will be virtually screwed. This election made it clear that the democratic party doesn’t give a shit about its left-wing supporters, and the United States is already sooo conservative in comparison to the rest of the world…
There are ways to combat a Trump presidency if he did make it into office because he doesn’t have unchecked power; the other branches would likely shut down pretty much anything he’d try to do (much like the Republicans have promised to do if Hillary wins, and like they’ve done to Obama). But if progressives have to struggle against potentially 3 different right-wing parties, without ballot access or federal funding, we’re done.
Really understood what it was like to have anxiety. Until this past month.. And I’m sure even now I don’t fully understand. Literally, if it can go wrong it will go wrong. That’s just kinda how my life’s always been, but this month has been especially like that. Every teeny tiny thing sets me off emotionally. I feel like I’m constantly at my breaking point and I’m scared to drive, to ride in a car, to go to work, to basically leave my house because every time I do something happens. I feel like everything in my life is completely out of my control. I’m a sitting duck just waiting for the next bad thing to happen. I’ve never really had a panic attack until recently. It’s impossible for me to relax about anything. I feel so up tight and freaked out all the time. I’ve prob never had this much emotion in my life ever before because I’m just not an emotional person. I keep trying to tell my self to calm down and slow down and things will just start looking up. But they aren’t. And I really don’t know what to do about that. This is the first time ever that I can’t sleep anymore because of this jittery nauseous feeling I keep getting just sitting here thinking about all the things I need to be doing or bettering or changing. And idk how to do it all. Sometimes it just makes me feel better to put it out in the world.. And just let it go. So that’s what I’m going to try.