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I'm disappointed, confused, fearful, and angry at the outcome. My list of "why" is a mile long. Being positive feels impossible today in the face of what I feel is a disaster for our country and the world at large. I'm sitting with my feelings and hoping they will shift to a more positive place. My values won't change, but my ability to provide for myself materially may change significantly. I'm nearing 65. What will my insurance, my Social Security look like? My fear is deep-seated, not just about his re-election, but about the hordes of people with hatred in their heart who've been issued a new 4 year permit to be violent, anti-semitic, racist, and cruel. I appreciate your willingness to endure this next phase in our history, but I have to say, David, that you have resources I'll never have, and that will probably make your life a whole lot easier if you needed to leave, or protect yourself in some other way. That will not be the case for the majority of us. I mean this in no way as a criticism, it's just reality, should things get really bad.

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The truth is that outside the bubble people view trump very differently. They don’t believe the sexual violence accusation. They think 34 felony counts for cooking the books to pay a porn star is ridiculous. They don’t read The NY Times and if they did they wouldn’t believe much of it.

This is election is based on inflation and having no border policy. It’s also based on some of the most ridiculous ideas that the Democratic Party attached itself too. Like defund the police and the insane gender ideology, and identity politics. The word Latinx, sums it all up.

My advice. Oppose trump when he is bad and he is going to be. But quit the hysterics. And take a long hard look at the demographics of his win and learn from it.

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