I still think this and I try to keep it in mind even while 80% of my feed is people expressing outrage and vitriol at anyone who isn’t wholeheartedly promoting some specific opinion about the best path forward for the world
Everyone is angry about the world and scared about the future and defensive on account of being pretty sure (correctly or not) that someone else is blaming them for something terrible and I don’t know if any of that will help but it’s probably useful to acknowledge what’s happening and breathe a bit
I don’t really want to armchair-psychoanalyze people but I swear I haven’t seen folks so constantly and universally marinating in their own stress hormones since like April 2020
My therapist earned his pay trying to talk me down this week. And purely anecdotal but I feel like people are even *more* scared of this election's results than in 2020.
Can confirm...if only from my own pure anecdotes. By this point 4 years ago we were in the middle of a plague. The "worst" most could imagine had already happened in March/April/May. Now our "worst" filters are all recalibrated from that, plus four years of downward spiraling.
It's really bad. Rationally I still feel like most factors are in Biden's favor - even not calculating in Trump's other legal hurdles and the fact he'll probably be sentenced in September even with the Supreme Court's shenanigans - but my brain keeps "doompilling" me.
Personally, I feel like there's no more rational an action then preparing for the worst. But again, depressive with only anecdotes to draw upon talking here. Not in much of a position to offer succor.
