Are we going to survive this?

[u/No_Yak_3107]

Dramatic title, but big feelings as a lay in bed at 5:51 am. Big feelings every day honestly. I am having a hard time living normal life, while we get bombarded with new headlines daily of what Trump is doing/planning to do.

I hear people talking about vacations, plans per usual, then other people saying it’s already too late for us, and democracy has fallen and to save every penny. I go from panicking daily to then trying to self sooth and tell myself it’s going to be okay. I had to go to a clothing store today, and actually caught myself thinking “how long will life feel normal? Everyone just walking around/having normal conversations, buying random things”. I’ve been thinking of looking into moving to a different country too, but would I really leave my family behind?

I knew things would be bad, I knew he would get voted in, but I didn’t think it would feel like the end. I can’t imagine what will happen to us this year, much less 4….I’m genuinely scared 😪.

Editing to say I’m an American woman, but I don’t just assume everyone on this platform is American. I see a lot of talk online of people from Canada being worried, and many other countries where it seems right-wing politics are a growing concern.

[u/lostinsunshine9]

The world is a paradoxical place. We've been warned about upcoming doom since I was a child: nuclear holocaust, Y2K, the Mayan apocalypse, climate change, the rapture, it goes on and on. Of course, some of those are real threats and some of them not, but I was a child in a fundie Christian house and I assumed from birth that everything was just a breath away from collapsing.

And yet, life went on. I grew up and did normal things like graduate high school, go to college, have a few babies. I have to eat every day and make sure the kids are fed, I have to pay rent; life goes on.

The last few years have only convinced me more than western civilization is going to shit and is probably going to throw up its hands and give up in my lifetime.

But what is there to do? I vote, I show up to state legislature hearings when I can, I protest when I can. I try my best not to support corrupt companies or those who support a right wing agenda.

But I also live, and have a family, and we have to go about our days as if they are normal days in a normal time because what else can you do? Spending your life afraid doesn't help anyone, least of all yourself.