(#5820) The dark days of trump are looming

      A leader should be bringing people together. The people who follow that leader should be of the same mindset. We either help people or we don't. With Joe Biden we had a president who helped people. With trump about to come into the presidency we have someone who is more focused on land grabs and denying people help. The difference will be stark and no one who voted for trump should be immune to what damage he is about to unleash on our society. Of course the wealthy will be beneficiaries but few others. Those who are in the working middle poor class who voted for trump are about to begin to understand the warnings we democrats had been shouting out loud.
     I am not trying to convey a "I told you so" bragging. I am letting you know that all the signs of this happening were in plain sight and yet those working middle poor class voters chose to ignore them for whatever selfish reason. Well, the shit is about to hit the fan so my suggestion now is to take cover and find a way to survive as quickly as possible. We have all been taken in by con men/women at different times in our lives so I don't hold any animosity toward those who were duped by trump and a wildly dishonest republican party. We all make mistakes but now we must find a way to rectify or minimize those mistakes because the consequences will be unforgiving.
     I think of our nation as a person who is into self harm. First, we fail to appreciate knowledge and how it can shape our lives for the better. Second, we too often deny our own best common sense instincts out of some allegiance to the illusion of grandeur. We wrongly put ourselves on a higher level than others simply because we were born as a different race and/or in a different geographic locale. I am an amateur in this next regard but this is what may be possible. As to the self harm, when we don't engage with all of our communities and know the suffering and pain that is out there we substitute the self harm as a way to feel something and therefore consciously justify our existence. The problem of course is that the illusion that comes with self harm is distorted and away from reality and the best of what we deny ourselves to become.