You already used that “woefully unreliable observers” line. Try to come up with something different, please, because you’re getting awfully boring repeating the same stuff.

It’s not a “sense of fear” so much as it is actual fear, felt by many people in the country.

Thanks for mansplaining science to me and also trying to invalidate people’s well reasoned thoughts. You realize you’re speaking annecdotally too, don’t you? Unless you’re ready to provide me a list of studies proving whatever it is you’re tying to prove.

In a scientific double blind study, maybe. Different situations call for different processes. The fact that the military is not a pro-Trump monolith is, in fact, important information.

Jesus Christ, what is your goddamn point?

What the hell are you saying? Science is work done by PEOPLE. The same people you’re claiming are unreliable. Unless science exists in a realm beyond the fallibility of the people that create it? Is that what you’re suggesting? I honestly can’t wrap my brain around the contradiction of your chain of thoughts.

Future historians are going to be very, very confused when they see voters on both sides taking for granted how much of this is about race, but the media exclusively fixated on “economic insecurity”.

The only thing that has changed, if you could call it change, is the fact that what’s coming could negatively impact white people (rolling back abortion rights impacts white folks, as will the elimination of the ACA).

Same. I’m a black women who has always lived in majority white communities and I’ve seen and heard plenty of racist and sexist shit. I saw through Trump on day 1 and his Mexican immigrant rapist comments (heck, even before that with the birtherism), and even I underestimated the resolve of white people. And I’m not…

Thanks, friend. I had a lot of faith in the American model. I immigrated to this country because of it. I wanted to participate in the melting pot experiment so bad.

I’m still at rage as well. I’ve never had a lot of faith in my fellow Americans, but apparently the little I did have was WILDLY inflated.

What it was was a welding shut of any possible back door. It was a people who believed so strongly that their leaders did not have their best interests in mind, that their leaders did not respect them nor were those leaders worthy of respect. That paper was a declaration from a people saying “You do not represent us,…

It feels like back then, President’s did not mettle in people’s lives. I have a uterus and I rely on the ACA. I’m screwed.

Yes. The ACA legit saved my mom’s life

I appreciate the attempt at context, but these presidents were around pre-nuclear weapons and pre-global warming. The worst case scenario is just so much worse now.

It depends what you mean by “America”. Americans with life threatening conditions who lose their insurance may very well NOT survive this. Americans who have their status in this country challenged may very well NOT thrive. American kids who get shot as a result of a “stop and frisk” gone wrong will NOT grow.

I’m not hoping for ‘survival’. I’ve seen dogs get run over by cars who ‘survive’.  

Yes, so irrational to point out that my empathy and pity for a human doesn’t end just because they work on the political campaign of a father who is the exact person who victimized them and their mother. So irrational. How do I function?

Uhh. No. Marla didn’t “get her ass knocked up.” Trump knocked her up. Women don’t “get themselves pregnant.” Some tool who refused to wear a condom did.