I'm willing to admit

[angrychair]

That even more than last year, not really looking forward to next year.
Family is fine.
Job is fine
But to be honest I don't see anything positive next year for this country.
Republicans will drag this country down to new lows next year. And the years after that are looking even worse.

Sorry, not hopeful. Sad to be honest. My kids. My very young nephews and niece. They will be forced to grow old in a world controlled by christian religious extremists in a totalitarian dictatorship

Nope, not looking forward to this year at all.

[Meowmee]

1. If you can

Move to somewhere better.

[angrychair]

2. Lol...I live in the PNW

It's not my state...it's my country

[Meowmee]

7. I meant leave the country

[angrychair]

11. Would love to do that

Just finding a place that will let me move there.
Would prefer Europe or New Zealand. Immigration is very tough in most European countries. I'm in Information technology but so far found nothing.

[Meowmee]

13. I hope you find somewhere

Good luck

[Tree Lady]

3. I was telling my husband tonight I felt

Sort of same way. Our life is comfortable but with endless covid I feel stuck at home, its just not fun to go out anymore. We changed from hotel and travel to buying a rv this year and I rented a cabin on a island in Canada this summer. So we have that to get us out of house.

I keep busy with zoom meetings, classes and bookclubs. I walk daily.

But its not the same.

I said tonight I bet millions of Americans are feeling depressed about this endless nightmare we are going through. And that is without worrying about politics, the environment, too many guns, etc.

[CousinIT]

4. Ditto that. There is nothing or nobody that will hold accountable those..

...destroying our Democracy or those who planned and incited Jan 6th.

Republicans are dead serious that our Democracy is in grave peril (nevermind THEY are the reason it is)

Democrats seem (voters and electeds) OBLIVIOUS to the fact. And they have done NOTHING but cling to filibusters.

We're fucked. Thinks LOOK 'normal' sometimes, but we know they're NOT.

The nation, the planet are in an unstoppable death spiral. Those who can stop it, refuse. And for too long humanity and Americans diddled about doing something about RW extremism and about climate change. NOW, it's too late. The future is dismal.

[Kaleva]

5. Surviving climate change will probably be the biggest issue your nephews and niece will face.

[secondwind]

8. Am still very optimistic. I could not be any other way......

[Polybius]

12. Let's say the writing was on the wall and we were down by 10 in several races in late October

Would you still be optimistic?

[Busterscruggs]

9. It's hard to believe

That in a short 4 years, Trump was able to wreck the world's biggest economy, allow a global pandemic to spiral out of control and sow seeds of division to a level that this country has never witnessed before. I have always said that Republicans will be the end of our democracy. We may now be at the point of no return and even the absolute best democratic leadership like we have now won't be able to stop it.

[PatSeg]

10. I have good days and bad days

but today I'm not feeling terribly optimistic. There are too many mornings when reading the headlines feels like the opening to a disaster movie. If I hang in there though, I have good days when I am hopeful again.