I have to admit I am really scared

[YoshidaYui]

That Trump might win again. I don’t want to be deported nor lose my healthcare, cause its keeping me alive, Trump could change all that and if my Social Security is gone and everything else I could be homeless and than I would be dead. Please KAMALA bring in a blue Tsunami!!!

[cilla4progress]

1. I hear you, Yoshida!

If so, we will have good company.

I can't see the Cheneys, Kelly, Pence, Barbara Bush and others stick their neck out of they think the asshole is going to return to anything like a position of power...

[Wounded Bear]

2. Not going to belittle your concerns. I have some similar ones...

I live on my Social Security and depend on VA for my medical care. They could be on the hit parade as well if the Project 2025 bros take over.

But I've been focusing on the positive signs this last week. I think we are going to be OK.

Please hang in there. We're all in the same boat.

[Codifer]

15. I am

definitely in this boat. tsf will betray the old folks and vets..... social security and the VA only thing keeping me alive. If he wins I will start smoking my pipe again first thing cuz why the hell not.

Nothing will matter. No quarter will be given.

I will be eighty day after election..... a life sentence to me is a trifle. Kinda like a misdemeanor.

[Silver Gaia]

45. It's going to be OK.

You are not alone. We are in this together.

[Quixote1818]

3. I think it's going to be okay. The late polls are breaking our way. That means undecided voters are picking Harris

and I also think there will end up being a lot of new women voters this year giving even more breathing room. Harris has higher likability, is raising a lot more money and I just don't see how Trump has expanded his voter reach and has probably shrunk it. Their plan to get more young men to vote seems pretty dumb as it's pissing women off who are a larger and more consistent voting block and young men just aren't going to come out and they tend to be more liberal so Trump may be pushing more liberal males to vote for Harris than before.

[madaboutharry]

4. I'm scared too.

This election has been detrimental to my wellbeing.

I wake up early in the morning feeling fearful about what would happen if he, God forbid, wins.

You’re not alone. I think millions and millions of others feel the same way.

I don’t want to say everything is going to be okay because I’m kind of superstitious and believe, at least a little, in the Evil Eye.

[bdamomma]

18. Early morning too

with racing thoughts about those thugs, he has lined up. JD Vance, Ted Cruz, Elon. RFK Jr.
And what he will do to women. He's doing it now, punishing women.

I am really concerned, for us and the rest of the world.

[Dem4life1234]

55. The fact that this idiot considered running again

Tells me how low this country has sank.

The fact that the pig is a front runner of a major party, not one of those janky third parties, is disgusting.

Sick of the incels and racist trash in this country, this is all their fault.

[bdamomma]

56. Like the felon

said he loves the poorly educated.

When is this nightmare going to be over!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ms. Toad]

5. I'm cautiously optimistic.

I've been throwing cold water on all of the "the first thing President Harris should do . . . " posts as well as on those touting her being ahead in national polls. And I'm the first to remind people about 2016, when our over-confidence contributed to Trump being elected.

But even though I still expect this to be a nail biter, the direction of the polling trends gives me hope - as do the repeated racist/bigoted/autocratic comments made by Trump or his surrogates - which seem to be swaying undecided voters to Harris.

No one in my immediate family will be deported - but my daughter could well be without health insurance for her $200,000/year in medical bills. So I feel your fear. It is a terror I lived with each time there was yet another challenge to the ACA. Crossing my fingers for Tuesday (and working the hotline, and doing voter protection work).

[mzmolly]

6. I'm so sorry.

I can't imagine how you must feel.

[MurrayDelph]

7. We were looking to relocate

Going through all the hoops to emigrate. Unfortunately, you have to provide your own insurance for the first couple of years, and the affordable rates end at age 70. I'm 71

[DFW]

65. Affordable is a relative term

When I moved my residence to Germany, I was 59. I was quoted €30,000 a year ($36,000 at the time) for health insurance. I have an American employer, so no German health insurance covered me. To get German residence, you have to show proof of health insurance. Ironically, when I showed them my useless Blue Cross of Texas health insurance provided by my employer, they accepted it as proof that I had Health Insurance.

I still get comments of protest from the “everything-is-free-in-Europe” crowd, but most of them now know better. Maybe everything is free in the People’s Republic of Sanderstan, but here in the real world, it’s not.

[still-prayin4rain]

8. I think we'll win it, but my anxiety is high, too. nt

[electric_blue68]

9. I hear you. While a born citizen, I depend on SS.....

and Medicare/caid for housing, and Healthcare. So...yeah. Some fearful moments, yes.

I have managed to curtail most of worse case "inner movies". So while I do feel somewhat like "pacing" I'm doing pretty well.

I'm a worrywort, and a worrywort, w a very vivid imignation makes for doing very cool art, not so much peace of mind at times!

Also have a lot I can distract myself with.

And certain things will depend on Congress, so we'll have to see.

[larwdem]

10. your not alone

[HuskyOffset]

11. Right there with you (NT)

[wnylib]

12. The post election violence is as scary to me

as the possibility of a Trump win.

[musicblind]

42. This is a big part of what scares me.

I don't want to see violence in the streets for any reason. My nieces are 5 and 9. I don't want them to see that.

[ailsagirl]

13. I am nervous, but hopeful too-- if that's possible

[Deuxcents]

14. I've never been overly concerned about getting older..I'm now 77 and if the election does not go our way

I’m seriously wondering what will happen to me? The plans Musk is leaking, Project 2025, and the threats to SS n Medicare are frightening. I gotta believe the majority of people will not vote for him but..maybe we’ll have to start thinking about our future differently. The high anxiety every 4 years of their threats to our lives is not healthy!

[PortTack]

16. I wish I could let you in my head for just a nano second....he isn't going to win!

[CanonRay]

17. I truly believe it won't be as close

as the polls indicate. Lots of bogus polling. Rest easy Yoshida!

[bdamomma]

19. Alot of misinformation

and propaganda. And our adversaries are pushing hard for the felon to win, Russia, China and Iran.

But they cannot control us. This is way different from 2016. Feels like 2008, when we elected President Obama, he was full of hope, and so is VP Harris and Gov Walz. I think we have been hated on enough.

He's a felon and a lot more.

Let's do this. When we fight we win.

[struggle4progress]

20. Down by the riverside

[struggle4progress]

21. The Seekers

[punguin54]

22. Kamala and Tim

Will win the popular vote. By millions. No doubt in my mind. What scares me is that horrible electoral college. Should have been gone long ago. Maybe, just maybe we can finally be rid of it and take daylight saving time with it. Both are tits on a bullfrog.

[not fooled]

37. And the MFing leonard leo 6 on the "supreme" court

if they have the opportunity to install red don, they will.

[struggle4progress]

23. Dinah Shore and Mahalia Jackson

[struggle4progress]

24. Playing For Change

[speak easy]

25. I am not afraid,

nor are Dem insiders.

If fear of TFG is driving turnout, good.

[struggle4progress]

26. Louis Armstrong

[David Boyle]

27. Pray

, if you like. Good luck!

[struggle4progress]

28. Peter, Paul and Mary

ttps://

[struggle4progress]

29. Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee

[al bupp]

30. Showing vulnerability is actually strength

If that happens, I will be on the streets, I promise.

[Bluethroughu]

31. If she does not win, I think we should general strike.

Stay home. Your community together. The cops and military are our people, family and friends. And sure there are crappy people but do they really want us dead? Do they really want us hurt? Most not.

We just stay home. There are more of us, then there are of them. Protect eachother, from harm.

[Iris]

32. I'm going to hold space for you in my heart. I'm scared, too.

I am not as vulnerable but knowing how other people will suffer worries me constantly.

[NBachers]

33. I won't write anything to diminish how you feel, Yui. I've gone from dread horror to possibly optimistic and back again.

I feel like there's a huge boulder right behind me, and it's waiting for the repukes to roll it down over me if they win.

I think the election looks like a good possibility; but the states that are fixing to sabotage the vote and won't let federal observers in scare me.

[doc03]

34. It feels like 2016 to me nt

[byronius]

35. I agree. But Kamala wins this one.

I just know it.

[kellytore]

36. Some positive news from Georgia

As of this evening 20% or 733,000 of early voters did not vote in the 2020 election. 264,000 of these new voters were between the ages of 18 to 29, which favor VP Harris. Also 56% of all early voters were female. Early voting is now over in the state so we really need to push our people out on Tuesday. Since Georgia will have all early votes tabulated by 8 p.m. Tuesday, we should know the outcome sometime that night. I'm feeling good about my state right now.

[Gore1FL]

38. You fight monsters on youtube more powerful than Trump.

https://www.youtube.com/@monsutahantayui1987

If we all do our part, Kamala's got this.

[YoshidaYui]

48. MONSTERS ARE FICTIONAL

Trump is not. BELIEVE ME , IF I COULD ASK GODZILLA TO STEP on TRUMP, even he would be hesitant as to what would be squished between its toes.

[louslobbs]

39. Watching this always helps when I'm feeling the way many are feeling right now.

I have great hope for the possibility of a Harris/Walz win and a new way forward for us all. I hope this helps even a little.❤️

[Silent Type]

40. Wanted to hug every Latino family that came by our house last night, just in case the MFer

slips in. We have a big immigrant community, but district votes rube red, like 70+% for trump in 2020.

[musicblind]

41. You are not alone. No matter what happens you are not alone.

We are many, and we a community. We may not agree on everything (or maybe we do), but progressives are a community, and you are not alone. We are with you.

Do not let anyone shame you for being afraid. If you were not afraid, you would be foolish; being afraid means that you are not foolish. You are intelligent.

None of what I am saying here is a statement about who I think will win; this is a statement about the reality of chance vs proportion.

If there was a 1% chance that an extinction event asteroid was going to hit the Earth tomorrow, everyone on Earth would be afraid. Another Trump presidency is an extinction event for the American experiment, and so everyone who loves America should be afraid.

That said, do not let that far paralyze you; let it motivate you. This Tuesday may be the day our democracy falls off a precipice, but it might also be the day we pull it back from the brink, and we must fight to pull it back from that brink. We must fight to save it like our lives depend in it because in many cases, they do.

Fight with peace, with truth, and with light, but do not fight lightly.

And lastly, let me leave you with this one thought: nothing is forever. No matter how dark, no matter how bleak, everything is and has always been temporary when you allow it enough time.

[wendyb-NC]

43. I'm right with you on that, I sure hope not

If tsf gets in somehow, my life would become very bleak, at best. I rely on Social Security Retirement, and Medicare. I know that a good number of folks are in the same boat. It would be catastrophic for so many. How anyone could vote for him, it defies reason.

[Behind the Aegis]

44. I understand and as you see here (and in the outside world) you are not alone.

In 2016, I felt the same way; I don't feel that way this time. I am cautious, but I honestly feel the numbers have underestimated Harris, and if I may but on my tinfoil yarmulke, I think this was by design from the RIGHT. When Harris wins, and wins BIG, it will be their "proof" we cheated. They have sown the seeds of discontent and distrust in such a way, in their world it is always, "Head's we win, Tails you lose" and the right is so delusional, they can only see victory for their side.

It may be close in some places, but I do believe, and I hope I am right, of course, this will be a decisive nail in the coffin of MAGA.

[XanaDUer2]

47. Me too i could loose my ss and Medicare

[Elessar Zappa]

49. I feel you.

I’m in a similar situation. I’m 40 on SSDI and Medicare/Medicaid for cystic fibrosis. My important, life saving miracle drug is $325,00 a year. If Trump and the Republicans yank my Medicaid, I’ll likely die within a year.

[YoshidaYui]

50. I have been told without treatment

I could die in a week..... there's something to think about.

[Elessar Zappa]

52. Oh geeze.

That’s truly horrible. Let’s just hope and pray that Harris stomps the orange villain like the cockroach that he is.

[DemonGoddess]

51. I'm actually quite hopeful

still terrified, but hopeful. I saw someone say somewhere "nauseously optimistic". That describes it, for me, personally.

[crimycarny]

53. Same

The thought of Trump winning is terrifying. Every Trump touches dies, and I don't want American Democracy to be the next Trump victim.

That being said, I just finished my daily run and was shocked to see 6 Harris/Walz signs on my 3 mile run. One house had a huge Harris/Walz flag. I live in an extremely red area in CA. I would never ever have expected to see one Harris/Walz flag/sign let alone 6 (all different houses). Of course, there are more Trump/Vance signs/flags but not nearly as many as in 2016 and 2020.

[Loryn]

54. I am terrified as well

Social Security, Medicare, subsidized housing..... I keep picturing myself under a bridge, with Trump supporters throwing rocks at me.

I don't think he will win, but I don't underestimate his (and the Speaker of the House, Supreme Court and his Evangelical friends) ability to cheat.

[DarthDem]

57. It will be okay

Your emotions are completely normal and understandable, and I'm so sorry to hear you're suffering from them. However, I believe that everything is going to work out, starting with a KH victory. Be well. I love your posts here.

[DoBW]

58. try not to marinade in a broth of fear

do something -- listen to music, write, paint, read, clean the fridge, what ever. It's thought of the thing, not the thing, that hurts. Change it up. Not an expert, but I learned a hard way. I usually find, too, things look different in the light of a different day.

[YoshidaYui]

59. love your logo

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3332985

[DoBW]

60. Buddha quote

[tavernier]

61. I really like that

However, we better be anxious enough to get to the polls as if our lives depend on it!

[justaprogressive]

62. Matthew got it too...

Matthew 6:27

"And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?"

[tavernier]

63. Apparently Mathew didn't have to raise kids,

fix school lunches, drive scouts and brownies on field trips, decorate for Christmas, buy and wrap presents, write cards, wash and fold laundry, prepare delicious meals for a family of six while breast feeding a 6 month old infant.

But I guess it’s not easy sitting at a desk and pondering wise things to say. And maybe Matt’s wife was just happy that he had a hobby.

[justaprogressive]

64. and this has added how many additional hours

to your life?


I'd put a missing the point ani here , but there are real enemies at the gates so I

hope you just have a nice day.

[tavernier]

66. I'm just having a little laugh

at Mathew’s expense. I’m sure he can take a joke.

Probably added quite a few. I’m 78. A little anxiety is appropriate in life, along with everything else. I’m heading for Costa Rica next week to zipline in the rainforest with a few friends. I’ll probably be a bit anxious on the first hill, but that will just add to the excitement.

[DoBW]

67. Sermon on the mount, right? .... nt

thanks for reminding me

[alarimer]

68. I truly don't believe he will

I don't even think it will be close. Things are breaking the right way. There is a massive enthusiasm gap that is not captured by the polls (Dems are enthusiastic. Republicans are..not). And we have no idea how many stealth Republican votes for Harris there will be. I think if she gets 4-5% of them, Trumo is toast.

What worries me is what happens after it is clear Trump lost. Well, it will be clear to us. The right is already prepping their conspiracies and of course there has already been violence, so that part is scary. I just hope the Biden administration is ready.

[soandso]

69. Have you applied for citizenship?

[YoshidaYui]

70. because I am Asian you question my citizenship???

I WAS FUCKING BORN HERE.

[herding cats]

71. Don't let them get to you.

That comment said so much about them for all of us to see.

FWIW I'm scared too. I have ovarian cancer and am on Obamacare which I will die without in short order. I sadly feel you fear to the bottom of my soul, too.

[RidinWithHarris]

75. I think the question was asked merely because you expressed a fear being deported

As bad as Trump's racism and xenophobia is, I haven't heard any talk of native-born asian Americans being deported even in worst circumstances, so I think the person who asks about you applying for citizenship interpreted your fear in that light.

[YoshidaYui]

77. STEPHEN MILLER doesn't seem like the kind of person

Who would discriminate between a person born in the states and someone born some where else.... BELIEVE me when I say there is a good possibility that I may be removed from my residence and sent to the same kind of internment camp that some Japanese went to during World War II, before being shipped to god knows where.
=
I know this has no CRED with Trump, but I am half NATIVE HAWAIIAN... do you think they would say GO BACK TO HAWAII!! i think they would rather clear the island of all the Asians whether they are part NATIVE HAWAIIAN or not. IF TRUMP is as he promised, a dictator on DAY ONE, you can bet he MIGHT want to clear out as many non whites as possible.

[soandso]

80. WTF?

You're the one who said you were worried about being deported. Why the hell say that if you're an American?

[YoshidaYui]

83. STEPHAN MILLER DOESN'T KNOW (OR CARE ABOUT) THE DIFFERENCE

BETWEEN A CITIZEN AND AN ALIEN VISITOR.... ASIANS HAVE BEEN TOLD TO GO back to CHINA OR WHATEVER FOREVER AND NOW HE HAS A CHANCE TO MAKE THE THREAT REAL .... IF YOU CAN'T SEE THAT, THAN I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO TELL YOU.

[soandso]

86. You don't have to yell

Your clarification suffices.

Considering FDR put Japanese Americans in concentration camps, causing them to loose everything, for which they were never compensated, I can understand your paranoia. However, I don't think you have to worry about it and I'm sorry that you have this fear. While there is no excuse for what happened, try to put in context (WWII). It was a different time.

[DontBelieveEastisEas]

87. You said, " I don't want to be deported". That naturally leads to responses such as the one that you are raging against.

[YoshidaYui]

88. do You think Stephan Miller cares about the difference

between someone born in this country and someone who is not?? I don't think he does.

[DontBelieveEastisEas]

90. Do you think Trump gives a damn? About anyone other than his family?

[herding cats]

72. Wow.

Stay classy. 😡

[soandso]

81. Wow, what?

The poster said they were worried about being deported. Americans can't be deported so I assumed the poster was not a citizen. I'm not a mind reader and responded to what was written. Sheesh.

[soandso]

84. Read it

That Trump might win again. I don’t want to be deported nor lose my healthcare, cause its keeping me alive, Trump could change all that and if my Social Security is gone and everything else I could be homeless and than I would be dead. Please KAMALA bring in a blue Tsunami!!!

Gee, how could I have possibly taken that to mean the OP was saying they actually could be deported, which would indicate they are not a citizen?

[Torchlight]

73. Sounds serious.

Good luck.

[soandso]

82. Good luck with what?

[Torchlight]

74. Without minimizing your own concerns, I'm about as confident as I've been since Pres. Clinton's second run.

I think that a vast, undercounted, quiet wave of enagaged female voters will not only tip the scale, but tip it to the point of never going back to anything like Mr. trump again in our lifetimes.

[Eliot Rosewater]

76. Kamala Harris will win this election, count on it!

Having said that I understand your fears I have them also but quite simply if something happens and that traitor goes back into power this will no longer be the United States of America and all bets are off at that point.

[epreic01]

78. No matter what

We will never stop fighting for people like you. It is scary. Many of us are terrified. No matter what, there are millions of good people in this country that will fight back and resist. We won’t give up on people like you.
I feel good about where things stand, but I hesitate to get too excited too soon. Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and imagine the best outcome. Imagine joy and relief flooding the streets.

[SoFlaBro]

79. Don't waste your life sitting around crying and being scared. Orange Motherfucker has already fucked up his shitty campa

[rurallib]

85. Wish I could do something for you. I have done what I could

let's hope for a big victory!

I just realized with your post that I have a couple of great nieces who are in. the same position as you are. Their ancestry is the Philippines. Their mom is from there.

Here is hoping!!!!

[BBbats]

89. I am too!

At 71 I'm dependent on my SS & Medicare.
I still work but technically I'm retired. I don't know how many more years my part time job has left. It's a small retail Mom n' Pop & the owner may want to shut it down & retire.
I have no idea how to reignite a career at 71 soon to be 72 years of age.