I have a twitter only to follow Trump. I'm scared out of my mind.

[sarah FAILIN]

The man sounds like he is threatening the UN now.
Everyone needs to watch it.

WTF We're the reps thinking???

I'm actually thankful my son who just turned 18 has lost his hearing in 1 ear and has hyperlasticity disorder. That might save him from the draft.

[doc03]

1. That crazy SOB is going to get us in WWIII and the f---g Republicans will blame

Obama. I kind of wish Obama could leave office today before that stupid SOB Trump blows things up.

[Different Drummer]

4. Speaking of blowing things up reminds me of...

this little ditty.

[doc03]

6. I even heard one Republican, I forget where probably Fox, saying nuclear war wouldn't be that bad

that people still live in Hiroshima and Nagasaki for example. He said they try and make us believe the world would be uninhabitable.

[sarah FAILIN]

5. I'm still praying he dies. i know that's terrible!

I just can't help it. I feel like the only safety for our country is if he is dead. Natural, not like anything illegal.

[Truth321]

2. Not just sons

They've already decided that women as well will be drafted. This has been a thing for some time now.

[Different Drummer]

3. "WTF We're the reps thinking???"

They weren't.

[potone]

7. I think a lot of us are scared to death.

I haven't had a night's sleep without nightmares since the election. Most of them are not overtly about it, but they are all anxiety dreams that I know are the result of the election. It doesn't help that so many people on this board still seem to want to cast blame for the Democrats' loss rather than think what can we do now? This is an all-hands-on-deck situation, and I simply do not know what to do.

A colleague of mine who was politically active in the 60s against the Vietnam war said that if all else fails, we can take it to the streets. I don't like the idea of recreating the kind of mass protest movements with the accompanying chaos that happened in the 60s, but since we can no longer count on any of our institutions of government, I don't see what else we can do. The problem is that this is not just one issue, like Vietnam, it is going to be everything: civil rights and liberties, the environment, education, foreign policy, Social Security, Medicare, tax policy, ad infinitum, ad infinitum.

I really hope that young people will step up to the plate. I know it is not fair to put it on them because they haven't created the crisis, but they have the strength and energy to drive this effort. I am not young or in good health, and I am very, very tired. But I am willing to do my part.

Happy Holidays to you and everyone else on DU.