I can't live in this country anymore.

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30. For people like me

who live in red areas of the country, it does feel hopeless. I would assume there is a lot of hope in blue areas. You at least have local blue representation. We in dumbfuckistan have red local, state, and federal "representation". We see the people who live around us, our neighbors and their maga hats, the yard signs for crazy, eye patch wearing republicans, and the t shirts for Abbot for governor (In my case). It's hard as hell for us to hear the gloating about trump being president and beating that dirty "b@#$*" Hillary. It feels like a constant beat down every single day of our lives. When we hear talk of a blue wave, there is no optimism for that considering what we see and feel every day. I, myself, seriously wish our country would just split again. Let the reds live with the reds, and we normals live with the normals.

Having said that, we have to remember that normal people FAR outnumber the republicans. Three million more votes for Hillary was not a sham. We have to hope that eventually the tide will turn. I may be a grandfather by the time it happens, but i have to believe it will happen. I don't want to move from Texas. What would i do without Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston, as well as the gorgeous Toledo Bend, Sam Rayburn, and Lake Fork? I would miss the hell out of the Frio River and that whole beautiful, quiet hill country. Hope is all I've got and I'm willing to live on it until I'm gone, even if that's all it'll be.

P.S. There sure are a hell of a lot more Beto signs than cruz signs around here!