I am sick of always being afraid. I think metaphorically my internal panic buttons have been overloaded to the point where they are broken and I am ok with that. They were never very good anyway. They were always on 
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(Well except about ecological collapse. Those are and always will be on. Greta Thunberg has her priorities straight.)
But as far as crazy humans go, I am sick of always living in fear of creeps-who span a spectrum-from mildly creepy to actually violent. All of this imagery is meant to frighten people. And it stops working if you shrug it off as pathetic.
There is still a lot of danger out there. One of this creep's worst legacies is having been such a source of misinformation. People still believe in qanon. They think the election was stolen and that antifa did all this. People who are experts on these things have to figure out how to change minds sustainably and how to get people to learn to accept facts they don't like. Over time it gets less painful. And it sure as hell is better than believing rubbish all your life.
I myself had a teaching moment. I had really lumped Trump in with the rest of the Repukes. I had not realized that he was actually insane and not merely a generically sleazy, more overtly racist/misogynistic conservative who backs cut-throat capitalism. But an actual neo-nazi who would start an actual race-war.
I thought he was all hot air. Erik Prince and Pompeo always scared me more.
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