OH Fuck, it's about to get real in here. Or it's not

[Ilsa]

57. No sweat, I didn't take it as criticism, my apologies

If my comments seemed defensive. I had to not watch any evening news, cnn, msnbc, nothing for the first month. It was too infuriating and depressing. Like you, I had to refocus to keep my head on right. Sadly, this election has had a profound effect on my feelings of hopelessness, though.

I daydream about leaving. But we are over 55 and our kids are young. Both are still in high school. The older is disabled. I'm not sure how welcome we would be in most countries with these circumstances unless we were wealthy. We just don't have enough saved because of several economic downturns that robbed our retirement plans.

It breaks my heart to see this, and frankly, I'm glad both of my parents aren't alive to see it. My mother worked for the War Department and my father served in the South Pacific, seeing battle more than once. It pisses me off to no end that he fought and nearly died with the eventual result of people like trump establishing fascism and an oligarchy.