It feels all but certain that I won’t be able to enjoy a prosperous life or get to retire. All of the wealth is going straight to the top. All of the opportunities to move up in the world are being rug-pulled. All of the federal agencies that help keep us safe and healthy are gone. The social safety net is getting flushed down the toilet. We will live in disease and squalor, and the most vulnerable of us will die.

Because I dared to not be a sociopath, I and anyone else who voted for sanity will be deemed enemies of the state and hunted down - which won’t be hard, because it would be trivial to build the most robust surveillance state in human history if it doesn’t exist already.

I myself have disabilities (which I don’t think qualify for benefits) that make it hard, but not impossible, to find a job. The problem is that I just can’t bring myself to do it because I don’t get what the fucking point is anymore. I have to work so hard to get out of this rut just for some fascist fuck to kill me or toss me into a torture facility before I can even experience life on my own.

Have you been in a similar headspace and were able to escape it? If so, what snapped you out of it?

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    I have no answer for you. Really, there is no point. Hopefully enough people give up on the system that it crashes and we can start over.

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      If everybody gives up on the system we fought to build with protections for workers and public goods everyone can use, then starting over will just cause more death and suffering.

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          1. Minimum Wage, Workers Compensation, Unemployment Benefits, Fulltime Employee Benefits, Union Protections, etc

          2. Roads, Hospitals, Schools, Libraries, Water supply, Fuel Reserves, Medicaid, Medicare, etc

          And yeah, we’re going to lose a bunch of shit, because of assholes like you convincing everyone to “give up on it”.