I feel like I'm living through a horror movie
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In the old story of the frog in the boiling water, this 10-year journey through the Trump years is eerily similar to a horror movie. The fact that 45% of American voters are OK with this is scary. Now we have an additional villain joining Trump at the top of this adventure; the world's richest and most unstable man, Elon Musk.
It's similar to the "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". Amazingly, men (and some women, like Nikki Haley) will support a person who publicly insulted their intelligence, their looks, their family members and their spouses. This was unheard of in my day. A Senator touting a candidate who insulted his wife on twitter and accused his father of assisting in the JFK assassination. A Senate Majority leader who is insulted in public and whose wife was insulted with the most racist tweets. Nikki Haley, who was called a "bird brain" and whose husband was denigrated for being deployed. I could go on and on, with the most recent being Brian Kemp.
This is not normal. I come from a time when a politician would hold a grudge for his seating assignment at a fundraiser, let alone a public insult of his or her spouse.
Family members (mostly male cousins) who I thought were intelligent and tolerant turn out to be racists and bigots who feel free to let everyone know now that Trump has given them cover.
If you told me 10 or 15 years ago that this would be America today, I would not have believed you. But, unlike a sci-fi thriller, this nightmare may never end, at least not in my lifetime (72 years old).
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I am so very sorry you are hurting. There are people all around you who care about you, and I am just one of them. One of the best things you can do is get outside if possible, whenever possible. The therapeutic value of watching sunlight dance through the branches of a tree in a warm autumn breeze is real. And looking around, you may come to notice some people around you being kind to each other, you may see an older couple holding hands of a baby playing with her mom. There is beauty to see, and feel.
Kamala Harris is going to win this thing, but even if she didn't take some solace in the fact that good may be sleeping for a while - but it is still here. They won't keep us down forever. 
Here is something off-topic to cheer you up as it cheered me up:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240930-the-only-place-where-whales-come-to-watch-you
Gray whales were nearly hunted to extinction during the 18th and 19th Centuries, and as a result, the animals tended to act aggressively towards humans – so much so that local fishermen even dubbed them "devil fish" and avoided them. But in 1972, a man named Francisco (Pachico) Mayoral was out fishing in Baja when a whale surfaced and lingered by his boat. Curiosity compelled him to put his hand in the water. The whale rubbed against Mayoral and stayed by his hand.
News of Mayoral's experience spread, and locals, much less afraid, waited patiently to experience similar friendly encounters. "Gray whales specifically are naturally curious and have never been afraid of approaching floating items in the water. Humans hurt them, and then the gray whales reacted to that interaction," Sanchez tells me. "After [Mayoral's] first peaceful contact, humans started to realise gray whales are not the scary and mad animals we thought they were."
Sanchez was the first Mexican naturalist to guide whale-watching tours in the lagoon back in the 1990s, and his own eco-tourism company now has a base camp on San Ignacio Lagoon. "As time has gone by, humans are becoming less afraid to let gray whales get closer to the point of close contact. I believe this is [also true for gray whales]."
It is good to see we don’t always have to be hideous as a species
. Does one good to see a cool news item like that.
