To all who are in pain: Please take care of yourselves.

[WDLAL]

I'm so sorry to read that the election result has affected many so strongly. I don't want to discount anyone's feelings, but please know that these feelings aren't permanent. Certainly, the outcome isn't what we wanted, but remember, there is another election in two years which can change the congress. Two years after that, there will be a different president. Your families, friends and even your pets need you. We here at DU need you. I wish I could do something IRL to help those who are hurting for whatever reason, but I care as do many others.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Thank you for your thoughts!

As to further elections: remember that Trump promised us we wouldn't have to worry about voting any more. That means no more elections.

Time will tell if he meant it.

[BlueKota]

2. That is one of my biggest concerns.

[WDLAL]

7. My situation is a long story. I live in a rural red area, so there are only a few members of my

church who share my political views. However, they are there. We've discussed that crazy statement and we agreed that it did sound like he was talking to Christians who rarely vote. We've never been those who choose to ignore politics, but we know Christians like that. In spite of the rise of the Christian Right, there are a surprising number of regular church attenders who don't regularly vote.

Even if he really meant that the way it sounded, he doesn't have the support to pull off that transformation. Trump didn't win in a landslide. I just hate knowing that people are suffering due to thinking that is a possibility. We got through his first term, and we will get through this one. I hope we can all hold on to that and not let the "what ifs" steal our joy. Life is hard enough without that.

[BlueKota]

3. Thank you for reaching out.

Like California Peggy I have concerns whether legitimate elections will take place for a longtime to come. I hope you are right and I am wrong, but my gut, won't settle until we know the answer for sure.

[thinkingagain]

4. For me

It’s a I’m ok and then down a lot . Trying hard to not get the best of me.
But sometimes as a worrier and anxiety gets me.
This am it was a fear a sudden impending doom of posting on social media sites ( not just for me but everyone who posted negative things about trump etc over the years. That he would seek retribution on us.

On DU I’d like to think they have a button for instant delete
But places like FB and twitter they would hand all over
I can’t shake it today.

Anyone else with thoughts / fears like that?
Always careful about what I said nothing to over the top and never worried overly much about it because I lived in America
But today it hit me that that could be a possibility with his regime.

Delete accounts The information is still on their servers.

[hunter]

5. I'm not sleeping well at night.

I have LGBQT friends and family. I live in a community of immigrants, some of them undocumented. I'm also a radical humanist and environmentalist.

Living in California, the wold's fourth or fifth largest economy, I can take some comfort that I myself will probably be safe, but that's not true of everyone I know or the people of the U.S.A. and world in general.

Hearing Trump's creepy voice makes my skin crawl. He reminds me of people who left me beaten and bloody in my youth. Guys like him are the reason I quit high school.

I avoid all venues where I might hear Trump's voice, most especially television news and opinion, even NPR radio news and opinion on the local public radio station I support.

I'm not looking forward to the next four years. The previous four years of Trump were horrible.

[Skittles]

6. the problem is

yeah, WE KNOW Dems always have to spend years cleaning up repuke mess - the problem is THIS time, he has more power, no one to "keep him in check" (they were all alarmed and disgusted by him), and the Supreme Court is now an extension of the GOP. The damage this time just may be too great to fix via voting