How is everyone handling the hate they feel right now?

[Moostache]

121. My hate is all consuming...

I have had to dial back away from everything... I have literally spent the last 48 hours alone as much as possible. I have not watched ANY news coverage, no speeches, no pointless navel-gazing analysts, nothing. I have gone 100% dark.

And in my darkness, hate abounds. Contempt and loathing. Vitriol and recriminations. It is toxic, it is violent, it is consuming.

If I could strike them out of existence, I might. Reason has been defeated. Rational thought is in the trash. Concepts like 'equal justice under law', 'one person, one vote', and 'all the news thats fit to print' / 'democracy dies in darkness' are laughably trite and discarded. The world I thought we lived in is exposed as a fantasy. Fairness, equality, opportunity - all bullshit.

Crony.
Money.
Profit.
Get the 'others'.
Blame.

Those are the currency of the realm now.

I refuse to participate.

I apologize to my unfortunate friends who cannot take my cowardly way out. I am white. I am male. I am 53 years old. In short, at a glance and by education and birth, I'm "in the club"... Unless I choose to speak out, most dipshits who are in the cult of personality simply speak around me as if they are talking to a friend. I will allow them to do so. I will hide in plain sight.

But my hate will fester and grow.
My vengeance will wait.

I am going to become the 21st century Count of Monte Cristo.
It is sad that there will necessarily be people harmed when I take my revenge. But in the end, Dumas' antihero Edmond Dantes found the two words to sum up human accomplishment - Wait. and Hope.