My kids wonder why I get so emotional over all this shit.

[barbtries]

They want me to be serene at this moment in history, and I cannot manage that.

But as I always tell them, you need to know it's not about me. It's about you, and your children and your grandchildren and their grandchildren. I'm already old, I'll be 69 next month. I'll be dead and gone and you will be the ones trying to have a decent life in a fascist dictatorship.

Unless we win. I've been crying on and off since yesterday. The day before yesterday I cycled through all of the stages of grief it seemed in about 6 hours' time. Since then, there is renewed hope. I don't even know if serenity is attainable for me before or after the election but I believe we will win it.

Republicans have no bottom, so it's predictable that when they lose a lot of hell will break out. I knew when TCFSF won in 2016 that it would be a shit show but it turned out to be much worse than I anticipated. Nothing held. So I have hope. I'm not whistling. And it is not about me.

[tetedur]

1. I'm trying to say to myself we will be alright.

Regardless of outcome, we will survive. We have new wind in our sails. Perhaps we have more crew with us now to keep the boat afloat.

I felt body blows when everyone was piling on for President Biden to quit. It was so counterintuitive that they weren't screaming for the convicted felon to quit. So wrong and so mind blowing. I thought the Democrats were trying to shoot themselves in the foot deliberately. Maybe it was me that was wrong.

Where the country is going to go is out of my hands or yours. We each have one vote. When I vote, because I live in a red state, my vote will be meaningless. But come hell or high water I'm voting and no one better get in my way when I do.

No matter what happens, I'll be damned if the orange dip destroys what time I have left on this earth.

[barbtries]

2. i often say when faced with an issue,

it's going to work out. maybe for the better, maybe for the worse, but it is going to work out.

I felt all the same ways as you. I was frustrated beyond measure. Why you keep talking about a bad debate and not mentioning the broken dam stream of bullshit coming out of TCFSF? His demented ravings; why don't they make the evening news.

It really was as if someone knew something I did not know. I wonder if I ever will. But if Joe had to leave the race, his timing, grace, sacrifice, COMPETENCE, will never be forgotten. and then the Dems got Harris the delegates she needs to be the nominee, so. What a rollercoaster.

[KatyaR]

3. I'm in my 60s as well.

I know that part of the reason I get so emotional over politics is that we (us older folks lol) grew up in the 60s with powerful, inspirational leaders like the Kennedys and Martin Luther King--people who inspired us to think of a brighter future. I mean, I was only 6 when JFK died, but I so remember how devastated people were, same with Bobby and MLK. We haven't had a group of people like that in our lives for a very long time. As much as I love and admire Joe Biden, hearing Kamala's powerful words brings all that back, and it's very emotional. And it gives me hope for the first time in a very long time.