There is no soft landing, no waking from this

[skip fox]

without great disruption which may well include political chaos, war, and/or a financial break down. (I.e., these are not mutually exclusive.)

How do we prepare ourselves at least psychologically?

By understanding that it will be rough.

And some of us may have the belief that The Constitution and our country will survive. (After all we weathered The Civil War.)

Yet his inaction and obfuscations concerning climate change will doom us as a species. That's the longterm. (The bad news is, the long term is not all that long.)

There is no waking from this, no soft landing.

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The above a product of a gloomy morning.

[rzemanfl]

1. Paraphrasing a quote I read this morning credited to the French Resistance.

This is a time for optimism, pessimism can wait for better times.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. The *best* case scenario involves 3 1/2 years of President Pence.

Who hopefully would be hobbled by his association with the Trump stink and a strong 2018 performance by the Democrats in Congress.

That's the best case scenario. The worst case scenarios are much, much, much worse.

[bigtree]

3. just keep sight of how much of our modern version of activism and opposition began

...here at DU and elsewhere.

This isn't just learn as you go. We have structure, organization, and experience defending our initiatives, ideals, and rights.

So much of the progressive energy of the Obama era was spent challenging the president on the edges and fringes of his Democratic policy (albeit, some opp was in response to his co-opting some planks of the republican agenda).

It shouldn't take a monumental shift in direction or energy standing up to the manifestation of most of our worst fears in republican-dominated government.

[world wide wally]

4. When we say "even the Civil War", we have to keep in mind that the elements of present day

are even worse. During the Civil War, there was no foreign power involved and we had a President who wanted to save the Union. Now we have Russia's puppet who wants to destroy it on Putin's orders.

[skip fox]

5. The progonsis darkens and the day expands

and yet the amount of craziness that we've seen in the last week seems to be accelerating. In any case, its accumulation may finally lead to his removal. (To end on a bright note.)