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smirkymonkey

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11. Honestly, yes. I want to be optimistic, but I feel like the entire world is experiencing this

Reply to CanonRay (Original post)

Tue Dec 31, 2019, 04:02 PM

Dec 2019

right-wing momentum that does not seem like it is going to be easy to resist. History shows us that nations go through these periods about once per century and only war or major upheavals are enough to turn the tide. For some reason, I think we are going to go through a very bad time before things get better again. I really hope I am wrong.

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Is anyone else feeling apprehension about the coming New Year? [View all] CanonRay Dec 2019 OP

Well.... FarPoint Dec 2019 #1

I agree with you. nancy1942 Dec 2019 #2

Yup. Girard442 Dec 2019 #3

Putin that bastard bdamomma Dec 2019 #7

Wait until at least Iowa before we begin the speculation. Initech Dec 2019 #4

I think we are all having bdamomma Dec 2019 #5

I'm a pessimist, so I'm totally on the same page as you. CrispyQ Dec 2019 #6

Love it! CanonRay Dec 2019 #8

I kinda of wonder bdamomma Dec 2019 #9

I'm expecting a traffic jam at Teeterboro and Fort Lauderdale. CanonRay Dec 2019 #10

Honestly, yes. I want to be optimistic, but I feel like the entire world is experiencing this smirkymonkey Dec 2019 #11

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My anxiety which began in 2016 has worsened continually yellowdogintexas Dec 2019 #13

I am very apprehensive about 2020 not just about Boomerproud Dec 2019 #14

I totally get it. CanonRay Dec 2019 #16

Politically, seems that 2020 could be much wilder than 2019. empedocles Dec 2019 #15

I just went calendar shopping marlakay Dec 2019 #17

I would feel safer if I-#45 were under lock and key in Leavenworth Prison. nt NCjack Dec 2019 #18

Yes-- Not so much about the orange jackwit, believe it or not essme Dec 2019 #19

I always try to be optimistic. Chronic pessimism is a bad state of mind to be in. totodeinhere Dec 2019 #20

Always been a half full kind of person snowybirdie Dec 2019 #21

Think ahead a bunch of years frazzled Dec 2019 #22

Is anyone NOT feeling apprehension? JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2019 #23

The coming year is unpredictable, and things could either get much better, or much worse, or Nitram Dec 2019 #24