I am posting this article from SubStack. As usual, Mary Trump is more articulate on the matter than I am. In posting this on DKos I hope everyone can take her words, experience, and professional psychological understanding to heart.
Excerpts, starting with the lead-in:
I know last week—a week that started with the debate (which included President Biden’s rough performance, Donald’s outright fascism, and the media’s insistence that only the former matters) and was capped off by a corrupt Supreme Court declaring my uncle above the law—felt like a perfect storm of horrible.
But we’ve had enough time to freak out. It’s clear that much of the corporate media is not on the side of democracy so we factor that in to every decision we make going forward. Today, Pres. Biden declared definitively that he’s running. We need to take him at his word, and pull together. We’ve got a lot of work to do.
The Supreme' Court’s immunity ruling was a chilling but compelling reminder that, while stopping Donald is our most immediate task, we also have to stop the people who enable him. They are arguably even more destructive to our country and, unlike Donald, their plans to dismantle our institutions go far beyond putting him back in the White House. Now that the Supreme Court has removed the guardrails, we need to factor in the need to build new ones. That starts by putting the same amount of care, attention, and energy into down-ballot races as we do the presidential race.
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In times of chaos and uncertainty, it’s important to focus on two things: 1) Self-care — be good to yourself; take a break; and 2) control that which you can control.
We can’t control the Biden campaign. We can’t control Donald’s campaign. And, tragically, we can’t control the Supreme Court.
But we can control your own actions and our own decisions. As the saying goes, action is the antidote to anxiety. Adopt a race or two; pick an endangered Democratic senator or a vulnerable House Republican and go to work. Organize, make calls, write postcards, knock on doors, give if you can. It won’t make all the scary stuff go away, but it will give you agency and remind you that the future of this country is decided by its people, by us, not just the bad people.
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My own final Solarman55 commentary:
Please, everyone, for the sake of humanity, find you strength to act in solidarity with Biden-Harris and every Democrat running for every public office in our country. The RW are waging a more and more violent war to bury us in their fascist oligarchic vision of OUR COUNTRY.
Today we are celebrating our independence. I hope we can do so again next year.