Anyone else have a foreboding feeling?

[Lady Freedom Returns]

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I don't know if it's due to all that tragic things that have happened, or is it possible that something else is brewing.

There is a tension in the air. The way people are looking at each other. Everyone doing their best to avoid eye contact.

It's spooky strange. Anybody else seeing or feeling it?

Add: it could be because we are voting here in Tucson to become a recognized "Sanctuary"city

[spanone]

1. It's like the genie of trump's racism/white supremacy cannot be put back in the bottle.

How can we 'move on' from this? Act like things are normal?

[Moostache]

2. All I know is Trump has brought hate and loathing to my days

And I will NEVER forgive him and NEVER forget ANYONE who openly praises, supports or voted for him. He is evil incarnate and the feelings of revulsion that he triggers in me are like the worst spine-tingling scream you have ever seen...

[Kilgore]

22. Why do you let him f-up your day?

Doing so just gives him power over you. He dosent care, so you end up giving up your joy for what?

Mentally flip him off and enjoy your blessings.

[Moostache]

27. That was easier when his words did not CAUSE deaths

He has moved beyond an annoyance to be ignored and to an obvious and present danger that must be taken away....in chains or after having a massive stroke.

[Kilgore]

33. No doubt

But letting him ruin your day effectively diminishes your energy to do so ethig really effective, like electing someone else.

[bdamomma]

29. People are suffering

from PTSD you can interpret that anyway you choose. But people running for their lives in NY city after hearing a motorcycle backfire thinking they are gun shots, we are a people in mental anguish. No way to live in fear.

[Kilgore]

34. I take exception with "we"

Its a choice.

My choice is to be an effective agent of change, and not let someone control my life be their words.

[bdamomma]

35. True, we do have a choice.

an agent of change I like that.

[Cary]

3. An idiot behind me on the train was droning on about Orange Hitler

I had to fight back the urge to kick him in the head.

Pehaps you picked up my intense vibes?

[Loki Liesmith]

4. Seems normal here in Philly

[Lady Freedom Returns]

5. I'm here in Tucson, that could be it.

[RobinA]

36. Pretty Much!

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[RKP5637]

6. Yes! I was just in Home Depot and noticed it. People looking on edge. n/t

[maryellen99]

7. I do but it has to do with what's going on internationally nt

[Voltaire2]

8. You other than the one I've had since early

November 2016?

[BeyondGeography]

9. Very much so

[hibbing]

10. Perhaps worried about getting gunned down anywhere? n/t

[FirstLight]

11. yes...

Somehow, we crossed a threshold this week. Can't put my finger on it but between the violence and the big immigration "round-up" in MS and no doubt more to come...there's a nasty feeling happening.

I keep thinking about the paralells in Germany 1938, wonder if the dates match up anywhere... Apparently Kristallnaut (sp?) happened in November. Maybe we won't even make it to the election, civil war breaks out a year before...no impeachment, no congress (Half of them will be rounded up too...esp the 4 congresswomen with targets on their backs already.)

I remember thinking on election night that at least I lived in a pretty remote area, that mayyyyybe I'd be able to get through this presidency like Bush's, (really pissed but relatively unaffected directly) now, I fear for my own safety in a way I never have... how dare I be a Liberal and support Gay rights? How dare I have a lesbian daughter... How dare I .... (fill in the ANTIFA blanks)
I live close to Nevada, total MAGA Counrty rednecks with LOTS of guns. Believe me when I say I worry about having any distinguishing clothes or even a sticker on my car when I drive through Carson City or Reno....

[Cetacea]

17. +1000 n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. The QAnon freaks scare me in particular.

Those are seriously demented people and I worry it will be boiling over soon with them in particular.

[FM123]

16. Yes, me too.

I've mentioned before here on DU that they are everywhere - even in police uniforms as evidenced by the SWAT officer that came to meet Pence at the Ft Lauderdale airport last year with a Q patch on his official uniform.

[GulfCoast66]

13. Nope. Normal day here in central Florida.

Worked, hit the brewery and grocery on the way home.

[NRaleighLiberal]

14. Since election theft night, daily. Getting worse..daily.

[bearsfootball516]

15. Not particularly.

🤷🏼‍♂️

[customerserviceguy]

18. People make eye contact with me

just like always. Especially when I'm in SC, but even in NY, like we are this week.

[Cosmocat]

19. Hard to tell - there have been waves like this over the last 2 1/2 years

it comes and goes, there have been other seeming inflection points.

I feel what you are feeling, but I have felt it almost a dozen times since election night 2016.

He isn't going away, his lunatic base only digs in deeper the more horrible it gets, and a BIG portion of the "middle" covers their ears and screams BOTH SIDES ARE THE SAME!

It is 95% out of our hands until November 2020. We just have to keep our heads above water until then, and increasingly figure out how we can help the cause and collectively get out to the polls and kick republican asses, across the board.

Then understand we can never again, not take EVERY election seriously.

[Kilgore]

20. Nope

My Wednesday lunch group is 50/50 republicans and democrats and everyone was civil and respectful despite the spirited discussion.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

21. Yes, I think I feel it too,

But what I'm also picking up on is people's fear.

I think the message that has finally hit home is this: IT CAN HAPPEN HERE, TOO. And that's what I think I'm sensing. People have finally had their blinders ripped from their faces. Yes, big cities have been the sites of gun violence, but increasingly, it's small towns, out-of-the-way places, cricket-chirping USA. The naivete or complacency of "It can't happen here," is being shattered and people are starting to digest that. And their frightened.

[BigmanPigman]

23. No, not here.

I wear my "Lock Him Up" earrings and pin and I am getting the same amount of responses and, as usual, all are positive. I live in a blue area.

[Hortensis]

24. For a long time, but less today. This may be a DEFINING point

for our party and Trump-McConnell's.

Not for trumpsters gone briefly silent; they'll bounce back as always.
Not for those on the left too wired to reject Democrats to have passion left over for Republicans.

But for some of those Democrats, other liberals, and moderate conservatives who want to support what is right but have been weakened by the blizzard of lies and false equivalencies with the right. This may be a defining day that helps some see through to the truth and find their commitment.

And the same for wobbly conservatives who've been upset about what's happening on the right and have been wondering if they could vote for Trump again.

Many of our candidates have spoken very well today and are important parts of it. VP Biden's my favorite inspiration for reminding us again that this election is about the soul of America:

"We have to show who we are. We choose hope over fear, we choose science over fiction, we choose unity over division, and yes, we choose truth over lies."

[tman]

25. Yes. I'm not in the US and I still have it.

[bdamomma]

31. Me too

but we are not living in the shadows of tRump, we at least have peace of mind, but we have compassion for those who are living in this fear.

Again this is their way of controlling the masses through fear. Fucking sickening.

[pnwest]

26. Wow, I was just saying those very words

to the boyfriend yesterday. There’s a palpable tension in the air - a stillness, like the very earth is holding its breath. I too have a very strong sense of foreboding and dread. I hope to Christ I’m wrong. But it feels like something very, very bad is coming.

[Trumpocalypse]

28. No

[WiffenPoof]

30. Yes...i feel the same way

But here's something to think about...

Trump will go back to campaigning soon. I look forward to seeing how he handles the rallies. What can he possibly say?. Will he fire up his base again with racist remarks. And if he does, will that be the first shot in a civil war?

[Joe941]

32. Nope.

[struggle4progress]

37. Yes. More or less constantly since about 1970.

But sometime around 1976, I decided to call it "healthy paranoia" instead of "holy shit! if things kept going this way, I'll be beaten to death in a concentration camp by fascists before I retire!"

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick the objective conditions that prevail during your lifetime