Am I being overly dramatic?

[cilla4progress]

Where does the trump presidency rank on your scale of terrible things to happen in your lifetime?

I've been fortunate and I know it. Oh, I've suffered losses, but had a relatively low drama life.

This feels like one of the worst things that has happened in my lifetime. Certainly one of the worst in the life of this country.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I recall the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam War,

Watergate, 9/11 and the resulting Iraq debacle; but this is stacking up to be a crisis of equal magnitude.

[Grassy Knoll]

2. tRump Is Worse Than 911 Of The Utter Disaster To Behest America

End Of Fucking Story.

[BlueStater]

3. This is a self-inflicted wound caused by a small minority of the American people.

Trump is a loathsome scumbag but if 40% of this country had a fucking brain in their head, he never would have won the GOP nomination, let alone the presidency. 63 million morons heard this asshole talk and, instead of flushing him down the toilet of history where he rightfully belongs, well...you know the rest.

That makes it worse than something like 9/11. That was a terrorist attack that the American populace had no control over. The people who are responsible for the absolute travesty we're living through now are our very neighbors.

[cilla4progress]

4. Somehow ive always been able to envison fascism

Coming here. I am a student of politics and have read history.

Well, here we are. With bigger long range weapons.

I hope my daughter will not bring a child into this world. I'm afraid Obama was the final gift of our shared humanity...we, Americans.

[Frogg]

6. Yes we are

I never had a child and right now I am so thankful. I can leave this world without that fear. As I said before, I weep for our nation.

[southerncrone]

9. Yes, this is insidious. The outcome of the dumbing down of Merika.

You are fortunate to be a Blue Stater. Those of us in Red states are continually looking at the those around us, asking in our minds, "Are you a crazy tea-bagger fundy, or are you a thinking, rational person?" Sometimes it feels like your're a sheep among wolves.

[BlueStater]

12. My name is not actually accurate.

I live in Florida so, if you want to get technical, I'm really "once-sort-of-purple-becoming-more-infuriatingly-RedStater". I also live in a rather Republican part of the state full of lots of old people and rednecks, I regret to tell you.

Unfortunately, there's no meaning behind "BlueStater". It's just a generic name I came up with when I first joined the site nearly 12 years ago because I was more focused on sharing my thoughts with like-minded people than coming up with an impressive handle. But I've been using it for over a decade now so I'm sticking with it regardless of whether it's an honest title of my status in life.

[susanna]

20. Amen to this. n/t

[Frogg]

5. No you are being sane

I have never experienced anything like this in my lifetime. 9/11 was horrific but it was a huge hit out of the blue which was a known factor. We knew the extent of the horror. It was contained in that series of acts.

This nightmare has an unknown factor to it. It is frightening, unfolding, building. We do not know how far this will go. The fear is hard to manage as we are unsure of the outcome. I am particularly disturbed when I hear repugs saying how much they are enjoying the fear and outrage the Dems are experiencing. The level of cruelty is so profoundly harsh. I have to believe there will be a check on this madness before it goes so far that there is no return. I weep for our nation.

[cilla4progress]

7. So if some semblance of what we have been persists

We will be as Germany 40 years hence: shamed, guilty, a pariah. A generation will have to explain to its children why and what it did during these times

[Doreen]

11. The Germans are actually saying that also.

[MFM008]

8. right up there with

my dads passing
911
best friends death
pets having to be put down
major depressive episodes

[lpbk2713]

10. I honestly never thought it was possible ...

for that many people to show that much collective stupidity as they did on
election day 2016. I still can't get over it. Now we're stuck with this asshole.

[southerncrone]

13. Another mass PTSD event. JFK Assassination, MLK & RFK Assassinations, 911 & this Fkkfest.

A shell-shocked nation allows for lots of nefarious activity. This is a bit different for me than the other 4. We could make sense of the other events when they happened. This one is just a rat's nest of craziness that we can't make sense of, so far.

I remember Nov 1980, the night Raygun was elected, my husband & I were so shockingly depressed & looked at each other, & said "Our country will never be the same, this is the beginning of the end." Little did we know how true that was.
Then, when W stole the election in 2000 after the hanging-chad fiasco, we again, fell into a depression after the SCOTUS handed it to W. Then the introduction of the electronic voting machines insure red dominance.
Now this. The republicans are foisting increasingly more horrible candidates upon the nation. How can it get any worse?
But the people have reached their saturation point on this now, IMHO. The worm is turning. (fingers crossed)

Thank goodness we had the 8 yr reprieve of Obama.

[Doreen]

14. Lets see, I was bashed into into a station wagon while

riding a moped. I suffered very bad multiple injuries and made my learning disability worse, caused me to have grand mal seizures, and just made my life hard. Trump is right up there with the worst thing that happened to me. I can not say he is first and I can not say he is second worst thing in my life. Is that bad enough for you?

[cilla4progress]

15. That's just terrible

so sorry for your suffering!

[Doreen]

17. Which one my accident or Trump?

I know what you mean. Thanks. I try to poke as much as possible on Trump.

[butdiduvote]

16. I think a lot of people think I'm being overly dramatic, but this does feel like the worst thing

...I've ever experienced, and I've lost a parent. Don't get me wrong, that was terrible too, but I'm having a bigger physical and emotional response to this. Maybe because this was so unexpected. Maybe because I didn't suffer from intense depression and anxiety when my mom died, so I was better able to cope. Maybe because I let myself get too emotionally invested in the thought of having a woman president. I don't know, but this all is making me physically sick, and there's no real sign of it ending anytime soon.

[meadowlander]

18. Personally, the global financial crisis was the worst for me.

I quit my job literally the week before it happened because I had a job offer with another company who rescinded the offer the second the meltdown started. I was then unemployed for four years - as in literally couldn't get a job at McDonalds despite having two masters degrees unemployed.

I've been working full time for the last four and a half years but it's still going to take me another five or six years to dig myself out of the financial hole caused by the GFC (assuming Trump and the rest of the GOP cabal doesn't crash everything all over again).

[manicraven]

19. Fascism has to be pretty high on my list, but I'm still clinging to some hope.

Maybe I'm being naive, but I think if something big enough would come to light that is tied to the mad king (where there's just no squirming out of it, and considering his dealings, it's likely to happen), he'd be forced out. Or, the Democrats take control of the Senate in 2018 and really have a chance to start blocking the fascist and the GOP agenda. I'm hopeful for one or the other, but possibly even a combination of the two and maybe the mad king gets impeached/forced to resign AND the Dems gain the majority in the Senate (and even better, the House, too). That might save the republic.

Surely, though, our nation has survived some pretty awful tests, including really awful presidents, the Civil War, WWI, WWII, the Dust Bowl, The Great Depression, Vietnam War, the assassination of presidents and public figures, 911, Bush/Cheney (including the Great Recession and Iraq War), several natural disasters...

So, although I'm extremely concerned, I still think there's hope, especially considering that the majority of Americans disagree with the GOP's agenda and the mad king's fascism.

[world wide wally]

21. I am a baby boomer born a few years after the end of WWII.

This is by far the biggest (existential) threat to our country I have ever seen.
Everything else was minor in comparison.
9/11 was a tragedy, but it was a one time event that was over as quickly as it happened. However, it set the wheels in motion for what we see today.
This is like being coerced into signing a suicide pact and immediately regretting it and bashing our heads on how to get out of this nightmare.

[tavalon]

22. The Bannon Presidency is worse

Trump is an idiot, Bannon is the puppetmaster and he's the true NAZI.