If Trump Wins

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What does everyone plan on doing if god forbid Trump wins? Me personally plan on staying away from politics and the news for 4 years. Just ignoring it as much as possible.
 
I’m about a 1/4 through the arduous Canadian licensing process. Also considering international traveler contracts.

Secondarily/concurrently, become a low level prepper. I have absolute confidence that ttump would refuse all federal assistance should a calamity hit my area, and I fully expect right-wing militia groups (not talking about cops) to regularly terrorize the area, with impunity.
 
I’ve thought about this quite a bit in the last year or so…even before Biden dropped out when he was polling poorly.

My wife and I have the resources to sell our house tomorrow and live comfortably outside the US, but I don’t want to do that for several reasons.

1. This is home and I’d rather not leave
2. Our kids are entering adulthood, this is the only life they’ve ever known and I don’t want to be far away from them
3. I could totally see a Trump Admin implementing a vindictive policy to make it illegal for for those who leave, to return in the future, even after he’s long gone

Reality is I’m a straight white male, so his Admin’s wrath won’t be directed towards me, at least initially. I’ll feel bad for those it does affect…at least those who are voting age and voted for Harris…not the ones who vote Trump against their own interests or don’t vote at all. But at the end of the day I’ll likely stay away from news as much as possible, pray for the day his clock runs out, and hope the damage he does before then doesn’t totally destroy our democracy.
 
I'll continue to do what I've been doing all along, and what I'll do if Harris wins: love on and provide for my family, love on my friends, step up my philanthropic endeavors, continue working hard to grow both personally and professionally, work to be a better person, and in general try to extend as much grace, empathy, compassion, and kindness toward others as I can. A second Trump presidency would most likely make life more difficult for some people that I love and care about, so my focus would be to try to be as much of a shield and helping hand to those folks as possible. Beyond that, regardless of whether Trump wins or loses, I'll plan to try to distance myself from obsessing over the day to day minutia of politics as I have for going on several years now.
 
I’m moving overseas in 2 years regardless. I’ll just ignore the news/politics as much as possible for those 2 years.

It really won’t affect me that much other than crushing what little faith I have left in mankind.
 
theel4life said:
What does everyone plan on doing if god forbid Trump wins? Me personally plan on staying away from politics and the news for 4 years. Just ignoring it as much as possible.
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This is tempting and will likely be my immediate response. But we can't afford to do this. This sort of apathy among liberals is exactly what the modern conservative movement is designed to engender: flood the zone with disinformation, blur all sense of objective fact, and make "normal" people so exhausted/fed up with politics that there is little standing in the way of a reactionary swerve towards right-wing authoritarianism. And we can't simply stand by and let that happen. As demoralizing as the last decade of politics has been - the rise of Trump and MAGA, the increasing partisanship and ineffectiveness of Congress, the outright theft of a Supreme Court seat, the steady depletion of the public treasury for ill-advised Republican tax cuts, and the steady increase of executive power ripe for manipulation - nothing is ever "over" for good. There is always a way forward; or at least a way to make the way forward less painful than it might otherwise be. And we can't stop working towards that.
 
Bigs23 said:
I’m moving overseas in 2 years regardless. I’ll just ignore the news/politics as much as possible for those 2 years.

It really won’t affect me that much other than crushing what little faith I have left in mankind.
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Same here. I may have an opportunity to move to London with my job in 2026/2027- which I would likely want to pursue regardless of whether Trump or Harris wins- but yeah, I think I'd have to just completely check out from the news and politics altogether.
 
rodoheel said:
This is tempting and will likely be my immediate response. But we can't afford to do this. This sort of apathy among liberals is exactly what the modern conservative movement is designed to engender: flood the zone with disinformation, blur all sense of objective fact, and make "normal" people so exhausted/fed up with politics that there is little standing in the way of a reactionary swerve towards right-wing authoritarianism. And we can't simply stand by and let that happen. As demoralizing as the last decade of politics has been - the rise of Trump and MAGA, the increasing partisanship and ineffectiveness of Congress, the outright theft of a Supreme Court seat, the steady depletion of the public treasury for ill-advised Republican tax cuts, and the steady increase of executive power ripe for manipulation - nothing is ever "over" for good. There is always a way forward; or at least a way to make the way forward less painful than it might otherwise be. And we can't stop working towards that.
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Those are all great points, too. Hadn't considered it from that angle.
 
rodoheel said:
This is tempting and will likely be my immediate response. But we can't afford to do this. This sort of apathy among liberals is exactly what the modern conservative movement is designed to engender: flood the zone with disinformation, blur all sense of objective fact, and make "normal" people so exhausted/fed up with politics that there is little standing in the way of a reactionary swerve towards right-wing authoritarianism. And we can't simply stand by and let that happen. As demoralizing as the last decade of politics has been - the rise of Trump and MAGA, the increasing partisanship and ineffectiveness of Congress, the outright theft of a Supreme Court seat, the steady depletion of the public treasury for ill-advised Republican tax cuts, and the steady increase of executive power ripe for manipulation - nothing is ever "over" for good. There is always a way forward; or at least a way to make the way forward less painful than it might otherwise be. And we can't stop working towards that.
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Some people are in a position to fight back and some might have to just hunker down. Some vulnerable populations might just have to go into survival mode.

Much respect to those who can and are willing to resist.
 
Will probably pull back from politics if only to stop hearing him whine. I will prepare for the inevitable backlash election in 2026.
 
On a personal level, the outcome of the election won’t functionally change my day to day life. That sounds kind of shitty to say out loud and I do care a lot about politics and how they affect marginalized people, but I just don’t have it in me to get super invested in something that I can’t control.

The 2016 and 2020 elections felt like watching UNC play in a national championship game. Not going to let myself get to that point again.
 
We lived through 4 years of Trump already, we would survive another 4... I think the reaction to what he does in the first year would be massive, causing a huge impact in midterm elections. So the key to me would be to try and keep people engaged and watching what he does... and let him bury himself. People running for the hills or tuning out are doing exactly what he's hoping they will do... just as we are hoping MAGA types will do if the election is "stolen" again from Trump.
 
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