If that doesn't get you angry...you're dead inside.
Well, I am not angry. I just don't give a crap about the morons that go along with this stupidity. If it isn't affecting me and mine, then have at it. Destroy yourselves.
Do pot or the harder stuff they are making legal. Get on the govt dole. Reap what you sow.
My kids put up with some stupidity at school.. but nothing this bad so far, and they are old enough to see it as the bullsh*t it is.
They too pick the battles they want to fight.
I am building and protecting my little piece of the world, and everything else can go hang. There is no saving it- there is only saving the remnant. Not ever sure where I saw it -- Adaptive Curmudgeon probably, but I read something about the disaster of keeping your eyes on the horizon (mostly by using the internet) , watching events you can do nothing about and lowering the quality of life by being angry only serves the enemy. Retrain your focus. Build and create. Set the boundaries of your concerns where you can affect the outcomes. My lines are drawn in the sand, and I look up only to confirm they haven't been crossed.
The more I focus on getting my immediate needs met, and making my immediate life easier, and getting prepared for the less immediate problems we know are coming - the happier and more fulfilled I am. If I die in a hail of bullets defending what I build, so be it. I spent my time here to the best of my ability. Bad times make good people. Let the times push you into being more productive, more attentive to your family and friends, more skilled and knowledgeable and able to help others.
I know your family is difficult and like herding cats, but finding a way to move to the hinterlands - at the lake or elsewhere,and concentrating on the things that matter - taking care of the animals, building that greenhouse, getting that garden planted, putting in solar, improving your defensive skills, learning to can ,learning to hunt - literally ANY step you can take that improves your situation will work so much more to your advantage than providing a running commentary of America's decline. (not that I don't enjoy your posts.. but I worry about what they may be doing to you)
As much work as I have done and as much as that remains before me, I find more meaning and happiness here than I have ever found elsewhere. Hell , I have even started to like country music - because it nearly always about gratitude and finding real meaning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuBgOn2oc80https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CMJP7u6tmshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOdaNwAn9h4 Now its time to worry about the Americans in your life because their country is gone, and our enemies are working hard to sow the seeds of their own destruction.. we just need to get out of the way of the history they are creating as best we can. The last election proved politcal solutions are off the table, and that means practical solutions are all that is left. Work on your practical solutions. Glance at the horizon occasionally to see if the zombie hordes have yet come close enough that you can affect the situation, and if not, return to your work.
Of course if you still can't handle the country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w
