It was not my intention to portray myself as hair-on-fire (although, I did in fact start this thread). Rather, it was to convey that I am not behaving in my typical happy-go-lucky fashion. I am having personal angst.

Although I think it is unlikely that the world will end before I do, I am confident that there will be a marked shift away from the world-as-it-should-be during Trump's tenure. That is not all attributable to Trump himself, but to the people he surrounds himself with and the control the GOP will have. I think the pervasive feeling, for me, is that I no longer have confidence that "cooler heads will prevail." That's gist of it.

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich