@Clint Westwood: "I'm probably not going to be invested in politics after this. This is all just too much and too retarded."
I fully agree so much that I will sperg out right now about this
for the past few years I've put in a lot of work into irl and online political activism. I'm exhausted. Hours upon hours of staring at screens, hours upon hours of talking to people in real life and over the phone. It's a huge drain in addition to my non-political obligations. Gotta move on to sort out other stuff in my life that need to be sorted. I already deleted all social media and will try to live as close to a 19th century monk existence. I've had too much Internet in my life. From November 2 to earlier today I was *wide* awake for over 36 hours out of sheer mental excitement. Politics really fucks with my sleep, and I just want to start being a total health nut right now to compensate. Humans were never meant to sit on their ass in front of screens arguing and thinking about nonsense for long stretches of time.
I expect that Trump will win the legal battle for re-election but will be denied the consensus of the legitimacy of his victory that he deserves. Whatever the case may be, it's not in my hands anymore. Despite all the hard work influencing people all over the country, I doubt I flipped enough to be truly decisive unless it gets *really, really* close.
For the next few years I want to mainly work on things in life that I have more direct power over: personal health, wealth, connecting with people who aren't mental about politics. I'll still be voting and chipping in donations every now and then, but I don't even want to spend even short periods of time listening to political podcasts and writing paragraphs in online political debates because I've had enough of that in my life.