and the actions taken have not had the effect necessary for an organized reaction. These days, in some states, you protest you can get run over by a car, or shot by some kid.

DAMN!!!!!!

And some are winning!
The problem is centralized; the solutions are decentralized and too tedious for sound bytes.

I agree. And this time I don't want to go protest because now there are gun risks that there weren't then. (Oh, except for Kent State etc.)

It's a different world and the adjustment is difficult. You are not alone. But we feel alone, don't we?

Its extremely dangerous. Seemed easier back in the 70's. Aside from Billie clubs or teargas never felt threatened.

The ongoing threats of violence have changed dramatically in my lifetime. I don't notice them until I do notice them, and then I realize that they are in the back of my mind all the time. It can be debilitating.

But maybe by this age everyone felt this way about their world? I need to ponder this. Great advancements and increased threats may be conjoined twins.

I live in a city of less than 400. At least we’re in a city that after this election HAS A BLUE COLLOR MAYOR. Yeeehaaaa might get some local relief. Go Blue Go.

state (Fla) but I found about 20 fellow Dems (took quite a bit of doing) and once spring comes I'll be able to go to their meetings. In winter, can't drive in the dark because of all the deer on the highways. Maybe you could join a political group, if you haven't. Feel for you, 'tho.

But the most of MN voters are way to the North. Minneapolis and St Paul…..pretty far away from my little City. and not that I couldn’t go there, but it is to far Way. So……looking to La Crosse in WI. Thanks.

Join indivisible or a similar group in your state or county. Call your congressional reps and Senators, especially if they are Republican and COMPLAIN to them. Tell them how disappointed and upset you are and tell them that this is NOT representing you. This is especially effective if you live in an area represented by one of them.

Thanks, and

Now I have heat intolerance and arthritis.

because they were sending us to war. People now don't5 think it will affect them.

If there were a draft it would change everything. Although our forces are also decentralized in various pockets instead of all in one general area, it would change things and it would change the threats that are happening.

I too have been trying to figure out what I can do, now that I no longer have the stamina to be part of protests. Although, I am not convinced conventional protests are the answer anyway. Our world has changed.

I am doing whatever I can to get accurate information into the ether. I was going to quit the social platform that is owned by the man with a Z in his name, and which is limiting the political speech it amplifies. But now I am using it to get the truth out there. I am doing what I can to make sure my post doesn't get censored/squashed. I am using a "trick" I gleaned from by William Rivers Pitt (RIP). I don't put the content in the body of the post - I put it in the comments. (He used to put a cute picture in the body of the post.)

I am looking to see which legal watchdog groups are going to court to protect our democracy (such as CREW and Democracy Docket). I will make donations to those organizations.

I am writing to my reps in Congress - regularly. There is so much to get on the record about, this week.

I understand your frustration. We see our democracy crumbling around us, and we want to be a part of the solution. It feels good to be proactive in whatever small ways we can.