Permaculture Principle 7: Design from patterns to details - ie don't miss the forest for the trees. Back up and get some perspective. I think about how the onslaught of awfulness upon awfulness right now is meant to bog us down so we lose focus on how to save our democracy.

chart has been updated.

It's not only the incoming horrors, it's the opportunity cost: the loss of the future we almost had, the possibility and progress within our reach that voters rejected in favor of this timeline where we all will suffer.

Just my 2 cents. But my goal is to ignore the trolls. Give them zero attention. Block them if they annoy me.

I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc