USA, Nice While It Lasted

Well, it's all over. Our modern-day Caligula not only won the electoral college votes but the popular votes of millions of scared and deluded white people, our fellow citizens-turned-cultists, and I fear there's no way to recover from this. I'm nearing retirement (will I still even have Social Security and Medicare?), the Yonkers neighbors are paving paradise and putting in a parking lot (looks like a concrete party space is coming) right outside my home office window, my mom may not be long for this world, and nothing is keeping us here now. I need to meet with a retirement specialist soon and try to figure out if we can move to Canada or, preferably, the UK and get away from what's to come... except, of course, that what's to come will affect the entire world. It's hard to see any silver lining here. Most of us believed him the first time he showed us who he was. Will he ever cede power? Will his enemies be executed? I wouldn't put anything past him. I weep for Ukraine and Israel and Gaza and every other place with decent people, but mostly I weep for those of us unable to understand and counteract our neighbors' fear and stupidity. I've been going through various stages of grief for awhile now with Mom's situation, now I'm just kind of numb from it all. But we need to carry on, because we have no choice. So I immerse myself in work and computer games and other distractions and hope against hope that sanity and reality will prevail despite the odds.