im seeing lots of posts in various groups im in about ppl feeling fear or pain after the election, or needing to support each other in a challenging time.

i have to admit im super confused. what is this, 9/11? what terrible things are people worried about?

am i completely out of touch? wtf is going on?

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some of this is sort of a performance that people do politically, would probably call this virtue signalling

some of it may be related to very specific policies that might impact them, their families like deportation

the affective style of politics is trauma, we experience the election of a president either with elation (gloating, talking about the victory and the win as if it has any connection to us, saying "I called it" etc) or grief. been like this my entire life

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also, I try not to judge people for this. we pick it up elsewhere and it doesn't mean our feelings aren't genuine. its extremely common 

we are what we eat, and we're eating some hyperbolic media