My husband has convinced me to avoid the political news. I know who I'm voting for, and reading what The Buffoon has to say makes me so sad and angry that I can't function. So I'm voting what I need to vote and sending money where it needs to be sent, but I'm not listening to crap that will only debilitate me.

I feel sorta bad about this -- it seems as if I should be stronger -- but a responsible exercise of the franchise doesn't require listening to everything that's said by the person one already has reason enough to vote against.

I have trouble believing that enough people took Trump seriously for him to get the Republican nomination; it's so shocking and so depressing that our country has reached that state. But maybe it'll be a wake-up call. Maybe some good will come of this.

Or maybe I'll need to spend even more of my mental energy living in the 23rd century. :-)