The anxiety I'm feeling right now started months ago. During the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, my hair began falling out and one of my eyelids started twitching. Classic signs of stress, said a doctor friend.
We looked and sounded the way people look and sound outside the intensive care unit, as they wait to learn whether a friend or relative will survive. The survival we were worried about was that of our democracy.
No one can pretend we live in a nation of equals, that there aren't massive income and racial disparities. No one imagines the rich and poor have an equal say about who runs for office or makes decisions about healthcare and education.
We understand the alternative. We know what a dictatorship is. The millions killed by Hitler, the millions killed by Stalin. The Argentinean military dropping prisoners out of helicopters.
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