I was gonna title this "And here I sit so patiently waiting to find out what price you have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice" and then write "Stuck inside of America with the fascism blues again" here, but I'm not sure if that comes off like gloating and that's honestly the last thing I want to do this morning.
I'm not sure what your problem is. Is nobody allowed to point out the failures in the Democrat campaign?
With sympathy, panicked thoughts about what to do next, and quite a bit of horror? Absolutely.
With a casual blaming attitude, waiting for someone else to make it better? Sure, they're allowed to, just like I'm allowed to tell them to go fuck themselves.
Panic doesn't help anything. Neither does horror. We survived one Trump presidency, we'll survive this one, despite it being monumentally worse.
Do what you can to help those you can around you. Work in and grow the support structures in your local community, family, and social circles.
Panic leads to stupid, rash, not well thought out decisions. It should be avoided as much as possible while you take a long, honest, realistic look at the situation and evaluate what is and isn't in your power to effect.
You're right that passive defeatism isn't helpful, but you don't have to go straight to the other extreme of emotional turmoil.
Maybe you'll survive, bunch of people will survive, but not a lot of the minorities the Republicans currently have in their crosshairs. Maybe you'll find all the skeletons in the camps after however many years or decades it will take to defeat fascism.
We had four years under Biden to find the skeletons from Trump's last presidency. Please point me to them, as obviously I've missed something huge like roving squads of minority slayers or something.
It's going to fucking suck. Yes, people will die as a result of horrible policies and the general sociopolitical climate, but people claiming that minorities are literally going to be hunted en mass are out of their gourd.
Too many armed civilians spread through all the population demographics for that to work to the level a lot of people are screaming about.