It's Around Here Somewhere, Yes?

My sanity, that is.

• Via a comment at Making Light:

  Write down what you value; what standards you hold for yourself and for others. Write about your dreams for the future and your hopes for your children. Write about the struggle of your ancestors and how the hardship they overcame shaped the person you are today.
  
  Write your biography, write down your memories. Because if you do not do it now, you may forget.
  
  Write a list of things you would never do. Because it is possible that in the next year, you will do them.
  
  Write a list of things you would never believe. Because it is possible that in the next year, you will either believe them or be forced to say you believe them.
  
  [...]
  
  And the plight is beyond party politics: it is not a matter of having a president-elect whom many dislike, but having a president-elect whose explicit goal is to destroy the nation.

  "We're Heading Into Dark Times," Sarah Kendzior, the Correspondent. There's a lot more.  Read the whole thing.
• Two from Driftglass:  
• Unheeded warning from an old Twilight Zone.  Someone [ETA: Driftglass!] had a clip from "The Monsters Are Coming to Due on Maple Street," but I purged history yesterday.  Many people in the '50s--you know, the Leave It to Beaver, Ozzie and Harriet, Father Knows Best '50s that "conservatives" think was the ideal time--had, within living memory, seen the endgame of Fascism/Naziism/Right-wing tendencies up close and personal.  There is a reason that it became possible to pass civil rights legislation in the '50s and '60s.  
• Lamenting people cutting off their noses to spite their faces health care, up to a point.

  It saddens me too.
  
  And then I remember that these people also voted to take away my family's health insurance, and my sadness alloys into something else.
  
  If you're holding my family hostage, I'm suddenly a whole lot less interested in your sad back-story that I otherwise might have been.

  Featuring a long quote from Charles Pierce article at Esquire.
• Sarah Lazare, AlterNet, on what the alt-right (ie the Nazis) wants.  Hint:  Not fresh flowers with breakfast every morning.
• More warnings from the Daily Beast.
• The Rude Pundit is taking a breather.
• Forsetti's Justice (tumblr):

  When someone doesn’t trust you and isn’t open to anything not already accepted as true in their belief system, there really isn’t much, if anything you can do. This is why I think the whole, “Democrats have to understand and find common ground with rural America,” is misguided and a complete waste of time. When a three-thousand-year-old book that was written by uneducated, pre-scientific people, subject to translation innumerable times, edited with political and economic pressures from Popes and kings, is given higher intellectual authority than facts arrived at from a rigorous, self-critical, constantly re-evaluating system that can and does correct mistakes, no amount of understanding, no amount of respect, no amount of evidence is going to change their minds, assuage their fears.
  
  Do you know what does change the beliefs of fundamentalists, sometimes? When something becomes personal. Many a fundamentalist have changed their minds about the LGBT community once their loved ones started coming out of the closet.

  It's harsh, but he escaped that environment.
• A doctor fights back.
• Down With Tyranny:

  Meanwhile, between his apparently crazy, Adderall-fueled critiques of the wildly popular Broadway play Hamilton and the weekly TV show Saturday Night Live, Trump's actually managed to get the media's and public's attention off the $25 million settlement he was forced to pay to get out from under 3 of his Trump University fraud lawsuits. [Emphasis added.]

  You may see the word "kakistocracy" bandied about a lot in the next year.
  
• Speaking of election rigging...  (Zandar Versus The Stupid)
• ETA:  Susie Bright's call to arms.

  Your condemnations about yesterday do nothing for tomorrow’s opportunities.
  
  None of that matters now.
  
  Connect with friends and family... and strangers, in small and big ways.
  
  Don’t make an isolating personal decisions in the next three months.
  
  This period is going to evolve A LOT in the coming weeks. —No divorces, no disappearing acts, no evictions, no sudden vices, no cutting someone out of your will, no ultimatums… just put a pause on it. You can always return to it in 2017. Right now, ride the wave.