> I wish I could go back in time to when I didn't need to tense up before opening up the news each day. This really hits home. These four years have been such

> I wish I could go back in time to when I didn't need to tense up before opening up the news each day. This really hits home. These four years have been such a depressing time for just reading the news. Every day it seems the US is edging closer and closer to.... I don't even know what. With half the country happily marching to the drumbeats. It's amazing just how fragile our systems were. I've been wondering if it's just mentally more healthy to go the ignorance is bliss route. I know so many people who don't even register these kinds of events, and they seem happier.