You need to let go of what you can’t control, to a point. Focus an what you can do. Vote. Convince others who don’t vote to vote. Educate people when the opportunity comes up. Get active in your community. Most importantly, show love, compassion, and empathy to those around you. Don’t let right-wing rhetoric break you. Always try to be good, but never fail to be kind.

One thing you can start doing today to help curb the maga rise from the south is start transitioning off big tech. Dump social media. Get an email provider that’s ideally privacy focused (Proton, Tuta), and stop using Google. The push for privatization comes from greed, which is compounded by Capitalism. And I’ll say it once more, dump social media. It’s predatory and only exists because of engagement from its users. Social media purposefully feeds divisive, toxic, misinformed bullshit to rile you up and get you to engage. Trust me, you’ll sleep better.