This has been a year of high political anxiety. Here’s how to survive it | Jay Watts
by Jay Watts from on (#20SQR)
Faced with the uncertainties of Brexit and Donald Trump, the best response is to fight back against the forces that oppress us
Many of us have been stuck in a Brexistential crisis since June. Uncertainty over if, whether and how article 50 will be triggered only sharpens our distrust of political leaders, and ever more hyperbolic, rabble-rousing headlines appear now on a daily basis. We face another looming worry: the possibility of a Donald Trump victory in the US. Like Princess Diana's death or 9/11, these are world events that we struggle to compute. They are absolutely real yet seem strangely unreal.
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