It sounds as though you are experiencing the same post election symptoms as many of us are. Obama’s re-election has a very negative affect on opponents of collectivism. I suspect the following symptoms are familiar to you.
“Late one night, her guttural moans and grating squeaks woke up her boyfriend, Stephen. “My arms suddenly whipped out in front of me like, like a mummy, as my eyes rolled back and my body stiffened,” she writes. “I was gasping for air. My body continued to stiffen as I inhaled repeatedly, with no exhale. Blood and foam began to spurt through clenched teeth. Terrified, [he] stifled a panicked cry and for a second he stared, frozen, at my shaking body.” She now describes her seizures as eerily similar to the character Regan’s outbursts in ‘The Exorcist.’”
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The election didn't get me down.
What did if for me was learning about the MASSIVE fraud. Wow! What a bad omen for our nation. It's Banana Republic time. That's when I spiraled down into a funk.