There is no more time for grief

So, I've tended to darkly joke that much of the U.S. is still wallowing through the five stages of grief that kicked off on 5th of November, but I think I should knock that off. The problem is that people really seem to be doing it. The stages (The classic model tends to constitute denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance) may suffice to get over death of a loved one or the loss of the one fun car you ever owned after you drove it into a river (another story), but they would constitute a lattice of doom in terms of dealing with cataclysmic political upheaval. We can allow ourselves some denial for a little while (a week. That two weeks ago). Anger and its subset lists of moods have their purposes, which we'll get into. The last three are what the Trump regime will rely on individuals to lean into as it dismantles legal and protective frameworks, removes rights and undermines the systems that maintain any kinds of accountability.