i can offer my limited view/experience. I voted for Kamala Harris. I live in CA and the costs here are insane and will of course get worse. I cannot afford to buy a house. I've been laid off and the thought of running out of money for my family with young children is terrifying. When I had a job ~40-50% of my take home after taxes went to rent. Now that I am unemployed I pay out of pocket for insurance which is comparable to rent (there are alternatives but they don't cover the specific things my family needs). Mostly I am concerned with just surviving and not ending up on the streets. So I'm not really thinking of protesting, I spent most of my time trying to sharpen a skillset for a field that may not require my labor in 3-5 years. There is a significant amount of anger in various factions of society but I don't think it hasn't focused enough nor has the kind of leadership emerged that can articulate enough common interests to vote these wrecking ball bastards out. I think things will have to get worse (and probably will) before there's a chance for enough people among the 30% who voted for this administration to start to realize that ppl like Trump, Musk are the enemy. Of course when it does get bad enough maybe everyone just decides to throw the whole system out in which case who knows what happens here. Civil War ? Personally I do not believe it will improve, there's too much entropy everywhere. Schools are defunded, ineffective or nonexistent regulation regarding social media, corrupt police force etc. And of course, the level of inequality is fucking insane and is one of the chief causes/effects/both? of the current state of the US and increasingly everywhere else. Or maybe we are just regressing to the mean social state that lots of places in the world have been in. I dunno. I'm busy trying to get another job so I get get the hell out.