Any other Americans not feel safe because of the election?

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Like, I'm not even talking about if [redacted] wins and the world goes to crap. I'm afraid to talk about anything other than the latest cat video because I might lose a friend. I've already gotten into verbal fights with people who I know are normally decent people. I know this is a first-world problem and there are worse things out there and at least I'm not a starving child in Africa, but I am honestly afraid of my peers. Everybody's so angry, I can't even be on Facebook for a few minutes even with FB Purity filtering out the worst of it. It's killing my creativity. I can't wait to do the "3 days unplugged" challenge for homework, I might even do it early, just because it would be an excuse to get away from politics.

People seem to be acting a little crazy this election and I constantly hear, “I am voting for XXX because it’s the lesser evil.” I refuse to vote this year, neither one of them are fit to run for president. I can’t bring myself to vote for one or the other, not for the lesser of the two evils.

Our next president’s decisions will impact our Supreme Court for many years, decades. Good or bad, we will be reminded of it for a long time... But yes, I can’t wait for the fighting to stop and can only hope for the best.

rump's supporters frankly scare the $#!+ out of me.

Making you (and everyone) feel unsafe is a deliberate strategy, mastered especially by the Marxist Left. The convicted felon Robert Creamer, who has visited the White House more than 300 times in the last 7 years, including more than 40 visits with Obama, wrote a strategy book for radical leftists when he was serving time in prison for bank fraud and tax evasion. PsyOps (psychological operations) is an old Stalinist strategy:

In general our strategic goal with people who have become conservative activists is not to convert them—that isn’t going to happen. It is to demoralize them—to ‘deactivate’ them. We need to deflate their enthusiasm, to make them lose their ardor and above all their self-confidence…[A] way to demoralize conservative activists is to surround them with the echo chamber of our positions and assumptions. We need to make them feel that they are not mainstream, to make them feel isolated… We must isolate them ideologically…[and] use the progressive echo chamber…By defeating them and isolating them ideologically, we demoralize conservative activists directly. Then they begin to quarrel among themselves or blame each other for defeat in isolation, and that demoralizes them further.

More recently, he's been one of the people engaging a kind of domestic guerrilla warfare, infiltrating political rallies and trying to deliberately provoke violence. He wants you to feel unsafe. Obama wants you to feel unsafe. Clinton wants you to feel unsafe. Your fear is their route to power.

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I feel fine, not unsafe about the election.
Looking forward to voting.
Have to figure out what this year's propositions are about.

From what I hear even across the pond some people would feel unsafe if Redacted wins. Most of us don't feel much better about the alternative either.

Edit: What is the "Marshall Law"?

I just hope whoever gets elected decides to play nice with China and Russia. Last thing my country needs is for America to drag it into a war that can't be won. Beyond that I don't care.

In any election, the goal of most candidates is to demonize their opponent and appear as the sane alternative. This election is special, because both candidates are pretty much already vilified, it's easy for both sides to point at various faults and claim that fault is the worst fault ever. There is significant fear mongering on both sides, and it's very poignant this year.
Vote for either of the major candidates, or vote third party or whatever, it's all ok. The worst part is that many people are taking it personally and making it hard to have intelligent discourse. I know some very intelligent, well meaning individuals, on both sides of the isle.
When I'm stuck on the side of the road changing a flat, I don't ask the person who stops to help who he voted for. It's not that big of a deal.