I'm a trans woman who had to flee her home and lost her career because of anti-trans policies enacted in large part due to Trump's administration.

My mom does fuck-all to help the situation other than complain endlessly about it, while I am actually the one who was denied healthcare, harassed, and dehumanized by the state. I'm tired of symbolic and meaningless liberal politics precisely because they don't feel grounded in the actual stakes at play. Cutesy klansmen Trump signatures feels too much like the vapid politics of my mother, and it drives me insane.

To whatever extent I can recede into a bubble, it is because otherwise I am unable to function from being so overwhelmed, it is something I do to cope and because I need to function keep myself alive at this point.

You're not wrong about the importance of being engaged and political, and to whatever extent I feel sickened by middle class liberal culture, I still recognize that I probably shouldn't express my hard feelings because those liberal allies are basically the only ones we have in American electoral politics, they're the ones preventing anti-trans laws from being passed, etc.

Still, I complain - I probably just shouldn't. Sorry :-(