Where the heck do you live? Maybe you should move; it sounds distinctly hellish.
I'm in Dallas, TX, one of the most conservative parts of TX; and I don't encounter what you describe--in fact, that was one reason I distrusted the reported election results immediately; 'cause I'm 50 yrs. old and I'd never before known so many conservatives to vote Dem, never seen so many independent or apathetic voters get mobilized to vote Dem.
I'm serious, do something for yourself; everyone deserves it, and you sound like you need it.
I do NOT believe that the majority of Americans are vicious half-wits. I do believe we've been insufficiently attentive--and hey, lots of us had somehow been brought around to accept that we've got no choice but to have both parents work 50-70 hours a week, so it's hard to keep up with anything at all other than keeping our jobs and trying to still take care of our families.
Our inattention is partly to blame for our current crises; but sometimes crises present opportunity. Maybe we're about to learn that if we don't prioritize for ourselves, others will prioritize for us.
And that there are a lot of good folks in the world, including your friends here at DU, certainly enough to outnumber the right-wing extremists, and that if we can just pay attention, organize, and ACT, we WILL prevail.
I've learned of some wonderful quotes from other DU'ers since I began coming here after the 2004 elections. You've probably seen them, but here are a few again. They're not total sunshine; but they help me keep the faith:
"All that is necessary for evil to prevail in this world, is that enough good men do nothing." -- Edmund Burke
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Isaac Asimov’s . . . Foundation books, the Encyclopedia Galactica was created not to prevent the coming dark age--nothing could prevent that--but to shorten its length. Every thing that we do, every blog we write, every e-mail we send, every phone call we make, every candidate we work for, every heart and mind we change will shorten the dark time that I believe we have already entered.” -- “Diogenes17” at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3777390
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. -- Ghandi
Sometimes it takes thousands of good women and men; sometimes it just takes one in the right time and place. You never know when you might be the one.
Love.