and NO it still isn't safe yet to log onto facebook, unless you enjoy the taste of other people's tears... holy crap people I'm going to revoke your membership to moveon.org for your stubborn inability to do so.
what's the current world record for crying like a bish? and has anyone called guinness book yet?
Seriously. I can understand being a little upset, but I've got people freaking out and making absurd contingency plans for things that Trump never said he would do and things that he has no authority to do in the first place.
I think there's a lot of fear right now in general.
Trump got elected on fear. Fear of foreigners. Fear of diminished classical American values. Fear of the regression of America as a "great nation" (let's be honest, the 'Make America Great Again' thing was always really suspect if you thought about it for two seconds).
And now that he's been elected on fear, people who disagree with him are fearing. And not without basis.
Hate crimes against Muslims are up at a higher rate than before they were after 9/11.
I can't speak for FFXIAH's LGBT community, but I can tell you the friends and family I have in this category are worried. Unduly? Possibly. It's so hard to say, because Trump himself has sent conflicting messages by trying to whip up the Christian rhetorical fervor while still claiming he has no interest in taking already-decided issues to task...yet he also says he wants to allow for people to discriminate at will based on religion.
There's just confusion and uncertainty. And in that environment fear reigns. People wanted change. Well, they're going to get it...
...Maybe!
I dunno. I think Bernie said it best. I know no one is shocked to hear me say so.
Quote:
“If Mr. Trump in fact has the courage to take on Wall Street, to take on the drug companies, to try to go forward to create a better life for working people we will work with him on issue by issue,” he said. “But if his presidency is going to be about discrimination, if it’s going to be about scapegoating immigrants or scapegoating African Americans or Muslims, we will oppose him vigorously.”
The next question for Democrats, Sanders said, is to try to understand why their message is losing at the ballot box not just for the White House, but for state and local offices around the country -- and said the “liberal elite” and their focus on high-dollar fundraising plays a role.
“How does it happen that they win elections and Democrats lose?” he asked. “And I think what the conclusion is Democrats have focused too much with a liberal elite which is raising incredible sums of money from wealthy people in the upper middle class but has ignored to a very significant degree the working class and the middle class and low-income people in this country.”
Hillary gave those middle- and low-income families little reason to hope. She was too busy courting donors and voters that she already had. She was too busy having to defend her own questionable practices. Not to mention the whole "DNC trying to put Bernie down" bit.
She -- and, by extension, the DNC -- put themselves in the position of fighting a multi-faceted war both from outside and from within.
Whoops.
So the people who looked to her and the DNC to be their champions were disappointed. The people who looked to Trump -- for ANY reason -- were vindicated. For better or worse.
I'm hoping for the better. I don't expect it, but hey. That's just life in general, ain't it?
