I’ve been trying to work on blog stuff and posts and updates, but it’s just not happening. Tuesday was awful, Wednesday was worse. I had students asking me if they were going to be sent to Mexico, away from the only home they’ve ever known. Kids who were born here, who are US citizens. Kids whose parents were born elsewhere. It’s so fucking heartbreaking.
If you voted for this, embrace it. Own it. You decided that being racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, narcissistic, a rapist, and a convicted felon were not deal-breakers.
We are not the same.
I'm with you. Feeling numb. Things are about to be very crazy.
ReplyDeleteAnd the masses who voted for him don't seem to understand he does not care about them or this country. They will be impacted by everything to come, not just the people they hate. Because that's why his super rabid base votes for him - he will make life worse for those they hate.
DeleteI'm trying to find a spark to do something productive, because blogging itself has not come easy today. So, I start with comments and try to go from there.
A week later, I still can't believe it happened. I'm definitely reading to escape right now. Hang in there, friend.
DeleteI agree that it is beyond depressing. Somehow I thought the country was better than this. Surprise - it isn't.
ReplyDeleteI thought so too. I hoped so anyway. This feels worse than 2016, because we already did this once. It was shitty then, it will be worse this time around. Unless, of course, you are a mega-rich medicore white man.
DeleteOh, Dorothy I think the *world* thought you're country was better than this.... Apparently not! You have to wonder what it says about the good old USA? Nothing good...
DeleteIt is a myth that the country was ever great. Rich and powerful, certainly, but never great. And certainly not now.
ReplyDeleteOne of my son's friends posted the following:
ReplyDeleteSeniors voted to gut Social Security.
Men voted for their wives and daughters to die from miscarriages.
Immigrants voted for deportation raids.
Poor people voted for tax cuts for billionaires.
Women voted to have fewer rights than men.
Police voted for a convicted felon.
@asclepiasyriaca
At least I know there are Americans who think differently, Americans who can think.
Most of my friends were really surprised about the outcome of the elections, we weren't. I had feared this would happen.
My condolences to all of us. Because we non-Americans, who will also suffer, had no say in this.