America Great again!

[Drich]

This why we Grieve.


I don’t think you understand us right now.

I think you think this is about politics.

I think you believe this is all just sour grapes; the crocodile tears of the losing locker room with the scoreboard going against us at the buzzer.

I can only tell you that you’re wrong. This is not about losing an election. This isn’t about not winning a contest. This is about two very different ways of seeing the world.

Hillary supporters believe in a diverse America; one where religion or skin color or sexual orientation or place of birth aren’t liabilities or deficiencies or moral defects. Her campaign was one of inclusion and connection and interdependency. It was about building bridges and breaking ceilings. It was about going high.

Trump supporters believe in a very selective America; one that is largely white and straight and Christian, and the voting verified this. Donald Trump has never made any assertions otherwise. He ran a campaign of fear and exclusion and isolation—and that’s the vision of the world those who voted for him have endorsed.

They have aligned with the wall-builder and the professed p*ssy-grabber, and they have co-signed his body of work, regardless of the reasons they give for their vote:

Every horrible thing Donald Trump ever said about women or Muslims or people of color has now been validated.
Every profanity-laced press conference and every call to bully protestors and every ignorant diatribe has been endorsed.
Every piece of anti-LGBTQ legislation Mike Pence has championed has been signed-off on.

Half of our country has declared these things acceptable, noble, American.

This is the disconnect and the source of our grief today. It isn’t a political defeat that we’re lamenting, it’s a defeat for Humanity.

We’re not angry that our candidate lost. We’re angry because our candidate’s losing means this country will be less safe, less kind, and less available to a huge segment of its population, and that’s just the truth.

Those who have always felt vulnerable are now left more so. Those whose voices have been silenced will be further quieted. Those who always felt marginalized will be pushed further to the periphery. Those who feared they were seen as inferior now have confirmation in actual percentages.

Those things have essentially been campaign promises of Donald Trump, and so many of our fellow citizens have said this is what they want too.  

This has never been about politics.
This is not about one candidate over the other.
It’s not about one’s ideas over another’s.
It is not blue vs. red.
It’s not her emails vs. his bad language.
It’s not her dishonesty vs. his indecency.

It’s about overt racism and hostility toward minorities.
It’s about religion being weaponized.
It’s about crassness and vulgarity and disregard for women.
It’s about a barricaded, militarized, bully nation.
It’s about an unapologetic, open-faced ugliness.

And it is not only that these things have been ratified by our nation that grieve us; all this hatred, fear, racism, bigotry, and intolerance—it’s knowing that these things have been amen-ed by our neighbors, our families, our friends, those we work with and worship alongside. That is the most horrific thing of all. We now know how close this is.

It feels like living in enemy territory being here now, and there’s no way around that. We wake up today in a home we no longer recognize. We are grieving the loss of a place we used to love but no longer do. This may be America today but it is not the America we believe in or recognize or want.

This is not about a difference of political opinion, as that’s far too small to mourn over. It’s about a fundamental difference in how we view the worth of all people—not just those who look or talk or think or vote the way we do.

Grief always laments what might have been, the future we were robbed of, the tomorrow that we won’t get to see, and that is what we walk through today. As a nation we had an opportunity to affirm the beauty of our diversity this day, to choose ideas over sound bytes, to let everyone know they had a place at the table, to be the beacon of goodness and decency we imagine that we are—and we said no.

And this is why we grieve.
Original Blog

I'm literally crying on and off since last night.  I've ever experienced this before.  I'm not afraid.  I'm white, I'm straight, I'm getting older, my husband has skills that are highly desired in the workplace.  I'll probably be ok. 

I'm crying because I feel like this nation embraced it's darkest side. I'm crying because I hear about people who will now lose their healthcare that they wait so long for, and for the children and grandchildren who will grow up poorer, less educated and more defined by their race, gender and ethnicity than I once had hoped for.  I cry because we've rejected our brothers and sisters, and even the planet itself.

Not every Trump voter is bad, I'm not saying that, but by electing him, we've given a thumbs up to the very, very worst of ourselves.

I had this very discussion last night, where i outlined more or less what you said here..

In that
Clinton repersents EVERYTHING WRONG with politics, and Trump repersents Everything wrong with soceity. Those who voted again trump were voting to secure their version of soceity/what makes them feel good. In essence A hilary vote was a vote for social morality/pop morality.

Here's the thing:

We did that 4 years ago and again 8 years ago. Things got worse. Why? because the rest of America can see that we do not need a quasi social/moral prophet right now we need a political leader. Not a politician but someone who will lead us out of the vow of poverty your social leaders must be willing to take for this country.

In otherwords mainstream America is telling you moral nut jobs keep your 'pop moral' BS to your self for a while, or at least till we can make some money back to pay for some of the 'moral crap' that is killing this country.