In the county in which I live, Trump did win the vote. So I assumed that today at work there would be have to be a number of people who would look happy
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I think a lot of people just woke up and are wondering what they have done. Especially the disgruntled Bernie voters who either stayed home or voted third party, or even worse, for Trump in misguided protest. Now we all have to live with the results of their temper tantrums for the next four years. I just read that only 19% of millennials voted!?!? Talk about shooting yourself in the foot... Wanders off to grieve for what might have been...
Yeah, if people didn't vote at all, I really don't have anything to say to them that they don't already know.
If they voted for a third party...well, same thing, really. I did hear someone say, "I had to cast a vote in a way that let me feel morally okay with myself" and I can't argue with it, but I can point and say, "And this is the result."
This. And I don't see how you can feel 'morally ok with myself' when your vote has just thrown millions of your fellow citizens under a bus. When black teens are being shot in the street with increased impunity, trans people are attacked and humiliated by both bigots and the law, equal marriages are annulled and the state turns women's bodies into state property as a DIRECT OUTCOME of their 'morally ok' vote, I hope these - mostly white, mostly affluent, mostly SAFE - boutique voting\non-voting brats will finally realise that voting isn't all about 'myself'. And make wiser, more responsible choices next time.
I got into an argument with my roommate, who was trying to defend all the third party votes (which would have given Hillary the win in several key states). I was having none of it. I did that once (John Anderson in 1980) and the cost of me feeling all nice and clean and pure was Ronald Reagan and all that came after.
That certainly seemed to happen here in the UK when we had the nightmare referendum (I refuse to use the popular name for it, it makes me feel like I'm in a bad ad campaign). A lot of people seemed to think they were making a protest vote and didn't think it would have a real effect. WTF, people.
I myself was following on the CNN website during the beginning of the votes being counted, and the next day I went back to the site and read an article about 'where did it all go wrong for Hillary?' It said that there's a group of people who thought it wasn't okay for women to get treated like that, but they voted for him anyway.
If that's the case, then your 'it's not okay' is just worthless crap and you do think it's okay, geesh. You voted for a pig.
Hopefully his own party will keep him under control, now. They have to. *fingers crossed*
As harsh as this is going to sound, a good chunk of people decided they would never have respect for Hillary Clinton from the moment she became the public victim of her husband's infidelities. I believe people think that. And it's fucked.
This. I also think the right have never forgiven her for for being a politically active FLOTUS who tried to get stuff done. (Esp nasty socialist stuff like universal healthcare.). They've been smearing her with dark conspiracy theories ever since, and sadly even people (esp men) on the left have sucked up & reguritated the 'corrupt Killary' narrative as if it were fact. TBH I think any female candidate for POTUS would get similar treatment, and I can't help admire the grit and grace Hillary Rodham has shown in surviving and calling out the misogynist crap. She was amazing in the debates.
People at my office walked around ashen-faced. One of my colleagues said her nineteen year old daughter bawled her eyes out, and another almost went home early because he hadn't slept. I barely made it to closing time because I was so tired, and I nearly broke down at my therapist's office during a session. This election brought all sorts of old pain and trauma boiling to the surface.
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If they voted for a third party...well, same thing, really. I did hear someone say, "I had to cast a vote in a way that let me feel morally okay with myself" and I can't argue with it, but I can point and say, "And this is the result."
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This. And I don't see how you can feel 'morally ok with myself' when your vote has just thrown millions of your fellow citizens under a bus. When black teens are being shot in the street with increased impunity, trans people are attacked and humiliated by both bigots and the law, equal marriages are annulled and the state turns women's bodies into state property as a DIRECT OUTCOME of their 'morally ok' vote, I hope these - mostly white, mostly affluent, mostly SAFE - boutique voting\non-voting brats will finally realise that voting isn't all about 'myself'. And make wiser, more responsible choices next time.
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If that's the case, then your 'it's not okay' is just worthless crap and you do think it's okay, geesh. You voted for a pig.
Hopefully his own party will keep him under control, now. They have to. *fingers crossed*
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