Here we are, again.

[cislyn]

A few years ago, after the disastrous recall election here in Wisconsin failed, I wrote that elections are meant to be messages. And I was pretty bummed at the time about the message being sent by the electorate of the state I'd chosen as my home

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[voldsom]

*quiet hugs*

[cislyn]

*hugs back* Thank you.

[dmousey]

Hear! Hear! We need to start standing up for and with each other, and just be good to each other.

[cislyn]

I'm all about standing up for each other. I think it'll take a little more than just being good to each other to really find a productive way forward, but being good to each other has to be at the base of things. It's the first step. And maybe every third. And as for the other steps... well, I'm working on that still.

[seraphicwing]

America messed this election up badly. :(

[cislyn]

It definitely IS a mess. I'm sort of in "it is what it is" mode right now - which isn't to say I'm feeling fatalistic. More that I'm accepting of the deep division in our electorate, the problems facing us, the contributing factors, because seeing those things as they really are is part of figuring out what to do to make things better. And I desperately, deeply, really want to make things better.

[alwaysfstuff]

But the truth is that the message of this election is different than that - it's not as simple as "w