I know many of you, my readers, my family, my colleagues and my caring friends are hurting. Take your time. Mourn, ache, protest, do whatever it is you need to do.
Then when you get through this, I encourage you to remember the last eight years. Remember the voices that called Obama, a man I never voted for, a monster, a beast, the antichrist, whatever else. Then forgive them. Break the pattern.
Not for one moment do you need to respect or condone the actions of anyone who threatens the health and safety of our Muslim, Gay or Female friends or partners. Not for a moment, not for a breath, not for any reason. Nor should you emulate their past actions.
If we descend into the same cycle of hate and villain-raising, we will create through resistance the very era we wish to end. It is because I believe in your capacity for love, empathy and the deep care you’ve shown each other, that with humility and a focus on the suffering in our nation, that we can help each other.
Are you ever going to finish your Warlock retrospective series?
I was – then I haven’t been able to build up the will power to reinstall WoW. I’m sorry.
Yes, I’m commenting on a post that’s over a year old. Yes, you will likely delete this. Nonetheless, I wonder if you’ve figured it out yet, or even attempted to. I speak of course, of why this happened and what you can actually do about it. Why did millions actually vote for him? What combination of events over the past decades brought it all down to this? How did you manage to disenfranchise millions of Americans to the point that they would do this? You are all so fixated on the winner that you completely and entirely ignore his voters yet again. This of course is the why. And they had enough. And they spoke in thunderous volumes. Now of course, there is work to be done. And it won’t be achieved by vicious name calling or lying or ignoring facts or ignoring the lessons of the past. It can only be reached by actual consensus and that is something you can’t achieve by anything other than real dialogue and compromise. Compromise is a hard thing to do since it means that both parties must necessarily give on some points. Now, since it’s 2018 I suggest that Democrats and their sympathists get to work. Everything the media throws out suggests that you haven’t yet actually grasped the why, let alone roll up your sleeves and fix anything. Unless a whole bunch of you start to reach out to your fellow countrymen and find commonalities, it’ll be 4 more years of Trump and I figure at least another 8. possibly 16 with Republicans. You ignore, belittle and marginalize non-coastal Americans at your peril. They matter. And if you don’t smarten up, and turn your gaze inwards and open your arms to them instead of they’ll exercise that right to vote again and again and again until it sinks in. And blessedly since you have the Electoral College, you’ll never ever dilute their vote through immigration. So I suggest you get to work.
I mean you’re right 🙂
The fact that the country inhabitants feel marginalized is very much the reason the democrats, once the party of labor unions and the people, have become weak.
However, compromise requires receptiveness from both sides…. and right now, the people who are most suffering are voting for the people who are taking away their health care and financial stability. And they do it because they are more concerned about fitting into what their ‘group’ expects of them than what they need and want for their families. How tragic is that?