Still unsure.

 The problem with the results of the most recent election are that they go against everything I stand for and everything I was ever taught. I was taught to be a fair decent upstanding human being, to be kind to others, and to look after people that need help. This election has empowered misogyny and racism and sidelined everything from women to minorities and more. The fact that there are already people celebrating and rubbing it in everyone else’s faces with big banners and slogans and advertising hoardings that read things like “your body my choice”. Republicans would have you believe that the reason they won was because Harris was divisive. Of course it’s absolutely the opposite. It’s Trump who’s divisive. It’s him who is pulling the country to pieces. And he’s empowered racists and misogynists and  sexists and all the worst people in the world by validating their thoughts, their feelings and their motives. They’ll tell you it was about the economy. But it was never about the economy. For Trump it was about winning a popularity contest and everything is and always has been about him. His supporters of course will end up paying higher taxes. Their small businesses will go out of business. Tariffs will destroy the economy. And yet somehow the Republicans will find someway to not blame it on Trump. They’ll find some way to blame it on liberals or gays or blacks or Jews. Somehow they’ll find some way to validate that it couldn’t possibly have been their fault that they voted for someone who was ignorant, and that they themselves were ignorant.

How this country voted speaks volumes about so-called religion. Christianity and all of the other world’s religions tend to teach care and compassion and looking after others and being kind and generous. Given that most of this country is religious that means that over half the religious people here voted for a misogynist, convicted felon, unconvicted rapist, and the sort of person that you would never want to come across in a dark alley at night. They voted against their own self interest. And they voted against the principles of their own religion.

I’m really curious to see how this plays out and how they’ll find some ways to justify it and somehow not blame themselves for what happens next

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