"Owning Our Shit" (warning, lots of salty language).

[herding cats]

79. What a cathartic rant.

We're all equally screwed now. Even the protest voters who haven't caught on to the fact, yet.

This resonated with me from the article:

WOO! Okay! That felt good. As you can see, I’m a little angry at all of us. I’m sorry if you felt personally attacked but I knew you could handle it. It’s important that we be loud and angry and in each others faces. It’s also important for us to be able to take criticism and take responsibility for this. I’m not perfect either, I wish I did more, I wish I didn’t fall for the sexist traps, I wish I didn’t coddle peoples feelings or let them believe conspiracies.

I'd like to add:

I have no time to listen to you brag about your protest vote currently, I'm too busy trying to protect the most vulnerable among us from the potential fallout of this election to give you more than a scornful glance at the moment. (In case you didn't get the memo; the US isn't the inclusive utopia you idealize it as.) I do promise to give it all the attention it's due in when election season opens again for 2018. And, then if you brag how you're too pure to vote for our Democratic candidates again, I will work my ass off to mitigate the potential damage you could inflict on this country in the future.