2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If you fought against Hillary Clinton after the Democratic convention, [View all]NoGoodNamesLeft
(2,056 posts)By that I don't mean it just hurts their feelings because they don't like him or disagree with his policies. I mean that they were just sent the message by half of America that they do NOT matter. They feel that there is NOT a place for them here now. They do NOT feel wanted, valued, appreciated. The feel demonized, hated, unwelcome, unwanted. CHILDREN feel this way. They are TERRIFIED and fearful for their future.
Hispanics, muslims, LGBTs, blacks...all being victimized more since the election because the bigots were told by half of America that bigotry, racism, sexism is all acceptable now. Every person who voted for Trump or didn't do their part to STOP HIM sanctioned this shit.
If you are not a member of one of those groups then you do NOT get it. If you're a white straight man you won't be directly impacted by the hate. If you are a middle school or high school girl you are now more likely than you were before to get groped at school. Hey, if the president can do it those impressionable teen boys think it's OK to do it too. Yes, it's already happened.
At a high school in Florida a teacher told some black students that they better watch out of he'd call Trump and they'd get deported back to Africa. A fucking TEACHER.
So while you sit there and defend so called "principle" votes I ask what the bloody hell kind of principles were people supposedly standing on? They sure weren't any kind of concern for humanity that's for damned sure.
THAT is why there are widespread protests. That is why there is such a deep anger over Trump enablers who did not do the right thing and make sure that orange bastard didn't get elected. So yeah, I'm pissed at ANYONE who didn't do their part and I DO blame them for the reasons I just spelled out.