Re: Mr. Trump, I mean Mr. President, which State would You Like To Round Them Up In?
Won't happen. None one in rural America is voting for a Dem. No one. It's all about social issues. Always has been. Obama was an anomaly.
THe other thread closed so I am posting this here as it is relevant to your comment.
It must have been the tax filings both candidates released.
The only solace I can offer the Democratic supporters is that you're going to see the GOP lose control of Congress in two years because the GOP will overstep their bounds and the public will want to reign them back from the craziness.
By then the damage will be done.
I’ve always dreamed of settling down and starting a family. But for the first time in my life, I’m glad I don’t have a family and I’m especially glad I don’t have a daughter. The questions would be unbearably difficult to answer.
How do I wake up tomorrow and explain to her what happened last night when she asks? That America doesn’t value you because you’re not a man. That you still can’t be president because you’re not a man.
Beyond that, how would I tell my children that America doesn’t value diversity? What would I tell my child if they were a member of the LGBT community? That America doesn’t value you unless you’re a heterosexual, white, Christian, male? We rend our garments and gnash our teeth over Sharia Law but let Christian fundamentalists run amok in our government.
Racism has won. Xenophobia has won. Sexism and misogyny have won. Fundamentalism has won. Lies have won. A man who ran a scam university won. A man that doesn’t pay his contracts won. A man who doesn’t understand NAFTA or the implications won. A man who judges you based upon your looks won. A man who only cares what you have to say if you have a *****.
This isn’t a rebuke of Washington. The incumbents would have had widespread losses if it was. They haven’t. I might have accepted this result if it were the case. But no, this is an embrace of racism and sexism. An embrace of the qualities we've worked for decades to eliminate.
Welcome to an America where you can’t dream anymore. Welcome to an America where a bunch of white men in ridiculous red hats tell you what to believe. Welcome to an America where we test you based on your religion. Welcome to an American where we objectify you if you’re a woman. Welcome to an America where you are probably guilty because you’re walking while black.
I’m glad I don’t have a family. How could I explain to my child that for the first time in my life, I don’t believe in what America represents anymore?
I too did not sleep well last night. I went to bed physically ill to realize the things that make my country dear to me, the things inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty, are the very things people elected a president to negate. I have a child in college. I teach HS kids at church. I have no idea how I am going say anything that makes sense.
My child was texting me all evening- full of hope. The country was intelligent enough to see what the consequences would be if they elected a man who was clearly unfit. At 2AM I got a text he hates his country. He has morals, values. We just elected a man who is amoral. He understands world politics (to a degree). We just elected a man who all but a select few world leaders have stated they do not trust and will destabilize the world stage. He is deeply concerned with the environment. He is an Environmental Sciences major. We elected a man doesn't have rudimentary science knowledge, denies scientific evidence and espouses the things that will destroy our environment.
I have no words to comfort him. I have no words to comfort myself. I have no words to explain the un-explainable. I am thankful he is not a girl, gay, of a different color or religion. In some way I am reassured that he is able to see the sickness that is invading the public psyche but that is little solace.
What do I tell my Sunday School kids? How do I explain away the Evangelicals who were morally bankrupt and supported a man who is a racist, misogynist, and the very embodiment of what Jesus teaches us to avoid being?
I sit here, in a sense of deep dread.
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me - See more at:
http://hmd.org.uk/resources/poetry/first-they-came-pastor-martin-niemoller#sthash.n5yimo8N.dpuf
