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[swan_tower]

I broke down crying last night.

Because I thought my country was better than this, and instead it proved itself to be worse. And it will go on getting worse, in ways big and small, because soon we will have a president and a legislature and a Supreme Court that do not care about the well-being of women or minorities or LGBTQ people or the environment or anything other than themselves, and because every small-minded reactionary bigot in the country has just had their bigotry validated on a nationwide scale. Because this is what the Republican Party has created, and the older generation who took a country that worked and systematically broke it, and the white citizens of the United States who fear the rest or else just don’t give enough of a damn — not every one of them, not without exception, but in the aggregate.

And I don’t know how to fix it. Because it can’t be fixed, not in any simple sense of the word. The best we can do is batten down the hatches, join hands with one another and achieve whatever good we can, however small. Not just for the next four years, but for a generation or more to come, because make no mistake: the damage from this will be lasting.

I don’t really know how we’re going to do that. Maybe tomorrow, or the day after that, I’ll be able to think about it.

Not today. Today, I don’t even know what to do with myself.

Originally published at Swan Tower. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[dhampyresa]

*hugs*

[sovay]

Not today. Today, I don’t even know what to do with myself.

*hugs*

I am doing work, and feeding the cats, and being upset, because the alteratives will not make me feel better; other people I know are taking the day for grief. I hope you have found something that feels useful to you, whatever it is.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've given myself today to just . . . do whatever I can, even if that's "nothing." So far it's meant playing a bit of a video game and then mainlining more of Nirvana in Fire, where I can enjoy the fantasy of the good guys being honorable and then winning. I basically didn't sleep last night; I got four hours of fitful dozing before my brain started churning too much for even that much to continue. At some point I will crash. And at some point I'll assimilate the situation enough to get back to normal.

[aishabintjamil.livejournal.com]

It's not what I hoped, but I take heart from the fact that he didn't actually win the popular vote in raw numbers. There are, from the report I heard, 200,000 or so more voters who thought his path was the wrong one, than who agreed with him. And even some of those who agree with him are not evil people, just one-issue people who unfortunately happened to find he was on the right side of their hot button and Hillary wasn't. I hope those generally decent people will stand up and say "No" to some of the more awful things that some of his supporters want to do.

And I take heart from the people who are responding to this by starting to organize to fight for important things like minority rights, women's issues, indigenous issues, and others during the dark times ahead.

[dyvan.livejournal.com]

and what you need to do, is batten down the hatches and go.....click: underneath the radar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BdC3frBCE8)

[sheff-dogs.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry, we did it in the UK and I was so hoping the US could avoid doing it. There does seem to be a worldwide swing towards intolerance of all sorts, hopfully it's reached as far as it will go and the swing back can start now.

[chickwriter.livejournal.com]

All the hugs and all the sorrow alongside you. It's going to be a tough time ahead.

I buried myself in work yesterday, in ranting via Slack to friends and just trying to get by.

I know we are all strong and the fight is just beginning, but right now, I just can't.

::more hugs::