I'm amazingly angry, and I'm not even a US citizen, though I live in the US. (For now. As a non-Christian non-American, I'm likely to be splashed by policies not actually aimed at polite non-Muslim non-accented _white_ folks with money :-() I don't know why I cared about this election - I never have before, and I've lived in the US since 1992. I'm having what amount to a tribal reaction - even though I tend to identify as working class/poor, that being how I grew up.
But the refrain in my head this morning is "lock her up". And that's where my inclination to dress in black this morning is coming from, and to refer to der Fuhrer. I'm actually not sure I'm calm enough to risk going to work, with my Christian Republican Trump-supporting boss.
I don't think that Trump will doing anything to help his key constituency, except perhaps emotionally, by making them feel listended to and powerful. I understand why they mostly felt pretty certain that Clinton wouldn't help them either, and I mostly agree with that judgement.
And I haven't yet had the courage to look at the impact of election on my investments, and thus my prospects for retirement.
Thank you for thinking about the real victims. And reminding me of that.
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I'm amazingly angry, and I'm not even a US citizen, though I live in the US. (For now. As a non-Christian non-American, I'm likely to be splashed by policies not actually aimed at polite non-Muslim non-accented _white_ folks with money :-() I don't know why I cared about this election - I never have before, and I've lived in the US since 1992. I'm having what amount to a tribal reaction - even though I tend to identify as working class/poor, that being how I grew up.
But the refrain in my head this morning is "lock her up". And that's where my inclination to dress in black this morning is coming from, and to refer to der Fuhrer. I'm actually not sure I'm calm enough to risk going to work, with my Christian Republican Trump-supporting boss.
I don't think that Trump will doing anything to help his key constituency, except perhaps emotionally, by making them feel listended to and powerful. I understand why they mostly felt pretty certain that Clinton wouldn't help them either, and I mostly agree with that judgement.
And I haven't yet had the courage to look at the impact of election on my investments, and thus my prospects for retirement.
Thank you for thinking about the real victims. And reminding me of that.