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I am American, and I have always loved my country. Until now, I've never been ashamed to call myself patriotic. My thought has always been than there will always be uninformed, uneducated assholes that vote against their own self-interests and the interests of their own country.
This election is different, though. We knew exactly what we were getting if we re-elected Trump. We responded by not only electing him in a landslide election, but handing the House and the Senate over to the Republicans, too. It was a clear message. America is not a nation of mostly good people with a few vocal "bad apples." We are a nation of hateful, scared bigots, and we proved it in a big way.
This was a turning point in American history, and the majority of us sent a clear message to their fellow citizens and to the world. America is not a nation of mostly good people being overshadowed by a media that covers the loudest assholes in the room. America is a nation of people who by a majority support exactly what the "crazy" Republicans are saying. I would feel better if Trump lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote, but that's not what happened.
This isn't an election where I've lost only lost faith in the democratic process or my fellow citizens, although both are true. This is an election where I've lost faith in my country as a whole. I have never been proudly Republican or proudly Democrat, but I've always been proudly American. Now I'm just... sad. I don't expect I'll see a day any time soon where I can honestly say I'm proud of my country. The best I can do is retreat into my own personal bubble, live my life, and watch the world burn around me until the flames consume everything I care about.
Take heart. Our fellow citizens are slow learners, and few of them have paid close attention to Trump and his shit forsaken privilege in escaping consequences since he left office.
It will be a long wait, but four years of unbridled trump will open a lot of eyes. Let them get a healthy, sustained dose of exactly what they didn't realize they asked for and then we rebuild.
And don't give away the House like that. It's not over yet, and with any luck that guardrail will remain.
We had that the last time he won. Apparently we forgot how bad it was. Hell, he probably would have won in 2020 if it hadn't been for COVID.
Honestly yeah. My hopes are at this point our electoral process does exactly what it just did. It's clear a lot of people went out and voted for him. Not a small group but a ton. And my resignment has just been "Okay, this is what you asked for, buckle up".
It's gonna suck ass and I really hope they don't start some bullshit that makes them squeak out of the mess they're about to step in. (They'll definitely try to) But let's give the American people exactly what they asked for and just try to stop the house from catching on fire while they realize what a bad idea it was.
I dont think Ill be alive in four years, if theres even an election