Yesterday was weird. I was in a haze for part of the day.
I woke up and saw that Trump had won and I cried. No, I did not vote for Hilary either.
I am one of those “3rd party” voters that people are pissed at. Funny thing is, I didn’t even vote for one of the main ones. I voted for a guy that had absolutely no shot AT ALL. But I voted for him because after all my research, coupled with my beliefs there was nothing else, in good conscience, I could do.
This election was an emotional battering. I felt like I was choosing between the guillotine and a hanging. I am not even kidding you. It was torture, from all sides.
You all know that I am very active on social media. The last year or so has been just brutal. And yes, I put a few of my opinions out there, but thankfully nothing ever got too heated or disrespectful, certainly not from me. I consider myself a pretty moderate person, who leans a little conservative. But I do not associate fully with either major party.
In a way, I feel done with our democracy and the the government that we now have. I believe it it is still a better system than many have, and I know there are checks and balances, but I feel at this point, things are so corrupt and we are so divided as a country, that we maybe should scrap things and start over.
I know that sounds radical and that it will more than likely never happen. That’s just how desperate I feel as one lone, disillusioned American.
I think many of us are in a little bit of shock that Donald Trump is our president-elect. I think even people who voted for him are. I think many were just assuming Hilary was going to win; there was no way he could. Well, he did.
So here we are, in 2016, looking forward to having someone with no political experience, who is known across the world for being not-the-nicest-guy (understatement of the year) and a reality t.v. star, as our president. I am not going to lie it’s a hard pill for me to swallow.
So all I can do from this chair in my little home office, in Lafayette, LA, U.S.A. is hope and pray that things will be alright for this nation and for my little family and those I love. I will admit, I am not an activist, never have been. So I know, some would say I cannot complain since that is the case. Many people do not have that fire in them. Many of us just want to live our lives in a peaceful and normal way.
But it’s possible this election has caused me to realize – perhaps I do have to stand up more and speak up more for what I believe.
I don’t know… I just feel like something has to change.
Yes! Totally agree and thinking we may have voted for the same person. I really do think the time is coming it has come that we need to take more of a stand. Can’t leave it to the extremes from either side.
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I haven’t been able to stop crying today. I posted this on a friends fb pages today. He was voicing his rage over this election. All I can say is I wish I was mad. I like you just got back on fb. But unlike you my anger has faded. I have moved on to a deep sadness. Not at the prospect of enduring this ignorant tyrant for the next 4 years. The next 4 years while fly by hopefully swiftly.
I have been in tears for 2 days not weeping for he future but the past 35 years of my life which have apparently been a lie!
I came to this country as an immigrant and was fooled into believing that I was received with open arms. I have only ever been an American and never identified as anything else.
Come to find out that was bs that if I were to migrate here from another country now the door would be slammed in my face at best.
It saddens me that Americans have lost sight of what made America great to begin with. It wasn’t our economy or ability to keep our country secure. It was our diversity that made us great.
It was the idea that we could breach the divide of our differences and be stronger for that union.
Apparently all lies! Because if you are fooling yourself into believing that Donald Trump is more than a self serving egomaniac your are in for more pain than I’m currently feeling.
Ask yourself question…what has Donald Trump ever done in either his private life or public life that leads you to believe that he has ever done anything in service of others.
Answer….nothing! And he has just been elected into the highest office of public service!
America what the F*CK were you thinking?
Yesterday I woke up feeling like an immigrant in my own country for the first time in 36 years. For the first time in my life I felt like a foreigner who would not be welcomed.