WHY
6 November 2024, 08:44
I no longer believe in the inherent good.
I really don’t.
84 million people turned out to vote this year, from the last result I read.
158 million people voted in 2020.
I no longer feel that 50% of the voters were duped. Or mislead. Or voted out of ignorance.
We have seen this man. We have seen the truth of him. His racism, his sexism, his criminality, his grift. We have seen him idolize mass murders, dictators. We have seen him in all his callousness and his hunger for adoration and power.
His enemies are science, learning, peace and inclusiveness. We have seen him lie and spread falsehoods, misinformation, panic and dangerous allegations. We have seen him use the desperation and fear of people to further his own agenda, his own reality.
And yet. He has the support of roughly 50% of all eligible voters.
I do not believe you people are duped. I do not believe you people do not see. I believe you are willfully blind and threw your lot in with this petty dictator and racist because you believe. He courts all that I hold in contempt. He’s has made racism and heartlessness mainstream and accepted. There are fascists and nazis who feel safe and free in his warm embrace. Who even now, move against their enemies openly and with vigor because they know the protection they will receive. He has condoned and encouraged violence as a means of interaction amongst the people. He and his supporters have blood on their hands, quite literally.
He has vilified education and journalism and made common pride in ignorance. I am more than sad this morning. I have a hole in my heart for all the people this man, and his supporters – the ones in the halls of government as well as the ones that live next to me – all the people that will suffer because of his character and ignorance allows the worse impulses of our government to now run unchecked.
From the disrespect and disregard he holds for women, minorities, LGBTQ, foreigners, immigrants to the lack of knowledge he has when it comes to basic governance and economics, I feel that he will damage this country. I don’t know how irrevocable it will all be. But. It is immense. I am heartbroken and somber. Not because he’s welcomed into our big tent the most vile of polices, individuals and actions, but its because he has exposed to me that, indeed, these people believe, that they were always there, and now they have found their champion. They support him and have stood to be counted with everything I deplore and fear.
Today. I fear for the character of our country. I fear for those who will be hurt by the polices and actions of those we put into power. I fear that the path has been so filled with obstacles, that it might have fundamentally changed what it means to be an American.
I am not so much mad as mournful. Tomorrow, I will rise and begin the good fight yet again, but today, I grieve for what we have lost today, the opportunity for a new path, and the killing of our promise to be the better people.
