I feel I have a lot to get off my chest
I've been wanting to post here since Tuesday, certainly wanted to all day yesterday, but couldn't.
I hadn't slept since early Tuesday morning, was so distraught at what took place Tuesday night and during the middle of the night that I got absolutely no sleep whatsoever until last night.
The overall reaction I've felt is I'm mortified, but I can't say I'm entirely surprised because we see how short of a memory the American voter has, and nobody seemed to be phased by any criminal activity or threat posed to our country for the past 10 years. People in this country really decided they wanted to bring back someone who badly bungled a crisis in 2020, then proved to be the causation of another crisis in early 2021, while committing additional crimes with documents along the way. It's as if nothing matters. I don't recognize the country I was born and raised in and have lived in all my life, as if everything I was taught about my country growing up was a lie in 2016 and further reinforced from the past four years and concluding on Tuesday. I've never traveled outside the US, but I feel like a foreigner nevertheless.
I guess the thing that surprises me most is not just the ticket splitting, where we did somewhat well down the ballot in state races and referendums, only for the election to play out the way that it did. Another thing that surprises me was how well we performed in elections from 2018 through 2023. If we were in trouble, I'd have thought there would be more signs, but we won the House back in 2018, many governorships, too. We won full control in 2020, did pretty well for a 2022 midterm in keeping the Senate, winning governor's mansions and just losing the House by the skin of our teeth while doing well in special elections in 2023.
I sure wasn't going to take Tuesday for granted, knew it would be tough, but am baffled given the aforementioned because I thought we'd find 270.
I can't say I'm too angry, though I am hurt to an extent, but what I'm really feeling at this point is just apathy. You cannot save a country that doesn't want to save itself and I just cannot have sympathy or care anymore.
And I look at the demographics. Any Latino who voted for their own deportation gets no sympathy from me, if any woman can't be treated during a life-threatening pregnancy, can't travel out of state or if, forbid, is traumatized because she was impregnated against her will, I can't find myself to care if she voted for the problem to begin with. Any LGBTQ+ member who voted for this and is further dehumanized only has themselves to blame.
Any senior who voted for this, I'll have no sympathy if/when there are cuts to their Medicare and Social Security, and when the tariffs start pouring in, I don't want to hear a single word from any farmer who voted for this.
None of them are allowed to complain. If they're looking for sympathy, it's in the dictionary.
They chose to put their hands on the stove, and I hope all of them get burned for it. I'll still vote for what I think is right, while I still can, and I'll still vote against what I think is wrong, while I still can, but there's no point exhausting myself over America being burned to the ground because that's what people voted for. If they want to burn this country down, I don't care anymore, just leave myself and everyone else who wanted no part of this lunacy alone.
But if there are still going to be elections in 2026 and 2028, it's our side who will likely be handed mops to clean up even bigger messes than ever before.
So, I hope they enjoy their 30 pieces of silver in the form of cheaper eggs, cheaper milk and cheaper gas - as prices will just magically lower on January 20.
My pain is reserved for those who didn't vote for this, who voted against this, the innocent ones who are going along this bumpy ride that might result in us all being driven off a cliff. That's whom I hurt for in all of this.