Have my fellow red staters also felt lonely since Nov 9th? [View all]

[butdiduvote]

I've always hated living here, but it was bearable because, even if the people around me were backwards thinking folks who would gleefully take away my rights given the chance, I still lived in a country that was more blue than it was red and I still knew I was on the side of reality. Now that these fuckers are emboldened, my stress levels living here are through the roof. I feel like I can't even do things I used to do to escape when life got to be too much such as go on a long walk because I'm fully aware that 70% of the people I smile at while they walk by are Trump voters who are quite proud of themselves for dashing my hopes of a caring, inclusive government. No one is physically doing anything to me, yet I feel under attack in a sense. I don't belong here. These people don't understand me.

I know living in a blue area won't make everything about our current situation magically better and that there will still be a fair number of conservatives nearby literally anywhere, but I guess it's the proportion that would make a world of difference. I so wish I could afford to leave here.