OK, the election is over.\u00a0 I really can’t believe that I live in a land where there is such a thing as a President Trump.\u00a0 But here we are, and here I am.<\/p>\n
Almost from the day I started this blog, I have decried the voices of hate that (I thought) used the anonymity of the internet to express their bullying, angry, insulting selves.\u00a0 They would express it on Yahoo comments, on YouTube comments, on the comments on your local online newspaper.\u00a0 If there anything the internet taught me, it is that people are a lot more mean in their hearts than I ever imagined.<\/p>\n
And now Trump has brought the meanness out in the open and legitimized it, to an extent that Rush Limbaugh could only have fantasized.\u00a0 The meanness will no longer be confined to internet comments — the mean people are now unleashed to express their anger and hate in all sorts of public forums.\u00a0 Trump has given them a free pass.<\/p>\n
I fear what’s ahead, and I am not alone.<\/p>\n
I admit that I have withdrawn from the political posts of my Facebook friends since the election.\u00a0 I just can’t read any more about Trump’s children or Trump’s transition team or Trump’s lawsuits.\u00a0 I have been done in by the events, by the zeitgeist, by the hate.<\/p>\n
I watched the Charlie Rose\/Jon Stewart video and, though I love Jon Stewart, I disagree with him that this nation, as populated, is the shining star of democracy he proclaims.\u00a0 Hateful, selfish people don’t want democracy.\u00a0 They want their way.\u00a0 And they live here.\u00a0 The Walking Dead of Democracy.<\/p>\n
I will never support anyone who wants to deny their fellow travelers in this democracy their dignity, their right to observe their religion or lack of it, their right to live as the gender that they know themselves to be, their right to be free of harassment because of the color of their skin or the neighborhood they live in.\u00a0\u00a0 This more than anything is what is depressing about President Trump and his adherents.<\/p>\n
It feels like the playground bullies have won.\u00a0 I have to step away from the playground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OK, the election is over.\u00a0 I really can’t believe that I live in a land where there is such a thing as a President Trump.\u00a0 But here we are, and here I am. Almost from the day I started this … Continue reading