i wonder how it feels to be a latin American person today, or to look like you might be? knowing that millions of your fellow citizens elected a person who wants to kick you out of the US and build a wall to keep you out. knowing that you have worked as hard as the immigrant grandparents of the people who want to see that wall erected. knowing you are not wanted.
i wonder what it feels like to be Muslim, or to follow any religious doctrine other than Christianity today? knowing that your coworkers and neighbors want you removed from the US, for fear that you could align with some of the worst people in the world -- based on the actions of a few people you truly abhor. knowing that you are viewed as a terrorist who needs to be dealt with, rather than a person who loves people and simply believes in a different god of Abraham.
i wonder what it feels like to be a lot of people in a variety of groups today who are not white privileged males, and how the future now looks. i wonder most how it feels to be a trump voter today. to feel some responsibility for that the fascist who is about to make the US more openly hateful and more directly xenophobic than it has been since the Native American holocaust. to know that you are partly responsible for mass suffering across the globe, at the hands of someone who's only experience with power is in his oft failing corporations.
1. even Bush Jr didn't vote for him.
2. trump lost the popular vote. this is in no way a democracy.
i feel sorry for everyone who has to live in the U.S.. it is a sad place. i feel very fortunate to be leaving, and i hope my daughter never has to live here.
