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Transcribed from my pencil-and-paper journal entry for today:
I feel better than I did yesterday, a little bit. It has been less than a week since the USA utterly brainfarted and elected Trump as POTUS, but I have to say that it already feels like months or years. This is going to be a long four years. Lots of blame and finger pointing and excuses and rationalizations flying around, but the truth of the matter is that everyone in America has fucked up super terribly.
Obviously, all the people who voted directly for Trump are the biggest problem, so I won't dwell on them overmuch here, regardless of whatever braindead horrible reasons they might have for their actions, be it 4chan-style "lulz," honest support for the guy who best matched their evil racist/sexist/misogynist/xenophobic/white supremacist/homophobic/bigoted/etc. mindset, or the horrifically mistaken, incorrect, misguided, just plain wrong belief that Trump was somehow, someway simply better than Hillary.
The people who cast a "protest vote" for one of the 3rd party candidates, whether they truly supported the candidate or just misguidedly wanted to "stick it" to the mainstream. I'm just going to say it plain: in this election, a 3rd party vote was a de facto vote for Trump. Or, at best, it was no better than not voting at all.
Which brings us to the 46-47 percent of eligible voters who did not vote at all. Yeah, some of those would have voted for Hillary, some for Trump, some for 3rd party spoilers, but the point is that we'll never know, because they didn't fucking vote at all. If only a small portion of that almost half the country that didn't vote had turned out to vote for Hillary... well, you know.
Lastly, even the voters for Hillary fucked up, but this was more a pre-election fuck up. I don't know what we could have done to prevent this nightmare from coming true, but whatever that something was, we sure as fuck didn't do it. Shown more support for Bernie Sanders so that he would've been the Democratic nominee instead of Hillary? Perhaps. Did more to convince depressed Sanders supporters that it was more important to prevent a Trump presidency than to stick it to a DNC that they feel screwed them over by them voting for Trump instead of Hillary out of spite? Did more to prove that all the bullshit that has been thrown on the Clintons' name over the past two decades is indeed mostly just that: bullshit? Heaven forbid, did more to actually convince grudging Trump supporters (the diehards were already too far gone) to, you know, not support Trump, rather than merely lumping them together with all the racists, sexists, misogynists, xenophobes, white supremacists, homophobes, bigots and dismissing them altogether with ridicule and vilification?
I don't know. All I do know is that Donald Jizzdump Trump is *ugh*shiver* President-Elect now, and that this is all a result of a long, continual string of some of the biggest fuck ups this country, and the world, has seen in a very long time. It sucks shitty ass.
When I started the entry in my pencil-and-paper journal this morning, I hadn't been planning or intending to write so much about this bullshit again, but... I did, and there it is. *shrug*
I feel better than I did yesterday, a little bit. It has been less than a week since the USA utterly brainfarted and elected Trump as POTUS, but I have to say that it already feels like months or years. This is going to be a long four years. Lots of blame and finger pointing and excuses and rationalizations flying around, but the truth of the matter is that everyone in America has fucked up super terribly.
Obviously, all the people who voted directly for Trump are the biggest problem, so I won't dwell on them overmuch here, regardless of whatever braindead horrible reasons they might have for their actions, be it 4chan-style "lulz," honest support for the guy who best matched their evil racist/sexist/misogynist/xenophobic/white supremacist/homophobic/bigoted/etc. mindset, or the horrifically mistaken, incorrect, misguided, just plain wrong belief that Trump was somehow, someway simply better than Hillary.
The people who cast a "protest vote" for one of the 3rd party candidates, whether they truly supported the candidate or just misguidedly wanted to "stick it" to the mainstream. I'm just going to say it plain: in this election, a 3rd party vote was a de facto vote for Trump. Or, at best, it was no better than not voting at all.
Which brings us to the 46-47 percent of eligible voters who did not vote at all. Yeah, some of those would have voted for Hillary, some for Trump, some for 3rd party spoilers, but the point is that we'll never know, because they didn't fucking vote at all. If only a small portion of that almost half the country that didn't vote had turned out to vote for Hillary... well, you know.
Lastly, even the voters for Hillary fucked up, but this was more a pre-election fuck up. I don't know what we could have done to prevent this nightmare from coming true, but whatever that something was, we sure as fuck didn't do it. Shown more support for Bernie Sanders so that he would've been the Democratic nominee instead of Hillary? Perhaps. Did more to convince depressed Sanders supporters that it was more important to prevent a Trump presidency than to stick it to a DNC that they feel screwed them over by them voting for Trump instead of Hillary out of spite? Did more to prove that all the bullshit that has been thrown on the Clintons' name over the past two decades is indeed mostly just that: bullshit? Heaven forbid, did more to actually convince grudging Trump supporters (the diehards were already too far gone) to, you know, not support Trump, rather than merely lumping them together with all the racists, sexists, misogynists, xenophobes, white supremacists, homophobes, bigots and dismissing them altogether with ridicule and vilification?
I don't know. All I do know is that Donald Jizzdump Trump is *ugh*shiver* President-Elect now, and that this is all a result of a long, continual string of some of the biggest fuck ups this country, and the world, has seen in a very long time. It sucks shitty ass.
When I started the entry in my pencil-and-paper journal this morning, I hadn't been planning or intending to write so much about this bullshit again, but... I did, and there it is. *shrug*
