She didn't win.
And while that is upsetting enough as it is, the most shameful part of it all is that someone who has no experience with politics, has no real policies, and has stoked flames of violence and hatred in his country is now the president elect.
What's going to happen to people of colour, people with disabilities, people in the LGBTQIA community, and people from a religious minority? What's going to happen to people who don't have health insurance? What's going to happen to women who rely on reproductive health care? What's going to happen to our precious earth? Our resources are finite. And, right now, it feels like our love for one another is finite, too.
I've been feeling so disheartened since Tuesday night. My heart feels so much despair and fear and that's not usual for me. This feeling of desolation and utter abandonment is foreign to me; I can usually find the happier side to things, the silver linings on the cloudiest of days, but this feels too bleak.
This year has been awful in so many ways; we've lost beloved family members, as four of my friends lost grandparents this year; we've lost beloved artists, as we lost Bowie, then Prince, and now Leonard Cohen; and now we're on the precipice of losing respect for human lives, as the United States has elected a man who does not see all of us as equals.
This year has been awful. God help us in 2017.
What's going to happen to people of colour, people with disabilities, people in the LGBTQIA community, and people from a religious minority? What's going to happen to people who don't have health insurance? What's going to happen to women who rely on reproductive health care? What's going to happen to our precious earth? Our resources are finite. And, right now, it feels like our love for one another is finite, too.
I've been feeling so disheartened since Tuesday night. My heart feels so much despair and fear and that's not usual for me. This feeling of desolation and utter abandonment is foreign to me; I can usually find the happier side to things, the silver linings on the cloudiest of days, but this feels too bleak.
This year has been awful in so many ways; we've lost beloved family members, as four of my friends lost grandparents this year; we've lost beloved artists, as we lost Bowie, then Prince, and now Leonard Cohen; and now we're on the precipice of losing respect for human lives, as the United States has elected a man who does not see all of us as equals.
This year has been awful. God help us in 2017.
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