YOU CAN'T GO BACK

Our country is full of anger and hate that has been hiding under a rock until someone came along and said it was ok to be that way. It surprises me that people are so surprised by that. It might not have been obvious, but it’s always been there.

I said all along Trump was going to win because the DNC forced Hillary on us by throwing Bernie under the bus and cheating. With all due respect to white men, besides these I'm about to speak of - I got so sick of hearing scared white men claiming President Hillary was a done deal and they were going to have to pee sitting down. I found that to be beyond ignorant, and such a turn-off. No wonder these particular men are still single and miserable.

I’ve retired from posting anything political, informative or opinionated on Facebook and deleted all of my political posts from the past year. I did lose friends. Some didn’t like my stance, some didn’t like my message, some didn’t like my side, some didn’t like my humor, some changed my words and made it all about them, and all in that group ended up not liking me.

I have to wonder how good of friends these people were in the first place. I wonder about their thin skin and over-sensitivity in some cases, their hypocrisy and their great deal of anger at people that don’t think like them regarding politics. I have an opinion, just like everyone else. In the case of Facebook, if you don’t like it, stay off my page. But if you don’t like it and keep coming back and coming back for more, you are just looking for a fight and YOU’RE BAD, not me. But that doesn’t matter now because I’m done with the haters on that venue.

I have friends that are so upset over Trump, that they have stopped being friends with anyone that voted for him. I’m not going to go that far, but I do understand where they are coming from. It is hard to understand people who voted for him. You look at someone you thought you knew, and now they come striding in with statements like, “Multiply by 1000 how you feel about Trump as president and that’s how I felt when they put that nigger in the White House. The South shall rise again.” And another one, “I don’t hate niggers. Everyone should own one.” And another one, “Oh c’mon baby, c’mere let me rub your pussy. That’ll make you feel better about all this.”

This is what Trump has unleashed on America, on Americans. People are crying not because their candidate lost, but because Trump has given license for people to abuse one another. He opened the door and made it okay again for white people to hate minorities. He embraces segregation and encourages it. He has ushered in the antiquated era of molesting, sexually harassing and abusing women with no shame or consequences. Personally, I have been sexually harassed, molested and assaulted so many times I can’t remember all of them. Some stand out because they were particularly traumatic. But it has been so commonplace in my life that I just fought my way through it and went on. It left scars. It never got me any special favors. It just allowed me to keep a low-paying job.

People are crying because they don’t want to go backwards, not because their candidate lost. Blacks and women have fought for decades and decades for equality, dignity and respect from a foul, old, white man-ruled country which would just as soon have us for slaves, sex and maids, and equality be damned. That’s what we’re looking down the barrel of AGAIN!

Well, you can’t go back. Beaver Clever doesn’t live here anymore. He’s in a retirement home collecting Social Security. The old neighborhood has been upgraded. The tv’s are in color. Milk isn’t delivered to your doorstep anymore. We’re fighting GMO food now. We don’t just gaze at the moon, we explore space. Computers are the norm. Phones are wireless. Cars are smart. Gas isn’t 16 cents a gallon anymore, it’s $2.50. You can’t go back again!

Stop living in the past. Almost all of the Trump supporters I talked to wanted to make Christianity part of government, reminisced about their childhood and wanted to go back to the simple days of yore. You can’t go back! No matter what anyone tells you, YOU CAN”T GO BACK! For God’s sake, embrace the future!

People are crying because climate change is real. The earth is alive. You can get all wrapped up in your superficial world and hypocritically embraced technology, and try to ignore the fact that the earth is alive, but it will eventually chew you up and spit you out for abusing it. Earth changes have happened for billions of years and will continue to happen because, like I said, the earth is alive.

Then there’s the people factor. People are killing the earth AND the human race by polluting our oceans and rivers, fracking, land and air pollution, development and on and on with all the other things we do with disregard to the earth. People are crying because we have clean alternatives that our government won’t embrace because of greed and special interests that we just welcomed in with this new administration.

The electorate failed. It was created to prevent a Donald Trump from happening. That's another avenue that should be explored, election reform.  People are crying because 2/3 of the populous didn’t vote because they are apathetic. I hope they’re pleased with the results. They should have learned from Texas. That was our statistic too. The 1/3 that did vote are split, with the majority voting for Hillary. But the lesser half of that 1/3 won the electorate. And they want to go back in time to a simpler era. You can’t go back!

Children are crying because they’re scared. There is no reason not to take Trump at his word. People are crying because they realize that their country is full of anger, hate, racism, bigotry and misogyny. Whether you just voted for Trump for change is irrelevant. Your vote supported his message.  And his message was heard loud and clear throughout the WORLD and the people that voted for him embraced and ignored his lies and bad behavior.

We all agreed on what the problems were. We just disagreed on how to fix them. Unfortunately the disagreement was huge and divisive. Thankfully we have a system of checks and balances that might keep Trump in check. But, we are approaching the closest we’ve ever been to fascism, in my opinion. And we’re not out of the woods. Washington is very red now, and not the good kind of red. If this was Eisenhower-era red, we might be okay. But this is uncharted territory red that could be quite dangerous with this particular leader.

People aren’t crying because their candidate lost. People are crying because their ideals of a better America lost to a fury of anger. Only time will tell how all of this anger will manifest. Anger is a negative thing and usually only breeds negativity. But, we’ll see. One thing is certain, America will never be the same again. Let’s hope that’s not a bad thing, because you can’t go back.