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I found myself today sitting and wondering what the hell the world is coming to. Social media is a joke. Media in general is a joke. Foreign interference with our elections. A felon president-elect. How? Why? How have we come to this? How has hate prevailed to the point that people would willingly choose to re-elect this man to run our country over a qualified woman?

Say what you want about Kamala, but she was always the right choice here. Was she my first choice? No. Hell she wasn’t my first choice when she was running in the primaries 4 years ago. But she was the right choice to lead our nation with common sense, dignity, and professionalism. What on earth will happen to our formerly great nation, now that this unqualified (rapist/felon/grifter/liar) man is going to take the helm of our government? So far its been one moronic and dangerous choice after another. I fear for what the history books will say about this time in our history.

I choose to be on the right side of history. I choose not to go down willingly. I choose not to surrender my human decency. I choose not to surrender to a want-to-be dictator, and I always choose democracy.

I have pondered over American politics for many years in many different ways and places, remaining critical of what direction the country is moving. Wanting, pushing, and needing us to be better. We deserve so much more than what we have settled for. Yet, I realize how far we have come, step by step, over the last 100 years. Hell, since our country was founded. The freedoms and liberties that we celebrate today were hard-fought and not given. But thats the thing about history, once it gets too far in the rearview mirror, people become emotionally distant to the effort that it took to earn those freedoms and rights we take for granted each day. You have young men and women wanting to go back to a time and place that never truly existed; a construct of the rose-colored glasses with which they view our past. The traditional values they believe America was founded on. That oh so elusive American Dream. The 50s never looked so good.

Except to women, people of color, immigrants, LGBTQIA+ folks, Native Americans, and all other communities that are not white males. These marginalized people have crawled up the hill inch by inch, perilously fighting to make their way to the top where they can be seen as equals and to live out their lives in peace. Rights have come slowly, painstakingly, and often violently. We cannot go back.

I don’t yet know how this will all play out. But what I do know, is that I will not sit idly by allowing our country and democracy to be stolen out from underneath us by a pack of greedy, evil, spiteful, disgusting traitors. Every single person that is okay with allowing that man to take power, and willing to lay down their dignity to give him what he wants, are cowards. From the media and politicians, to the people in our communities that turn a blind eye because they don’t think it will affect them. You know what he said he would do, and you were okay with it. You voted for him anyways. You do not love America. You do not love freedom and democracy. You love yourself. You are selfish. You did this.

Yet, we will not go down without a fight. We will watch with baited breath. We will tell the truth. We will not allow these lies, hate, and destructive actions to become normalized. Hold steadfast in the knowledge that 50% of America did not vote for this, and we shall overcome.

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