How are you doing?
That’s the text I received from a friend two days after the 2924 Presidential Election.
Response: Not great to be honest.
Allow me explain.
This isn’t like 2016 when the results came in and I sobbed uncontrollably because I was afraid.
Afraid that my rights to be married to the person I love deeply would be revoked.
This time, I am numb.
Numb because hate won. This isn’t about your political party. This is about America’s morale compass.
We live in a country where half of the country celebrated, tolerated and rewarded hate.
The following are FACTS not opinions.
Half of this country or more are ok with what happened on January 6, 2020. The photos and videos are real.
Half of the country voted for a convicted felon to the highest office that a person can hold in this country.
Half of this country voted for a rapist who had to pay over 83 million dollars to a woman he assaulted.
Half of this country voted for a racist who has vowed to deport people who don’t look like him.
Half of this country voted for a man who will deny women healthcare if she is pregnant and can’t carry a fetus to term.
Half of this country voted for a man who stacked the Supreme Court and has immunity.
Half of this country voted for a man who has vowed to revoke gay marriage, interracial marriage, ban books from schools, the list goes on.
Half of this country voted for a man that has told us he will be a dictator.
Half of this country voted for a man who told us we’ll never have to vote again.
Half of this country sits amongst us.
The hate sits amongst us.
Privilege sits amongst us.
The privilege used to help those that don’t look like me or my family.
These are the things that I’m struggling with because I can’t reconcile in my mind how this is possible.
This is why I’m not doing great.
Until the next,
Elisa
Courtesy of Vanity Fair
Courtesy of Katharina Buchholz, Data Journalist