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uberreinigerWhat follows is from a comment I left in someone else's LJ, but as I think about it, I think it sums up everything I have felt in regards to the election aftermath.
"I have normally accounted my ability to see both sides of things as a blessing, but not this year. I can only imagine that there must be great comfort in knowing that one's own side is right and that everyone else is wrong/evil/a monster. I have spent most of the last year wondering what I should do on November 2nd and now spent most of this past day wondering if I did the right thing. (That was really the source of most of my depression.) I suppose I should just let it go since you can't unring a bell, put toothpaste back into the tube, or any number of other tired aphorisms for not being able to change something once it's happened. At least my own struggle is largely within myself. I'm looking around me seeing people shedding actual tears over this election's outcome, seeing friendships torn apart... It doesn't leave me with a very good attitude about what we have become. Or may become still."
So that's it, short and sweet; all the more I will say on the election issue. Now if you'll all excuse me, I need to go see about overturning Roe vs. Wade, as if overturning it were a brand new idea no one has tried before. Then I need to redunantly write some already-existing laws into some state constitutions depriving gay people of rights they already didn't have. After that I need to alienate some international allies who never really liked us in the first place.
And when all that's over with, I will say "fuck you" to anybody who can't take a joke.
"I have normally accounted my ability to see both sides of things as a blessing, but not this year. I can only imagine that there must be great comfort in knowing that one's own side is right and that everyone else is wrong/evil/a monster. I have spent most of the last year wondering what I should do on November 2nd and now spent most of this past day wondering if I did the right thing. (That was really the source of most of my depression.) I suppose I should just let it go since you can't unring a bell, put toothpaste back into the tube, or any number of other tired aphorisms for not being able to change something once it's happened. At least my own struggle is largely within myself. I'm looking around me seeing people shedding actual tears over this election's outcome, seeing friendships torn apart... It doesn't leave me with a very good attitude about what we have become. Or may become still."
So that's it, short and sweet; all the more I will say on the election issue. Now if you'll all excuse me, I need to go see about overturning Roe vs. Wade, as if overturning it were a brand new idea no one has tried before. Then I need to redunantly write some already-existing laws into some state constitutions depriving gay people of rights they already didn't have. After that I need to alienate some international allies who never really liked us in the first place.
And when all that's over with, I will say "fuck you" to anybody who can't take a joke.
