For those who are mourning after this election

     
*** UPDATE TO THIS POST… I had the wrong video linked.. I apologize for the error. The correct one is now below.

 A friend of mine said she’s  so tired of all the whiners who didn’t get what they wanted on November 9th.  She continued with a hefty –get over it already, move on. She chides the protesters, how foolish! …   Of course, she got what she wanted. 

     I’m weary of all the facebook posts, tweets and news coverage because it was and is indeed EXHAUSTING.  I’m tired. I’m angry. I’m sad.    There’s no question, I’m grieving.  There are many reasons to grieve, in no way do I compare my grief to that of someone who has lost a loved one, I need to be clear, but all grief is real.   I cried several times in recent days and I’m not a crier.  That caught me by surprise. ——- the raw emotion, why has this affected me so much… 

H*llary’s speech – what an example of Grace, of Dignity, of Truly Giving a Shit about the unity of this country, about what we as a nation  are supposed to stand for.   I wasn’t her biggest fan, but her critics want only to see her flaws and  they embellish them for their own purposes. They refuse to acknowledge facts and 30 years of public service among other things.  When I think of how she has been treated by the establishment and her own husband at times, I hurt for her.  I’m not offended that she was ambitious… it takes ambition to get any good works done,  and even the best among us have flaws.  She had the courage to battle for many years the misogyny,  the cruel jokes and merciless persecution by the worst of the good ole boys, what I now call members of  the swamp.   Amazing to put aside all the anger she must have felt at the hateful rhetoric  spewed all over her during this campaign, to speak to us all for the sake of the country, asking us to unify and support the President Elect because we need him to succeed in order for us to succeed. Thank you, Hillary Clinton, for your good grace in a time of graceless behavior.  –  That awful morning, while half of us shook our heads in disbelief, I listened to her speak, and I cried. 

  Tr*mp sat down with the President – we all saw the coverage – my heart ached for  a man who rose above all that hateful vitriol he faced for five years from the president elect… exuding nothing but Grace in welcoming the demagogue.   What it must have taken.   The words were gracious, the body language telling.  How hard that must have been.  I cried for him. I cried for all of us… I cried for the Grace that is leaving the white house. 

     

   For this election because of it’s nature, I voted not for a party, not solely for policy issues, not for a gender or ethnicity,  but for the basic ingredient I feel every politician should be held accountable.  Decency.  I voted against bigotry, racism, hate speech, mysogeny, bullying, ethnic slurs, social media abuses.   Yes, I’m angry that half of us were willing to forgo decency at it’s very core for whatever reasons were considered more important. …. and I’m not getting over it very soon.    If you’re reading this and you’re grieving too, I hear you. We’re not whining, we’re not poor losers – as half of We The People see it, the dignity of our country was at stake and we all lose when it falls to the gutter.   If you voted for Trump, I’m crying for you, too. 

 Thank you SNL, for hitting the nail on the head…