We have, and we should be clear about this, heard EVERY god damned stupid hateful bigoted backward anti-science alternate-reality fact-free gaslighting gun-humping Muslim-bashing gay-hating transphobic xenophobic mysoginistic thing the other "half" of the country has had to say.
I'm done with listening what they have to say. It's dull and wrong and ignorant and predicable and failed.
It's their turn to listen now. Or not. They can fuck off. That would be great. I don't give a shit.
We don't seek their approval and we don't need their permission.
They lost the election. Time for them to sit on their mats and have a quiet time while grown ups clean up their mess and try to get a tourniquet on this domestic white supremacist terrorist thing that appears to have been their main "idea."
The lesson to be learned from an election that ejected the first sitting president in 30 yrs is not "now we have to listen some more to what the losers, who are the most over-listened-to group of people in human history, have to say. It's nothing useful, but there's a lot of it."
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Unless this means creating a national health care plan that takes care of all sick people, unless it means true equality for all LGBTQ people, unless it means neighborhoods free of police brutality, unless it means restoration of voting rights, what does it mean?
Unless this means independent commissions to investigate the crimes of the prior administration, so the truth can be told about the harm done and reparation made to those damaged, what does it mean?
That is very very very good. I am beyond relieved. Hundreds of thousands of people will likely now live who would have died. We will have basic competence and a certain minimum level of human decency and minimum level respect for human life in the executive branch again.
For the next four years at least, we won't be held hostage to the whims of a corrupt and ignorant white supremacist fascist.
Those who voted for Biden must accept this challenge over the next 4 years:
Realize even if Trump disappears, the active eager intent that summoned him to bring exclusion, harm, pain, cruelty, and death to already vulnerable people is still very active, intentional, and eager.
I really hope Joe Biden realizes A) it's the people who did vote for him that gave him the election, not the people who very obviously are never ever going to vote for him, and B) both sets of people will see their lives improved by the things the former want and the latter hate.
The problem with this theory is it put these things in the wrong order. Every single problem that drives bigoted insecurity has a solution that the bigot atavistically fears because they'd rather have death than share that solution with the people they hate.
But even if true ...
... even if true, my point is we're not going to achieve these solutions by working with people who want the problems.
We have to do it without seeking their support or their permission. They want the death. They'll fight for it.
As there are numerous groups that Trump and his supporters have subjected to menace, harm, exclusion, and death, and unrepentantly intend to continue to do so to the extent they can: yes. Yes there are many groups that could use our empathy.
Remember our national reality is best understood on an axis of abuse and enablement. Enablement of abuse has become so traditional, it’s uncritically presented as virtue.
Wondering when rural elites will reach out of their conservative bubbles to understand how they can win over the hearts and minds of hardworking Real Americans from the urban heartland, some of whom work multiple jobs but get as little as 10% as much representation in government.
Faraway rural elites don’t understand the struggle and economic anxieties that heartland urban Americans are going through in our neglected cities. I visited this Cleveland parking lot barbecue to interview “real Americans” on what their concerns are and what motivated their vote
It won't be enough for rural elites to simply express their outrage at the vote from urban areas; they're going to have to engage in introspection and listen to the real concerns that working-class everyday Americans have, who live in the cities they've rarely—if ever—visited.