Like millions of Harris voters, I have been in a state of shock, grief and a stew of other emotions. The strongest of those is probably disappointment.
Until election night I still held onto the belief that at least a majority of American voters actually care about other people and about being Americans. It’s gotten a lot harder to believe that. The election was no landslide: Trump won by about 2.5 percent. But enough chose him to imperil the country’s existence.
The misinformation machine won. Fear won. Hatred, bigotry and racism won. Ignorance won.
So many people just do not care: about voting at all; about women’s right to timely medical care; that we are on track for an unlivable climate not just in our lifetimes but in this decade; that the 2025 Project is an actual plan and it’s coming. And we are about to learn what a tariff actually is (hint: China doesn’t pay it).
They don’t care that our girls are getting texts and taunts of “Your body, my choice.”
Thanks to Washington for voting in Ferguson and legislators who will work to hold the line against them.
