Electile Dysfunction (Current students plz look!)

[G.Irish]

If you're to the point of tears over who got elected as president and needed to be handed tissues and hot chocolate you need a little introspection. And you also need to really educate yourself about what would actually have to happen for you to be legitimately oppressed in America today. One man taking office is not it.

Don't cry about who got elected for president, nobody is going to bang down your door and steal your kids, my God what is wrong with you peasants

Here's the thing. The man who just got elected president has not only said and done openly racist and misogynist things, he is someone who has brought people from the white nationalist movement into his circle, and he has played dumb about the support of the white supremacists. Trump's candidacy has served to legitimize and embolden people who are bigots.

There are many Americans for whom this is terrifying. It's not just about people being afraid of someone saying something mean and hurting their feelings or refusing to bake them cupcakes. It's about people being afraid of actual violence, actually being discriminated against, and having hard fought progress being turned back.

It's about people who genuinely believe in the American values of equality and tolerance seeing someone who actively flouted those values attaining the highest office in the land.

Some people just see it as whining, but a friend of mine was attacked and beaten for being gay a few years ago. This year, another person I know had a relative murdered by an ex-con white supremacist. People are genuinely afraid that there'll be more of this with Trump, rather than less.

Now we have to hope that someone who won the presidency while stoking the fire, will turn around and try to put it out.