I was one of those people. It was obnoxious, and mortifying, it showed weakness and lack of resolve to the crowing Trump voters who mocked these displays of emotion a every opportunity. We needed to be strong, tough, resolute and stoic. Plus for a lot of guys images of women crying are incredibly uncomfortable to see. On a visceral emotional level I just didn’t want them to exist.
Then I thought …you know what… fuck it… these are people who saw their dreams crash and burn… who is anyone to make fun of someone in that moment of agony. Granted it doesn’t make for a great photo op to have your side wailing, but it’s human and real. And I’d rather be on that side.
I’m enjoying watching those Trump supporters learn the reality and stupidity of what they did by supporting him.
-That Trump is a big liar and now saying he will not do what he promised. (The Trump supporters have a sort of sick look on their faces now.)
-And that much of what Trump supporters were claiming about Hillary/Trump was in fact “Fake News” from at least one Russian, they were suckers to believe it, and now must live with their choice!
The American Right voted in a pro-choice atheist, married to a woman born and raised a Communist. Not too sure why the Left is complaining.
Seriously, though, sometime in the 1760s, the British Colonials attained, by many metrics, the highest per capita standard of living in the world: calorie consumption, meat consumption (over 200lbs a year in the 1760s), freedom of movement, low taxes, massive (by European standards) individual land holdings, little aristocracy, comparably unhibited press freedoms, a fluid social structure, massive, vast amounts of natural resources… I could go on.
America has always been about people who have it better than everyone else, complaining they don’t have it good enough. So protesters have never bothered me, especially if they use the comforts and resources provided by America to protest America. Good for them!
(I remember people protesting the first Gulf War, calling it a war for oil, while camping out with plastic tents and using generators for heat. Nothing could be more American. )
I am not a Trump supporter in the least and I don’t usually like to see anyone cry but I have to admit that I took some satisfaction in seeing the neo-Puritans (aka SJW’s and the far Left) being bitch-slapped back into reality and losing their shit after the results. I am all for free speech but I don’t like feeling I am living inside a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel that can’t be escaped. I could always just walk away from fundamentalist tent revivals in my youth but The Left today finds you and won’t leave.
What I really want for Christmas is for The Left to learn to be less annoying somehow (I know, that wish is up there with hoping that Russia will do the right thing and understanding women but one can dream). The sad thing is that they probably do have some good people and ideas in there somewhere but they don’t realize that their circle jerk has turned into a rat king.
Whining and crying about losing is stupid and pointless. That’s why I gave up the practice when I was 5 years old. It also used to be the standard reaction of Republicans whenever they lost because they believed every bit of partisan bullshit they ever heard. Gloating over a victory is just as bad. The election is over so everybody should shut up and wait to see what happens. There will be plenty for both sides to argue about.
Ain’t that the truth. And it’s the hubris that got one… One day a great composer will make an opera in slo-mo: ‘That Night at Javits’ Center’.
Still it depends on national culture, and willingness to show incontinent emotion: I would not blame a Russian for getting drunk in such circumstances, nor an Austrian for freezing up, nor an American for letting the tears flow like wine. Condemning people for their feelings is cruel.
I’ll admit to being annoy at the more extreme reactions I’ve heard from people I know. I voted for HRC, with a clearer sense of supporting the candidate then when I forced myself to vote for Kerry/Edwards. However, I know people who said things along the lines of “I can’t believe the way my country betrayed us” and of course, “All Trump supports are racists idiots” and the like. The truth is HRC was a terrible candidate who may of made a fine President. But she has little charisma, was strongly disliked by too many and of course the mishandling of the Email server crap.
More importantly, she failed to appeal to the rust belt, something someone like Sanders probably would have done far better at. She seem to say whatever the she thought the group she was addressing wanted to hear. She was not a good candidate, don’t act so shocked she found a way to lose. I wish the Democrats had a better candidate, I wish the Republicans also had a better candidate. John Kasich was the best of the large bunch and also had no charisma. But at least the distrust and hatred level was fairly low for him.
I didn’t vote for Trump, but I don’t have eye rolls enough for people wailing about not getting the outcome they wanted in this election - they felt they were robbed of something they all thought they had a right to expect, as if there had never been another possible outcome considered by any of them. A bigger bunch of whining, entitled adults I never thought I’d see. I can’t imagine why they weren’t ashamed to react so childishly, and admit that they had publically, like some of my coworkers e-mailing everyone about how much crying they’d been doing.
However, be assured that if he’d somehow gotten the nomination, there would have been wild hand-waving from the Left about his being an apocalyptic threat to progressive values.
Nah, all you have to do is take away their health insurance and install people in power who encourage treating homosexuality and transgenderism as mental diseases that need to be fixed. That covers at least three right there.
His white nationalist followers certainly will; it’s what such people do, after all. And there’s destroying the economy, collapsing the international system of treaties and alliances, his fetish for nuclear warfare, the elimination of all safety nets and regulations, the rollback of civil rights, and on and on.
I expect the Trump/Republican death toll to be large, worldwide and ongoing for decades.
One of my friends is a very outspoken pro-HRC sort who took the election results so badly that it galvanized her to lead the charge in her neck of the woods to calling members of Congress, as well as Senate, protesting anything and everything regarding Trump’s impending appointments, policies, etc. She posts daily on FB the results of such. Although she cannot stand Jill Stein, she’s now behind her in demanding recounts in the swing states.
She has a ton “followers” on FBl; ergo, sometimes over half my feed is them either ranting or mobilizing the troops, so to speak.
I get it. I do. OTOH part of me wants to scream STFU AND STOP LITTERING MY FEED. If I did that, though, her crew would brand me a heretic BECAUSE YOU DON’T CARE.
I submit that the one has absolutely nothing to do with the other, given that the vast majority of the transgender, poor, gay, black, non-Christian and female populations did not behave like entitled whiners and crybabies (female? 43% voted for Trump). It was mostly those who were over-impassioned, over-committed, immature and gullible enough to believe left-wing lies, false characterizations and exaggerations about Trump who behaved that way.
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