# How I'm Feeling After This Election **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 9, 2016, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-im-feeling-after-this-election/771178 "2016-11-09T10:59:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![grayhairedmomma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/47e85d/32.png) [@grayhairedmomma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grayhairedmomma)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-im-feeling-after-this-election/771178/41 "2016-11-11T03:12:56Z")
A few years ago, I read the book “Am I a Murderer?”, which was the novelization of a diary kept by a Jewish man who chose to become a ghetto policeman in a futile effort to save his own family. All day today, I kept thinking about all the immigrants in my community - and the fact that I look like one even though my father is white and my mother’s people were slaves in this country. There are so many people in my community who speak almost no English **despite** being **legal** immigrants. I keep wondering what will I do, how can I stand up for them if there does come a day where there is a massive force rounding up people who can’t immediately prove their right to be here. What will happen to my next door neighbor’s daughter if that day comes? She’s mildly mentally-disabled and doesn’t speak english very well - but they’re here legally. So far it’s been safe for her to be out in the community on her own. I want to hide everyone to keep them safe. I do feel deeply betrayed by my countrymen for making it possible for our country to be ripped apart like this. How many Latinos will join this force and be overzealous in going after others, in an effort to try and keep their own families safe? Or will it truly be a race war with a force with only white people? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-im-feeling-after-this-election/771178/42 "2016-11-11T03:19:16Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > It’s important not to panic; Just breathe. I’m finding this helpful: [Post-election meditation by Sharon Salzburg (YouTube)](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3hWuEHDhSFQ). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-im-feeling-after-this-election/771178/43 "2016-11-11T03:21:05Z")
Well, to be safe, you could tattoo your social security number on your arm… ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-im-feeling-after-this-election/771178/44 "2016-11-11T04:34:43Z")
This Canadian has the same 9/11 feeling, with a little bit of drawn-out 2007/08 Wall Street/subprime mortgage gong show-ery thrown in, plus a tiny smattering of the landslide Reps regaining the chamber in '10. Yesterday (Wed.) was not only bright and sunny but also unseasonably warm, but this gardener was putzing around with dumb ideas like…the weather was ironically nice just to rub it in with what happened the previous night. A lot of people I’m talking to are saying they’re glad they’re Canadian, which, while I’ll grant I’m thankful for, is a fact that still does not really give me that much solace. huh - the Canadian immigration website crashing. (trust me - I’m being fearful/dismayed, not smug, when I note that) Not looking forward to a lot more wincing than usual at the news. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-im-feeling-after-this-election/771178/45 "2016-11-11T05:14:20Z")
> [@RobotDevilDog](#): > > At first, I couldn’t put my finger on how I was feeling, other than it was very negative. But then it hit me. I feel the same way I did after 9/11. > > Don’t get me wrong, 9/11 was the far more serious and destructive of the two tragedies, and I don’t want to insult the memory of those who lost their lives 15 years ago. But the way I feel after this election is the same sense of fear, horror and hopelessness I felt for a long time after 9/11. > > Does anyone else get a similar feeling? I was stunned. I really hadn’t believed Trump could win. I had the same thought you did about how this compared to 9/11. But unlike you, I feel Trump’s election is worse than 9/11. The terrorist attack was over in a day and brought the nation together. Trump’s election will tear the nation apart for the next four years. And unlike 9/11, we did this to ourselves. But the United States survived 9/11. Hopefully we will survive a Trump presidency as well. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-im-feeling-after-this-election/771178/46 "2016-11-11T05:30:49Z")
> [@RobotDevilDog](#): > > At first, I couldn’t put my finger on how I was feeling, other than it was very negative. But then it hit me. I feel the same way I did after 9/11. > > Don’t get me wrong, 9/11 was the far more serious and destructive of the two tragedies, and I don’t want to insult the memory of those who lost their lives 15 years ago. But the way I feel after this election is the same sense of fear, horror and hopelessness I felt for a long time after 9/11. > > Does anyone else get a similar feeling? The last time I felt this way was right after my husband died. So, yeah. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-im-feeling-after-this-election/771178/47 "2016-11-11T07:18:25Z")
The last time I was really upset over an election was 2004. Since then I’ve grown jaded and black hearted, perhaps as a defense mechanism. I feel like a lot of potential was flushed down the toilet. The comparison to a natural disaster is apt though, since I can’t stop following the horrified reactions to it. I’ve been collecting some from other sites, mostly Reddit and Twitter. There’s a wide range of gallows humor, disbelief, sadness, and moral outrage. > [@](#): > > Jeb! and Bernie got crushed. Trump takes the throne. See? Nice guys do finish last. > [@](#): > > Trump beating Hillary feels like every meathead jock calling the valedictorian an ugly bitch and everyone giving him high fives. > > But ya know, it’s totally understandable and not insane at all because…E-MAILS. > [@](#): > > Liberals will be admonished as smug, disconnected from suffering, as if so many Democratic voters were unacquainted with poverty, struggle, and misfortune. > [@](#): > > Let the Kansasification of America begin! > [@](#): > > President Obama and the Democrats saved the auto industry for Michigan and Ohio over the objections of Republicans, and Michigan and Ohio voted yesterday for the same people who wanted to destroy their jobs and communities 8 years ago. So yeah — fuck them. > [@](#): > > “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” - Melania Trump > [@](#): > > If I had $1000 dollars for every sit-up Donald could do, I’d have as much money as he donated to that 9/11 charity [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-im-feeling-after-this-election/771178.md?page=2)