They don’t have my back
I’m deeply saddened and disappointed to learn so blatantly that a huge number of my fellow US citizens do not have my back. They don’t really care about law and order; they don’t really care about accountability or telling the truth; they don’t really care about the welfare of anyone but cis-het men (and even then only the white and Christian ones). These may not be the reasons they profess, but they are the effective outcomes of their vote.
I’m saddened that they would rather burn this country—and the world—to the ground before they have to care about other people, and they would elect the worst possible man to prove the point.
I’m saddened that they will eventually and inevitably also bear the pain inherent in their choices, but they may bear it with pride, because more pain will befall others. They’re ok with being robbed, as long as others are worse off.
It seems that we USians learn primarily through disaster (and sometimes not even then). But it’s clear to me today that there’s a pretty big group of us who seem determined to choose destruction rather than care for another human being.