My Fellow Americans
How are you doing? How are we doing? Personally, I don’t know whether to cry or throw up. Or both. I have refrained from saying the most acerbic things about the U.S. electorate over the past however many years I’ve been saying them. I refrained because I want to see the best in people. I refrained because I can’t relate to how fearful and dark your view of the world has to be to support a man so grossly inadequate, petty, and small masquerading as a tough guy or even more laughable, an intelligent one. I refrained because I tend to operate from a space of hope and caring. I tend to care about and for the marginalized, the oppressed, the Other. We have all, at some point, been bullied, threatened, subject to anger, if not hatred. Many of us more than others. The positive outcome can be greater empathy, sympathy, and a desire to understand the person who bullies, threatens, hates. The positive outcome is not giving into, much less returning bullying, threat, and hatred with m...