tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33546514.post483583991077362398..comments2023-08-06T13:36:00.621-08:00Comments on Alaska Adventure: Nothing and Everything ChangedMarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00511409510281960927noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33546514.post-9205147217589030492016-11-11T08:59:06.816-09:002016-11-11T08:59:06.816-09:00Hi Kathy, thanks for your comment. I think part of...Hi Kathy, thanks for your comment. I think part of why many of us feel this way is that there is no acknowledgment of Trump's faults and only mentions of failures of Obama and Democrats when pieces and posts supporting Trump are written. It comes across as denial and hubris. Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00511409510281960927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33546514.post-56695322367171156012016-11-11T06:19:03.136-09:002016-11-11T06:19:03.136-09:00We don't know how many voters were motivated b...We don't know how many voters were motivated by Trump's racist rhetoric, we hope that the people who voted who don't usually vote, the ones the pollsters weren't expecting, we hope they just believed that a businessman would know how to make jobs. We hope they didn't go to the polls just to keep America white. But we know that some did, because that was a message Trump was sending out.<br /><br />What has changed for me here 3 days after the election is this new resentment growing in my throat towards perfectly wonderful friends who voted for Trump. They are posting on Facebook a wave of admonitions: don't whine, don't be polarized, and stop posting click-trap stories that aren't true about racist bullies. I especially hated a long article one of my best friends shared that says this is a revolution: "They stood there even though the media told them it was useless. They took their stand even while all the chattering classes laughed and taunted them. They were fathers who couldn’t feed their families anymore. They were mothers who couldn’t afford health care. They were workers whose jobs had been sold off to foreign countries. They were sons who didn’t see a future for themselves. They were daughters afraid of being murdered by the “unaccompanied minors” flooding into their towns. They took a deep breath and they stood." from http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264771/american-uprising-daniel-greenfield<br />While I read the article, I felt my respect and love for my friend seep away. That's what's different for me right now after this election. I believe Trump is narcissistic, that his success is due to his privilege and ruthlessness. It won't follow him in the Whitehouse. The weird thing is this. We won't get to sit back and gloat when bad things happen. We won't get to say, "See I told you so." because the people who voted him in can blame the bad things on other forces. A Republican friend of Kevin commented on Kevin's post this morning that Obama has been a joke of a president. Anything bad that has happened in the last 8 years have been his fault. So what should I do about the light that Facebook is shedding for me on the political opinions of my friends? I'm not going to get off of Facebook because it is an important way to stay in touch with my friends. I'm just going to have to exercise a lot of forgiveness. Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07711438406683961814noreply@blogger.com