Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Dan Tynan: How do you feel now that Donald Trump has won the election?

Wow. Called out by name in the question. How odd.

I feel nauseated. I feel despair, both personally and for my country. I feel an existential dread and worry for the future of our democracy, now that it will be soon be ruled by people who don’t know what ‘existential’ means and think that people who do, don’t matter. I feel like leaving and not coming back, only I have kids here who will have to suffer the brunt of whatever happens next, and that’s unfair to them.

I feel anger at all kinds of people for allowing the Donald Trump Show to happen because the ratings were so good (Jeff Zucker of CNN, I’m looking at you) and the Trump surrogates who just lied on camera, repeatedly, and Julian Assange and Jim Comey and Vladimir Putin. I’m angry at Hillary’s campaign for not doing its job and holding the thin blue line.

I’m mad at the propaganda machine that created this mess and the Trumpanistas who got sucked in by it. I’m mad at the Republicans who are great at attacking and finding “scandal” where there isn’t any but couldn’t run a boy scout jamboree without fucking it up. I’m mad at all the online haters who declared Obama “the worst president ever” and Hillary “a crook” but failed to produce a single fact supporting those assertions that stands up to scrutiny. All kinds of feelings spraying out in all directions.

But mostly I feel a lack of hope. That we have had our shining moment in the sun with Barack and Michelle, and we will never have anything like that again in my lifetime. It’s going to be an incredibly ugly 4 years, assuming we have another election in 2020, or ever. The Stoopids are in control, and Biff has his stubby little finger on the nuclear button.

Aside from all that I feel wonderful.

Why do you ask?



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