Move to Canada? No, I think maybe I'll stay right here in Florida and work for change.
It cracks me up when people pretend to be shocked and outraged at the backlash from these "marching in the streets" Millennials. The GOP never accepted Obama as their president and obstructed him long and hard for 8 years. The young have eyes to see and ears to hear.
I do not approve of obstructionism or disrespect. Like it or not, our obsolete Electoral College system has given us someone we do not want. Shit happens. I support working within the system to promote peaceful and rational progressive change. I encourage others to do the same. However, I am not going to lie. I look forward to watching activism flower in the hearts and minds of young people in these United States.
I like that as an attitude. But I confess that after Brexit - and now after the US election - I do get a tiny kick out of watching the Brexit supporters and eventually the trump voters busily whitewashing the dismal fallout of their choice.
ReplyDeleteHard not to. Oh, who am I trying to kid? I'm not even trying not to.
DeleteJust like Brexit, if all those millennials had voted, or even only the women, we'd have a different outcome Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteSo true. It kind of gives me hope for the future. I like these kids. They have some growing up to do, but I think they're going to do good things.
DeleteTo stay here and work for what we believe and try to make the most effective change in the light of this disaster is the most patriotic thing I can think of.
ReplyDeleteIt would make me proud to be an American if there was a march on Washington tantamount to Martin Luther King's Freedom March in 1963. Send a visual message, not just a verbal one.
Actually, I think there is going to be a Million Women's March on Washington in January for the Inauguration - anyone else hear anything about that?
DeleteI'd go - and brig my daughters and if their mother let me - bring my granddaughters. I am still hoping, though, that something will happen, to stop this man from becoming President. Lord knows, there are plenty of lawsuits and fraud cases to be handled.
DeleteWouldn't that be great to take the grandkids to a march on Washington? I took my daughter with me to the March for Women's Equality and Women's Lives in DC in 1989.
DeleteThat could be the silver lining to this whole nightmare.
ReplyDeleteCould be. I would love that.
DeleteI think it's time we get rid of the electoral college. It's antiquated and unnecessary, not to mention it sometimes (like this time) clashes with the popular vote.
ReplyDeleteOne person, one vote. It doesn't get much simpler than that. Or am I being too simplistic? If someone is in favor of the electoral college, I'd appreciate hearing why.
DeleteThe electoral college is specified in the Constitution and would take a Constitutional amendment to dispense with. I doubt that could happen in anyone's life time. The opposing side (the loosers) would always oppose it.
DeleteIf all the self righteous people who three away their vote on third party candidates had voted R or D; if all the apathetic people who stayed home had voted, we would have a Democratic president come January, and I think Comey's last minute emails would not have mattered.
Thanks Joanne!
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