You are so multi-faceted and informative.

Thanks! You’re right. My hypersensitivity is also probably the result of the same thing. I feel SO alone right now that feeling rejected by the people who I think of as “my” people is extra terrifying. If I manage to somehow get myself ostracized by progressives, I will have no one.

I have no advice, but I’m despairing just the same as you. My super conservative, super Christian parents supported him (not just a reluctant vote). He goes against every single thing they have supposedly valued their entire lives, and I don’t know how to deal with this. I gave them a chance to explain themselves -…

I know, my Bernie friends harping on him right now are increasingly starting to piss me off. Bernie is politically my favorite because we’re both pinko uber leftists, but for FFS Hillary was the better challenger & more qualified candidate.

Ok. I have never had family that voted for Trump or someone like him (I’m Canadian). But, I have cut off large swathes of family because they were toxic. It’s hard, and you want to give in because you feel bad simply ghosting them. But you know what? Whenever I used to have coffee/drinks/dinner with these people, I…

That is a ridiculous dog who looks like she escaped from Fraggle Rock and I love her she’s adorable.

Fuck all the people who say, “ideological differences” as if voting for a candidate who ran on hate makes them free from criticism.

My mom has for the last couple of years instituted a pretty good rule: ANYONE talking politics at Thanksgiving has to eat their dinner alone in the garden shed. Doesn’t matter what side you are on, doesn’t matter if you claim you’re not trying to start something, out to the shed you go. No the dog will not be allowed…

Nov. 8th was my birthday, my father called to gloat as the election results came in. My sister and I were molested as children. She called me balling saying, “I don’t know how they can look us in the eyes.”

It’s not great, but I think knowing to pace yourself and manage expectations will be valuable mental health tools. We had a lot of people pouring a lot of energy into bargaining and denial when they would have benefited more from building a psychological pillow fort and waiting for things to settle down before…

My brother wears a Trump hat and has two young biracial children. It’s gut wrenching.

I’m contemplating this with one of my cousin’s wives. She’s Indian, and not light skinned Indian either! And she posted she could sleep better now that Trump was elected. And it’s taking every fiber of my being to not ask her, “Are you aware you’re not white? Are you aware stupid racists mistake Indian and Pakistani…

That’s probably what I’m going to do. I try not to engage when she’s spinning out.

My little Lucy

I’ve unfriended or unfollowed a lot of people.

All I said was that Trump voters were either racist or didn’t have a problem with racism, which is the same thing. I do not regret it.

I got my dog’s nails trimmed today. That was my big thing.

I picked up Order of the Phoenix at 2am on election night. I wasn’t sure why I picked it at first but I think it was a subconscious draw to the underground resistance against evil in the book...wonder why!

Stop fucking the anti-choice and rape apologists. We need to go Lysistrata on their asses and make it clear that if they don’t respect our bodily autonomy, they don’t get our bodies.

How about people stop breeding Republicans?