They’re terrified that the public resurgence of the KKK will inevitably lead to the reinstatement of slavery.

I actually really hate this distinction and think it is so totally wrong. There isn’t a difference between “racists” and “people who use their political power to elect someone who has openly and explicitly proposed racist policies that are more extreme than the oponent’s”

My father has been a high school special education teacher for more than 20 years, and one thing that he makes sure to do is to show his students the PBS documentary “Eyes on the Prize.” For many of the white students, this is the first time they see footage from the civil rights movement and the first time they get…

“Everyone who voted for Trump is not racist, but everyone who voted for Trump had to decide that racism was not a dealbreaker.”

It means that Trump was not the choice of the majority of American voters. It means that for the second time in 16 years, a Republican president has been chosen against the democratic will of the people. It means that Donald Trump cannot honestly claim a mandate to rule according to his whims. It means that calls for…

I feel like a pathetic, weak coward as I write this, but yesterday as a teacher I did... nothing. I live in a deeply red area, and I can’t afford to lose my job, so I told my students that I couldn’t comment on the election, and I tried to proceed as normal. Before first period, a few other teachers and I huddled…

Clinton couldn’t shake the stench of being an elitist

That’s 8 minutes longer than I could last

1) Do not even dream of confirming Trump or Pence’s Supreme Court Justice.

It’s like these folks came out of the Rust Belt to vote against their own self-interests in order to burn some other disadvantaged folks that they thought were getting a better shake.

PRoblem is that what we saw yesterday was the working class starting a political movement. Marx just didn’t figure that the working class uprising would be fueld by racism and xenophobia.

Spoiler alert: it’s not going to get better for them. It’s been downhill for them since the Reagan administration, but they keep voting for the folks that ship their jobs overseas, bankrupt their pensions, pull their social safety nets, etc. Asking for sympathy while shooting yourself in the foot really only…

My dumbass cousin voted for Gary Johnson in OHIO and then posted on Instagram this morning hysterical about how the country could elect Trump.

Those people will lie or “misremember” who they voted for in the future, when they talk about the election with friends, children, relatives, and neighbors. They will pretend they were not the morons who risked everything for their egos and didn’t barricade Trump.

Fuck people who stayed home, wrote in Bernie, or left the President choice blank (My Father.) even more.

I am not proud to be an American right now. Apparently most of the people here are hateful garbage, pig ignorant, or both.

White women voted in favor of Trump 53 to 43 according to exit polls. White men aren’t alone in causing this mess. White women were right along with them as usual.

This election has brought on so much PTSD. After being the victim of workplace bullying recently, watching a man bully his way into the highest office in the world makes me sick to my stomach. Trying to process this all has been really hard. I just want to hug my pillow and cry myself to sleep. Maybe the funny…

If we ever had any doubt that hate, fear-mongering and violence are quintessential American values, we’ve been conclusively relieved of them.

I was going to write a long thing but I drank my sorrows away. I’m so ashamed. Me and my family are fucked. This wasn’t just about red vs blue, real shit was on the line. I’ve never felt so hopeless.