This is so good. Thanks for sharing it with us as well.

I reject your premise that the only way to stop the bleeding is to let all of the body’s blood drain out of it.

I’m recommending and responding to your post because I think the “burn it down” angle needs to be discussed in a public forum. Apologies for the wall of text.

I keep wanting to send shit like this to well-intentioned friends who are trying to convince me, and themselves by extension, that things probably won’t be as bad as we’re thinking since the Republicans will reel Trump in. The only thing keeping me from doing it is that I know that they are suffering and while I’m…

No wait guys, it’s OK. He was just kidding when he said that he wanted to erode all of our freedom, it was just some top lel alpha game over these beta manginas and their manly bitches. Once he gets into office, American Exceptionalism™ will kick in and the country will save itself because the country must save itself.

Yeah, I actually saw that earlier. It sorta nails it, in a way.

I’m still entirely too emotionally disheveled to really, precisely name the nature of my pain, but I know that it hurts and I can’t bear to thing of the multitude of intersectional ways that an ascendent GOP (let alone Trump himself!) could harm the liberalism that people far wiser and greater than myself have built…

This is a sweet story.

Don’t be discouraged by the curtness of some of the people who have responded here. Othered America is hurting most acutely because, as Othered persons, we will feel the wrath of politicians who hate our identity as a matter of principle and because we will suffer in relative silence because our concerns are external…

I will not be cynical about this. Though it tests what little remains of my serenity to avoid being cynical about this, I will not be cynical about this.

It says something really heartbreaking about the dire state of American ethics - not just American politics, but the ethical core of the American body itself - that we consider the prospect that Trump isn’t a racist but instead merely pandered to racists and cloistered himself within their racist ideology in pursuit…

Wait, let me get this straight.