I've felt a lot of things the last 2 days: fear is the biggest one, but some sadness and a little anger. I recognize that those same emotions are what prompted white America to come out in droves and elect this man, and it would be stupid and selfish of me to think that my emotions are somehow more authentic, more important than those that voted for the winner.
I can't honestly say I know what the next four years will bring to this country, good or bad, it's been a bumpy road the past 16 years anyways. I will say this; I voted against Democrats in the last 4 major elections because they don't represent the values that I hold to be true in what's good for our country.
When Obama ran with the pretense that he was going to provide healthcare for all Americans, I was opposed to it. It wasn't because I didn't want healthcare, it wasn't because I didn't want healthcare for anyone else, it was because the importance of
earning something will always outweigh what can be given. Goodwill towards men is sterilized of all meaning and scope when it's pulled from the hands of the people and dolled out by a government who uses it as leverage to maintain a deathgrip on the rest of us.
But when my vote ultimately didn't count, I had to sit down and buckle up as the healthcare my employer provided, which was amazing health insurance, was taken from me because it didn't meet the government prescribed narrative of what healthcare should include, and therefore couldn't be offered to me as an employee. Something my employer was proud to provide, and something I was proud to work for, was taken away from us by the government that insisted that I take the prescribed governmental regulation of the new face of healthcare, and go on to the public exchange.
Unfortunately, I fell into the deadzone of healthcare recipients on the public exchange, I would now have to pony up nearly 2.5 times over what I was paying out of pocket before for LESS coverage. I simply couldn't afford the government's assuredly 'free healthcare' option. So I've paid a fine, year over year, because I don't qualify for the government's option, and I can't afford to pay what they want me to pay, despite their cost offset bullshit.
So for the past 8 years I've had to pray to god that I don't get any actual sickness and that I don't find myself critically injured because in the wake of Obamacare since inception, I've been walking a very fine line of 'playing it safe', because if the worst does happen, I am fucked beyond reproach.
Obama touted 'wealth redistribution', but the only wealth redistribution I've noticed was taking from those that are fighting for and working the hardest for it, and giving it those that don't even want to work.
There are things I'm going to spend less time doing as well. I'm not going to be nearly as confident and gloating, thinking I'm in some kind of great majority. I'm in a very very small majority, so close that you might not even call it that. The country is divided nearly half, and I intend to spend less time acting like my ideals are holier than someone elses. I also intend to spend less time here if any at all; it doesn't make other people happy, and it doesn't make me happy. The GIF's from Tombstone that are sure to follow can be enjoyed by others; I won't see them. I hope the people that consider themselves my enemies here understand that I never hope ill for any of them.
It's going to be an interesting walk down a new road for all of us. Take note of what you're getting to be part of, for better or worse, because it's going to be new for all of us. We've all been lied to, by the media, but pundits near and far, by the bullshit we buy into from celebrities and people who we put our own personal opinions on everything in line with.
The Left is on suicide watch, and the Right is wondering how deep this rabbit hole is going to go. No one knows what's going to happen. It's time we cut through the bullshit, the blame game, the name calling, the false-flag narrative of young activists, and hold the Left by the fucking balls and remind them that if they want any meaningful change, if what they believe is true (and 99% of it is straight up pure bullshit), then they better be willing to put themselves on the front line of solving those problems, rather than perpetuating it.