I've had this written for about a week but now it's finally ready...
My feelings are very intense right now, so much that it's kind of hard to process enough to put into words to say out loud, actively into the universe. If you know me at all, like literally at least enough to see the glitter puked on my face, you'd know my obvious stance on the current president elect. I do not support him, and I can't understand how anyone with a conscience can support him. Now I'm not here to bash conservatives, or even bash the president elect himself; I'm here to discuss how I feel about it. I'm here to discuss how (I believe to my understanding) other ppl feel about it. Because over the last few weeks I've been suppressing my feelings more than usual, but I'm also starting to come to terms with the importance of feelings and the drastic need for emotion. Feelings are never bad and emotions are never scary. My problem is I either feel everything too deeply, or not at all. It is either my Herculean strength, or my Achilles heel depending on the situation. In our countries current situation I'm feeling deeply to the point I can't talk about it. I can't form adequate sentences in my mind or even thoughts for that matter. I'm feeling gloomy and cloudy, but I know the sun is starting to peak out. I'm desperately trying to numb my anger and fear and redirect that energy into something positive. I want to march, I want to shout, I want what's right to be heard loud and clear. Because what's happening in our country right now is not right. It's not just. It is callous. It is ruthless. It is hatred dug back up from the deepest crevices of our nation. Both parties are at fault here, I know that. I fully understand the hypocrisy in my hate for trump while preaching love trumps hate. I know it's there but it's tough not to be. It's tough to sit back and respect peoples opinions, when their opinions disrespect someone's life. It's tough to sit back and accept that while not all of the president elects supporters are racists, bigots, sexists, ableists, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, etc. they're throwing their support at a person who is in fact a racist, bigot, sexist, ableist, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, etc. and they can't seem to understand the harm in that. His supporters can't seem to understand the fear because they have never personally felt it. "Privilege is when you think something is not a problem, because it is not a problem to you personally." The problem with this line of thinking is that we're all one. With each other, with nature, with the universe. If the Earth goes aflame we're all burning with it. So why alienate, subordinate, and hate a group of people? A word I see floating around a lot lately is "dramatic." Us "snowflake millennials" are just being sooo dramatic because we didn't get our way. First of all Tomi you are the definition of privilege so please hop off the swivel chair from your high paying tv gig you received almost right after you graduated college and stop oversimplifying real issues and real emotions. You don't understand how marginalized groups feel because you are not apart of one other than being a woman, but you're a white woman so it barely counts. But regardless, when did being dramatic become negative? Where did this negative connotation come from because it is no where in the definition... When you google the word it says "relating to drama" and "sudden, striking." It never once says it should be used as an insult. I found a great article on line about it and it said calling someone dramatic "emphasizes a negative connotation to how you think they should be feeling rather than how they are actually feeling." He goes on to say that it is telling the person a lot of misconceptions. You're telling them they're just acting or looking for attention. But this completely counteracts the message we like to shove down people's throats of being themselves. He beautifully says, "Since when is it bad to be able to feel things so greatly because your heart is bigger than the cruelty of the world?" The answer is it's not. Feelings are never bad and emotions are never scary. What is scary is the fact that there even is cruelty in the world. What is scary is the fact that the world is scary. And we don't need a leader to make it even scarier for anyone. We don't need a leader that talks about his daughter like she is a thing rather than a person. We don't need a leader who wants to put up walls to divide while we are fighting every day to break down barriers. We don't need a leader who makes fun of disabled people as if they don't matter just as much as him. We don't need him as a leader. I am scared. My friends are scared. People all over the world are scared and I can hear their tears and feel their pain because they are my tears and my pain. I love so strongly and feel so unapologetically that I cannot justify our president elects actions. Our president elects words. That rip through my core and ache me all over. Feelings are never bad and emotions are never scary but I feel bad and I am scared and it is not dramatic and it is not unwarranted. I just hope Trump supporters can understand that.
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