11/9/16 RMB
Election Day November 8, 2016
Dear Rita Mae
Brown,
After I voted
the morning of November 8th, with a friend, we talked about the
remote possibility of the end result that eventually occurred.
Threats,
violence, and discrimination are far more cherished to many than peaceful
alternatives. There is a reason we have bullies in our society. He who hits
hardest, who boasts loudest, and who dominates wherever possible, will ultimately
gain followers. Like the wake of large boat, some are drawn in without a second
thought. While others make that choice willingly. They stand for what suits
their needs best, building the momentum, swaying the uncertain into compliance.
Watch what
amuses and enthralls people, the movies, the video games, and the politics of
life. Every superhero movie produced must out-explode and out-crash and out-demolish
its predecessor. Upset with our current government, there are those ready to
demolish it, rather than build on the good and improve the rest.
I woke on
November 9th with the thought of “what doesn’t kill us, makes us
stronger.” The next four years will be a time of strengthening.
Peace, respect
for human lives, for diversity, and kindness, these are qualities living within
us all, not enough to have affected this vote, but perhaps enough to pull us
through the next four years with as little damage as possible to the progress
we have made.
As remote as I
thought this outcome would be, I also see an outcome of progress towards a
healthy, peaceful nation under this regime an even further impossibility. This
time, I pray I am wrong.
Onward and
upward,
Loraine
