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definitely a real feeling
it is what America has been looking like for far too long
“Giving up” when you lost the last election by a measly 1.5% seems like exactly the wrong thing to do…
1.5% in an election by a well-spoken (relatively) young and intelligent experienced government official, running against a psychotic retiree-age fascist with apparent dementia, a room-temperature IQ, with a history of sex scandals and rape (as confirmed by the courts, no less) while running as the candidate for Christianity and moral purity, running in stark opposition to both the free market and the welfare state, openly despising women, ethnic, religious, and gender minorities, advocating for genocide, bootlicking our national enemies, and corruption... all with a prior four-year term with all of that on display, so we all could be certain it wasn't 'just rhetoric'.
There are only a few realistic conclusions one can potentially draw from that.
Most of America simply does not give a shit about what happens to minorities.
Most of America wants bad fucking things to happen to minorities.
America was so freaked out at the prospect of a mixed-race woman becoming president they decided what happens to minorities was less important than stopping that.
Any combination of the above.
There's not a lot of room for "Well, I get that they wanted a 2.5% lower tax rate on the rich..." This was an election against outright fascism. And most voters said "Yeah, let's go with that."
Not disagreeing with anything you’re bring up, I just feel that 1.5% is small enough that the next election could easily swing the other way, unless the organizers give up en masse. Then we’re surely fucked.
I'm only saying that being demoralized by this whole shitshow is an entirely reasonable reaction, especially from minority groups.