Don't remind me. I went to bed early when the writing was on the wall, slept uneasily and woke up at 5 am. Saw the results and spent the day feeling like I'd been punched in the gut. I couldn't talk to anybody.
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Ugh...we stayed up practically all night and I went to bed and tossed and turned with such a sense of foreboding gloom...and that was before we had lost both houses of Congress too. 😢
OMG! same here. I had to turn the TV off, tell my boyfriend not to say a single word to me. I woke up the next morning saw it was over texted my friend in Nevada were all going to die.
Learning that half of your fellow citizens are scum or so apathetic that they don't care if scum rules them is a hard thing to process. Worse than a cheating partner, even.
Have you tried to dissect why Harris did not get the votes? Some signs was no endorsement from the unions. I have no doubt that there were many anti-Harris voters, especially by Biden supporters.
The data doesn't reflect that. Instead, there were some 5-7 million voters who voted in 2020 who didn't show up in 2024. Maybe that's the only time they're ever gonna vote, and it took being locked in their homes without a job and seeing refrigerated trucks used as morgues to get them off their ass.
Harris lost the worker base, which has been the foundation of the Democrat Party. Polls had shown that economy & border security were top concerns among voters. Harris did not convey very well on how she would fix those issues while Trump did. Also, progressive policies are not popular w/many voters
If voters had truly realized that fascism was in the cards and actually understood what fascism really was, it would have made a vast difference. That was the message missed. Timothy Snyder and Jim Stewartson and others tried in vain to get the word out.
Eh, we've got 262 million citizens of voting age. Maybe 10% can't vote because they're incarcerated or haven't regained voting rights or are deemed incompetent due to disability, dementia, etc. That leaves 236 million eligible to vote. Only 168 million of them have even bothered to register to vote.
And of those registered, only 154/155 million voted. Just fewer than 75 million voted for Kamala Harris; about 2.5 million voted for third party candidates. That means that well over half of those who COULD have stopped this chose not to. Either by voting against their interests or sitting it out.
This was literally me. Went to bed early, awakened at 5 AM, crushed and deflated and had to work as I worked on Kamala's campaign. None of us were okay
Reality started setting in for me at around 10pm; I went from "It's still early, these results are totally normal!" to "oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh noooooooooooooooo" real fast.
I worked 16 hours as a poll worker, came home to early results, started drinking tequila. Deleted my social media apps around 4am after posting a series of "fuck all the media & idiots" and "I'm done pretending IGAF how this shitshow turns out ."
I called out for work that night. I knew what was happening and I wouldn't be able to concentrate the next day w/o getting depressed or distracted.My job relies on being alert and safety conscious. I still feel numb and in a funk but pushing myself to take it a day at a time
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Also, me too.
It's way more than HALF.
just haul them all off to Mar-a-Lago and let Trump show them how much he cares…
That doesn't change the result, but when you look around it is a quarter of your countrymen, not half, that you should blame.
Just an attempt at perspective.
I felt like we were in an alternate universe.
I am not better.