Well, I will say that hyperbole got your attention!

I am kidding but not kidding. SH says I have been distracted and distant. He is right.

The outcome of this election has forced me inward to examine what I believe, what I will tolerate, what I want to do.

If Hillary had won, I would not be suffering this existential crisis about the world and my reality and my purpose in life. I would not by worrying about our global climate entering “run-away” climate change. I would not worry about whether we would remain part of the Paris Agreement  I would not worry my right and my daughter’s right to make our own reproductive decisions. I would not worry about whether we would decide to bomb Iran (more on that in a later post). I would not worry about the Affordable Care Act and the way it provides health care for 20 million previously uninsured people, ensures people cannot be denied coverage for pre-existing conditions, allows us to keep our children on our health insurance until they are 26, and lifts the life-time cap for medical care. I would not worry (as much) about the voting rights of anyone who is not white. I would not worry (as much) about how corporations steamroll over the little people. I would not worry about my first amendment right of free speech. I would not worry about my privacy — but now what will happen when the haters who keep a list of names get access to all our private data?

I have been mulling all this over in the depths of my mind, trying to absorb the enormity of how our nation might change with this new reality.

I am trying to discover how I can have a small part in protesting what is against my moral and ethical core and protecting what I believe to be true and good.

All of us are struggling and we are afraid.

When George W. Bush became the president because of the abuse of power of the Supreme Court, I was in despair. I disagreed with the platform of the Republican Party and all they represented. I thought we were in the hands of careless, thoughtless, unreflective leaders who did not care about our hurts and needs. By their many actions, they proved my worries valid.

Now that this carrot demon has been chosen by a lesser half of the country, we are in the thrall of true forces of rapacious corporate and individual greed and arrogance and self-righteousness.

They say the left is hypocritical. I vehemently disagree. The left, the true left, the true liberal progressives support the dignity of the individual, believe in the right of everyone to work for a true living wage, believe everyone has the right to clean food, water, air and a warm place to live. We believe in the power of the government to improve our lives because we have willingly entered into a covenant with each other to promote the general welfare. We believe that the individual has certain inalienable rights: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.