Another election gone by and we’re as divided as I’ve seen in my lifetime.
I don’t have the energy for cutting people out of my life who I care about because they supported a hateful and disgusting person for President. Perhaps that’s a luxury I have as a white male who will probably be just fine through the next four years but I just don’t see the point in exhausting myself with hostility and hate when it can change nothing.
To hope for us to come together I think is too great a lift because of how far apart we are in our ideologies. But maybe we start with just being respectful and compassionate: not of each other’s positions but of each other personally.
It’s difficult to understand how friends can have outright disdain for things that I hold dear and that are important to me. (Liberal tears, fuck your feelings, etc.) but I will keep trying, because behind our ideologies, we are all human (sometimes for the better, sometimes not).
