I feel like Charlie Brown in his quest to kick the football teed by Lucy. Forever she will snatch the ball away as I run to kick it.
The elections that I felt should be an emphatic repudiation of Trump instead are a mild rebuke. It should have been no surprise. Our nation's heinous and racist past is a better predictor of the future than is our idealistically worded Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Behavior always dominates words, so it should have been a foregone conclusion that country's path would continue to disappoint.
Being as I am in the privileged 1%, I personally 'benefit' from the result. Why complain, then? It is because I believe in the myth of the country about liberty and justice for all. I need to detach and allow that just as I vote against my self interest, so do the majority of the population. Insofar as this trend will not affect me personally, why should I care?
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