What Everyone is Talking About

Last night America, the country that I live in, elected a caricature of a human being. I find this quite saddening. Hopefully there will be no terrible or irreparable damage done to the global image of this nation. Fortunately there are systems set in place by the founding fathers of this nation that will hopefully prevent the worst things from getting through.

There are many who seem to believe that this is a step backwards, and that by electing Mr. Trump we have voted for oppression of minorities, women, and LGBTQ+. I do not think that this is entirely the case. It is not a step in the right direction, that much is given. However, it does not mean that they will become oppressed any more than they are now.

The best thing to do now is to look to the future and seek ways to prevent this type of election from ever happening again. We need to find honest, real people to run in 2020, not caricatures. I hope we can all agree that this election was arduous on us all, this cannot happen again. We must remember that a house divided against itself cannot stand. We have clearly seen, and have been seeing for far more than just this year, that we are a deeply divided nation, and social media is showing we are divided against ourselves.

I once stumbled upon a book called Unwind it was the first in a series of books. The set up of the book was that the debate on abortion escalated into a war called The Heartland War. It was basically Civil War round two. The government ended the war by saying that life began at conception and was protected until about the age of 15. At that time, if the parents chose, a person could be "retroactively aborted", but still had to remain "alive" in some sense. This process became known as "unwinding", and the various parts of the "unwound" would be grafted onto people with serious injuries. There were many people who were put up for unwinding, for several reasons. There were even some who were unwound without real cause, but as a "tithe" for status or something. At the end of the book there were several people who had been saved from unwinding and were starting to organize to try and fight for the losers of the Heartland War, which the book points out was everyone.

That is how this election has gone, and possibly would have gone either way. We, as a nation, have lost. Now we need to look to the future, and try to come together to set this right, for all of us.