4 hours ago
(Yesterday, 10:19 AM)Byrd Wrote: Well, folks, your Token Liberal here is indeed very depressed over the results. You'd have felt as I do if the election went the way I hoped for.
Voters globally are growing discontent with the awful election choices before them. (New Zealand couldn't do any better than Prime Minster Christopher Luxon. He doesn't know the price of groceries).
I have many friends and family members who are at risk here (gay, trans, Black, Latinx, the entire Furry community, SF fans, Renfaire folk, SCAdians, etc) and I worry for all of them.
That is understandable in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's general direction. However, African Americans and Latinx voters didn't flock to Harris and congressional Democrats. American voters across many demographics perceived Trump as better for controlling living costs. Of course, that doesn't square with Trump's anti-free trade stance.
I am very concerned that we may lose Social Security and Obamacare; with hubby's Parkinson's and Diabetes (and a whole list of other problems) and daughter and grandchildren with medical problems, things could get grim. One friend (widow) with multiple disabilities will likely lose her home and at least one other is at risk of suicide (another woman (age 77) whose medical expenses run into the thousands of dollars each month.)
My thoughts go out to those people, yet from what I understand, social security was going broke before Trump's political rise.
I'll be looking into how to protect our finances... that's going to be critical.
Like Hillary Clinton, Harris was a terrible candidate. It is glaring that Harris failed to wipe out Trump on the issue of consumers paying for tariffs.
