a woman whose anger needs to be paid attention to

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118. This is just one person expressing how she feels...

...but I understand because, in part, I share her disappointment and anger.

While polls say a majority of white women supported Trump, that doesn't mean (and I think it's unlikely) those white women are in this forum. And while, like her, I'm also done, I never had that much confidence this country would elect a woman, much less a black one. What galls me is the continued dismissal in so many quarters this simply couldn't be about misogyny, racism, and bigotry. There are people who continue to lament how this result simply doesn't make sense considering who her opponent was and how one of the most effective presidents in my lifetime had the incredible and consequential deeds of his administration totally ignored. At first, it was about his age, although Trump is just a couple years younger and no more lucid or coherent than Biden. He's certainly not as ethical. But once Biden dropped out, "inflation" and "the economy" became the proxies, and that has worked for the talking heads and punditry mostly because it's more palatable then the truth it seems like only black people don't mind publicly speaking.

I'm just as tired of hearing how Democrats don't know how to talk to the working class when Joe Biden walked a picket time with them. I'm tired of hearing about "elites", which is another euphemism for having critical thinking skills. And I'm tired of hearing that shit from Democrats. If being a Democrat meant being the same kind of person who could be swayed by someone's sexuality or the color of their skin, that I would have to embrace hatred and fear to win elections, I would have never joined this party.

It was a mistake to not answer the ads about transgender prisoners. Harris was going to have a tough climb, but those ads killed her chances because they hit hard and hit home with a lot of people, especially men, but also a lot of women, particularly single mothers who constantly question themselves as to how good a parent can they be when they can't truly be the man AND woman of the house. Not only did those ads flip votes, they got people to stay home.

So I understand what this woman is saying. I don't agree with her blanket indictment, but I know how she feels. I know how Eddie Glaude feels. And I say if you continue to misdiagnose the patient, which is this party, you won't cure him, and he will eventually die from the wrong prescription.

So like her, I'm out. Not because of frustration or anger at other Americans; I'm out because the damage that's going to be done will not be fixed in my lifetime, and I can't give anymore time trying to enlighten or protect those who just don't get it. We know the dangers to come, and people didn't buy what we were selling. They wanted "fuck around and find out" and now they have it. I wish them luck. I wish us all luck.