Okay, I am going to be off this website for an unknown length of time, as I suspect people are going to be *extra* awful now, but I will say a few things first:
-This is not the end of days. Even Trump winning, as horrible as that will be, will not be the end of days. For the sake of those who came before us, those alongside us, and those who live after us, we must continue to live, breathe, and fight for that which is good in the world.
-We still have power. People will tell you that we do not. They will tell you that neither party wants to fix these problems, and that worse, these problems should not be fixed. They will tell you that we deserve our fate. They are wrong.
They are wrong both in that America deserves to suffer, because there is no crime that deserves suffering, and they are wrong in that there is no power- nor, I suspect, an unwillingness to use it. It was simply not apparent until this week how deep the rot ate.
-There are a lot of people who will say that there is no place for hope or brightness or joy here in this fight. They will post quote about Grim Determination. Some of you doing this are my mutuals. I am sorry, you are wrong. Grim determination is great for hurting yourself and little else.
If you kill the hope, light, and joy in your hearts, you have killed the thing you hope to save. You have confused yourself and will end up breaking, your hardness making you brittle. Always laugh, always smile, always enjoy things, no matter how hard things get.
As my people were placed on a death march a thousand miles away from their homeland to live in eternal exile, as they were subject to the lash and the gun, as they were killed and butchered and had their very names and words stolen from them, they still laughed and loved the sunrise.
Many people think that cutting out your heart is strength, that refusing to feel is a kind of good power. It is not. It is weakness. If it is a weakness you must indulge, so be it, but it is still weakness. It is strength to see cruelty, to be hurt by it, and to still be kind.
-My last thought- these are not the actions of someone who has already won. Let me tell you what evil men in the fullness of their power do. They do nothing. They do nothing because they need to do nothing, because the world they built around them does their cruelty for them.
