I live in California, so I'm partially insulated from the very worst--not that California doesn't also have some horrible policies (and people), but there's slightly more lip service toward the ideas that maybe we shouldn't treat the majority of our population as lesser human beings and oh maybe we should think about not wrecking the planet for the grandkids. So we can at least hope that the state government will partly compensate for any changes for the worse at the federal level, though of course it won't be enough. And the building where I work still got spray-painted with TRUMP the day after (small, at least), and we still had several synagogues bombed a few years back, and... well.
I'll probably be okay, since I have a strong support network of financially comfortable family members. And my public transit system recently upped their security, so maybe I won't even get groped. But what about my Latina coworkers? The homeless people downtown who already face huge hurdles getting mental health care and places to sleep safely? My PoC neighbors in our majority-white complex where people already call security to report that they saw black people and find that suspicious? All the public libraries who currently get federal Library Services & Technology Act funding and the people who depend on those libraries for so much?
I can't even think about the Supreme Court and how many decades appointments there will affect us.
I really hope you're right that his support will fall apart soon. I can't imagine that he will magically fix the economy (like this is actually a hard task, you know?), so barring some unrelated fluke that he can take credit for, he'll lose one of his major selling points.
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on 2016-11-12 05:47 pm (UTC)I live in California, so I'm partially insulated from the very worst--not that California doesn't also have some horrible policies (and people), but there's slightly more lip service toward the ideas that maybe we shouldn't treat the majority of our population as lesser human beings and oh maybe we should think about not wrecking the planet for the grandkids. So we can at least hope that the state government will partly compensate for any changes for the worse at the federal level, though of course it won't be enough. And the building where I work still got spray-painted with TRUMP the day after (small, at least), and we still had several synagogues bombed a few years back, and... well.
I'll probably be okay, since I have a strong support network of financially comfortable family members. And my public transit system recently upped their security, so maybe I won't even get groped. But what about my Latina coworkers? The homeless people downtown who already face huge hurdles getting mental health care and places to sleep safely? My PoC neighbors in our majority-white complex where people already call security to report that they saw black people and find that suspicious? All the public libraries who currently get federal Library Services & Technology Act funding and the people who depend on those libraries for so much?
I can't even think about the Supreme Court and how many decades appointments there will affect us.
I really hope you're right that his support will fall apart soon. I can't imagine that he will magically fix the economy (like this is actually a hard task, you know?), so barring some unrelated fluke that he can take credit for, he'll lose one of his major selling points.