I just want to thank Hillary Clinton for standing up for women, children, and families; I just want to thank her for fighting so hard to be what this country needs right now.
I just want to acknowledge Hillary for being the first woman to accept a presidential nomination, the first woman to vote for herself for president, and the first woman to win electoral votes in the U.S.
I just want to thank her because I woke up this morning thinking that I would have a female president and that’s not something I’ve ever had the chance to think before. Thank you for giving me that hope, for making me believe that it could happen, and for showing me that it CAN happen, and that someday, hopefully very, very soon, this country will be ready for it.
Fuck anyone who says “why do you care about the election - you don’t even live in America.” Even if we forget for a moment that the U.S is arguably one of the most influential governments in the world and what they do effects us all, a basic sense of human empathy is what makes those living outside of America so terrified. We’re scared for every woman who is going to be denied access to an abortion and those who will inevitably die in an attempt to access an illegal one. We’re scared for every person who will seek asylum from war and poverty but will be denied compassion. We’re scared for LGBT+ people who don’t feel safe in their own communities. We’re scared for people of colour and the institutionalised oppression that they experience every day. We’re scared for victims of sexual assault knowing that their President invalidates and trivialises their experiences. We’re scared for our ailing environment. I could go on forever. We’re scared and sad and angry and disgusted that someone so vile, so comically ridiculous will probably be elected as the leader of the free world. Sometimes the bad guy wins and, in this case, it’s fucking scary because the bad guy has the power to make or break the lives of hundreds of millions of people. You don’t need to live in America to understand that, you just have to have some sense of human compassion.
I don’t live in the US and literally had an anxiety attack over this. To all my American friends, please know that we’re all thinking of you and that you’re always welcome to crash on my sofa bed and cuddle my kitties, if you want to move to Italy. I love you all. We need a lot of love right about now.
what do we do tho? like, honestly? what happens if he’s elected? what do we honest to god do?
Coming from the UK after our own catastrophe: you make his life hell. You make his government’s life hell. Anything and everything shitty that they want to do, you protest, you campaign, you petition, you lobby. You tie the whole thing up in so much red tape that Mr I’ve-Never-Had-Anyone-Say-No-To-Me starts loathing his job.
You create private safe zones, you look out for one another, you let your now validated racist, homophobic, transphobic neighbours know that their bigotry will not be tolerated through any means you feel it’s safe to do so. You join forces. Despite everything, you thrive out of spite, out of survival, out of a need to protect your own.
All of these communities have faced untold amounts of hell before and we’re all still here. It’s in our history to survive – in our genetic makeup. There will be losses and there will be casualties but in four years you’ll still be here and you’ll vote him out and the time to grieve will be then. For now, fight. In any way you can, even if all you can do is get through each day at a time. Fight him every step of the way.
And remember DON’T be violent, unless it’s in self defense. Don’t be stupid. Use that right to free speech and peaceful assembly, use it well. Be strong and be smart and look out for one another, and most of all don’t let things start to roll backwards. We’ve worked too hard to get this far.
it’s official. no one can ever complain about millenials ever again. we may be killing the cereal industry but at least we’re not killing the country uwu
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
