HUH?

[zzambrosius_02]

By all the gods above and below, what a bunch of redneck morons.

(If that shoe doesn't actually fit you personally, just don't even try to put it on. You ALL know who I'm really talking about.)

So...

Say goodbye to your Social Security. I hope for your sakes you got a bunch of money saved up for rent and food and medicine in your retirements, cuz Medicare and Medicaid are on the block as well.

Say goodbye to your VA benefits, too. The last time the Rs had full control they cut the sh*t outta that while illegally invading two countries.

But hey, at least your personal firearms are safe for another few years.

Sh*t. See ya, I guess.

Comments

[forrestwoodward.livejournal.com]

You forgot that you now have carte blanche to do and say any hateful thing you want including intimidating, harassing, or assaulting (physically, emotionally, and/or sexually) non-white people, non-cisgendered persons, non-heterosexual persons, non-penis having persons, non-christian person (though some jews may be okay as long as they aren't too uppity about it), persons born in another country (especially if English isn't there first language), any person with less money than you, any person that didn't vote exactly the same way that you did, people that hold opinions different than your own, or people that you heard a rumor once that might have talked to a 'mooslim' (sic) in a civil fashion at any point in their lives.

ephemera

[zzambrose.livejournal.com]

I did NOT forget that, I just didn't put in the post.

looking for rays of hope

[12c-yseult.livejournal.com]

I haven't yet found words for what happened Tuesday, so we'll just skip that part.

What was good about the flight back from Kansas City, MO, the next day was that I read most of Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance. It's a memoir by a guy in his 30s who managed to get out of Appalachia, get an education, and live a happy, productive life. Sounds like it could be sappy, right? But it was really good. His life was shitty - absent father, dysfunctional mother - but his grandparents were there for him, and then a few other people helped along the way. In his twenties he came to realize what a small world he'd grown up in, with no other models for how to think or behave but his dysfunctional Scots-Irish hillbilly family. He had no concept of any other way to live. The 'hillbilly" culture he's describing is not just what people think of as Appalachia (the mountain South) - it has spread to include most of the South and the Rust Belt, much of the Red State belt in the middle of the country.

That's the world that produces the kind of people who voted for the president-elect.

The fact that he was able to make it out of that world is heartening. He writes at the end of the book about what he's learned about what was happening to him -- the effects of childhood trauma on a person's physical and mental being, the importance of social networks and role models and support from extended family, and how you can't legislate what really helps people. Good book.