Responsibility and #NotMyPresident
Jan. 21st, 2017 03:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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a-bit-wonky:
Ok.
So.
Here we are.
It wasn’t a nightmare. We aren’t going to wake up. Donald Trump really is the President of the United States.
Really.
I didn’t vote for him.
I’m not responsible for his election.
But for the next four years, whether I like it or not – and let’s be clear, I don’t – he is my president.
His election was not my responsibility, but what happens over the next four years? That is.
It won’t matter to the young woman who loses her insurance that I didn’t vote for him.
It won’t matter to the family who is deported how often I watch the news and tut disapprovingly.
It won’t matter to the students with disabilities when publicly funded charter and private schools refuse to teach them what I posted on social media.
I’m not being hyperbolic when I say that the election of Donald Trump will be the shame of these generations. In twenty years, when seventh graders are learning about the Trump administration in civic class, it won’t matter that I didn’t like it, it won’t matter that I tutted, it won’t matter what I said on the internet because as long as that’s all I do, all of those things will still happen.
And that’s my responsibility.
So I’m not saying that you should like it, I’m not saying you shouldn’t tut, I’m obviously not saying that you shouldn’t yell about it on the internet
I’m saying that’s not enough.
The things that happened after the election of Donald Trump, the things that happen over the next four years, these are things that our nation will be ashamed of for a long time.
Make what you do in the next four years something you can be proud of.
a-bit-wonky:
Ok.
So.
Here we are.
It wasn’t a nightmare. We aren’t going to wake up. Donald Trump really is the President of the United States.
Really.
I didn’t vote for him.
I’m not responsible for his election.
But for the next four years, whether I like it or not – and let’s be clear, I don’t – he is my president.
His election was not my responsibility, but what happens over the next four years? That is.
It won’t matter to the young woman who loses her insurance that I didn’t vote for him.
It won’t matter to the family who is deported how often I watch the news and tut disapprovingly.
It won’t matter to the students with disabilities when publicly funded charter and private schools refuse to teach them what I posted on social media.
I’m not being hyperbolic when I say that the election of Donald Trump will be the shame of these generations. In twenty years, when seventh graders are learning about the Trump administration in civic class, it won’t matter that I didn’t like it, it won’t matter that I tutted, it won’t matter what I said on the internet because as long as that’s all I do, all of those things will still happen.
And that’s my responsibility.
So I’m not saying that you should like it, I’m not saying you shouldn’t tut, I’m obviously not saying that you shouldn’t yell about it on the internet
I’m saying that’s not enough.
The things that happened after the election of Donald Trump, the things that happen over the next four years, these are things that our nation will be ashamed of for a long time.
Make what you do in the next four years something you can be proud of.
