How Not To Let The Haters Win

Kindness, Compassion, Empathy, Hope, Positivity, and other tools.

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Many people are feeling uncertain, concerned, and afraid right now. After the US election, a party that has shown very little morality, ethics, or basic human decency is poised to control all three branches of the government. They have laid out an ugly, hateful, disturbing set of plans and roadmaps that will potentially marginalize, disempower, and take away fundamental rights in the guise of false morality and other bullshit.

Many people are feeling lost, scared, and hopeless because of this. The suffering they fear is truly distressing, so their feelings are utterly valid.

The haters appear to have won. That, however, is not true.

The haters did not win. No, what happened is that people fell for the con -or- still believe the utterly disproven notion that women can’t run a government -or- that their vote doesn’t count so they didn’t bother -or- that both sides are equally awful — or some combination therein. The real winner was a combination of apathy, complicity, misinformation, and the like.

The haters are loud, well-funded, and believe in a false moral superiority. They might think they’ve won, but the truth is that they have not. Why? Because we are still here, and we’re not…