Dear Americans, how do you go back to normal after such an election campaign?
Dear Americans, how do you go back to normal after such an election campaign?
The atmosphere is so heated, and the statements are getting more and more extreme. Let's just assume Harris wins the election. After a campaign like this, how could you ever have a normal relationship with your pro-Trump neighbor/father-in-law/Uncle/Barber or what ever again?
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We... don't? Have you not been watching American news for the last... 9 years? I don't speak with my family because me being trans is not fully accepted by them. I don't really want to associate with anyone who is okay with increasing trans suicides via politics. I moved from North Carolina to Oregon to be in a queer friendly state, and I don't regret it one bit. And I have an appointment to get my passport tomorrow... just in case. I don't know if this country can be fixed. People talk about getting along with our neighbors or meeting in the middle, but I don't know how to get along with people who wish I didn't exist.
"Getting along with your neighbors" has moved the right more right... and the left... more right. That center isn't what it used to be.
That and the "we don't talk about politics" bs... In my head I always think "Why? Because you're embarrassed of your political beliefs?"
And I have an appointment to get my passport tomorrow... just in case.
I wish I could say come to Germany, but things are looking grim over here too :(
I do not know of any not-grim countries right now