Not good for my blood pressure

I spent some time this evening listening to the election returns... at least what there are of them at the moment. And now I'm back upstairs and am going to knit and breath deeply. I am deeply concerned for the what the election will bring.

And I am baffled. I am utterly and completely baffled that people will support those who lie, who spread conspiracy theories, who are unkind, who have such a narrow view of what is right and unacceptable that they write off huge swaths of the population, treating them with contempt and hatred. 

You do realize that if you support these fear mongers, that it is my family that you are saying you are afraid of. It is my family that will bear the brunt of punitive and hateful policies. Because it is the immigrant, the person of color, the member of the LGBTQ+ community who will suffer. You may object and say that of course you don't hate my family, but forgive me if I don't quite believe you when you vote for people who put in place policies and laws which are harmful to just those populations of people. And I wonder what exactly are you afraid of. I don't fine us particularly terrifying. 

This is not stopping me from clenching my jaw, so I'll just leave that there and knit the sock I'm working on. 

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