How DT opened my eyes.

It is 24 hours after the 2016 election and I am still feeling the depression that starting sinking in last night at this time as I was watching the results come in. From that first sentence right there, you know whose corner I was in.

This is not a post to tell you why I think my candidate deserved to get elected or why I supported her. Even though I consider myself a democrat, I am reasonable and most certainly would vote for a republication candidate if that candidate held certain standards that I think every president should have.

I don't think anyone can deny that our PE  (president elect) was mean, nasty, crude, vulgar, rude, disrespectful, ugly, mean......do I need to keep going?

He made derogatory, disrespectful remarks about Muslims, gays, Jews, women, people with disabilities. Wait, STOP. You made fun of and mocked a reporter with a disability?

My son has a disability. He is cognitively impaired. This means he was born with a disability in his brain. Something that cannot be fixed. And, it is nobody's fault. Genetics. We are working so hard with him so that he can be successful and live on his own when he is an adult. My biggest fear, my biggest sadness is that he does not fit in with the "real world". My even bigger fear is that, he will be made fun of, disrespected, and bullied because of who he is (and remember, he can't help who he is).

I will be completely honest and tell you that some of the things that our president elect said about other groups, did not phase me. For example, when he talked about building a wall, I don't know any Mexican immigrants, so it doesn't pertain to me. It won't affect ME if he builds a wall. The only Muslims I know are the ones I see on TV. And even though I am a woman, the remarks he made about other women (grabbing their pussy,etc.) did not really bother me as a woman because let's face it, DT would never want to grab my pussy, I'm just not pretty enough or skinny enough for his taste. I thought those comments made him look like a total dirt bag, that's true. At the time, these things did not bother me so much because they did not pertain to me. I did not have a personal connection.

When he mocked and made fun of that reporter with a disability, hold on folks. THAT infuriated me. That could have easily been MY son he was mocking. At that moment, my dislike for him became personal, I had a connection. There is no way in hell I am going to vote for someone that is going to make fun of my son. I need a president that is going to look at my son's differences and embrace them.

This has made me think about those other groups that he bashed. I may not have a personal connection with some of these groups but I do have experience being in one of those groups. I am part of a minority (well, my son is, but well,you know). I also have personal connections to the LGBT group. Some people I love deeply are part of that group and I have witnessed first hand, the struggles they have gone through. It comes down to this, when we have a personal connection to a group we fight for that group and if we don't have a connection, we don't care. That has got to change.  We need to be aware of the struggles others face, we need to support them. We need to remember our own struggles and how that feels and remember that we are all just human beings. Human beings that have feelings and ideas and that are doing their best trying to survive.

I don't think any president or president elect should publicly degrade and mock a group because they are different from the typical,white American. Nobody is typical anymore folks.

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