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[meganbmoore]

 I've been trying and failing to distract myself from following election with steadily increasing horror for the last 7 hours.  I've managed to read a chapter and a half of the new October Daye novel and watched 1 episode of The Legend of Chusen and poked a bit at Farmville, but mostly I've been refreshing tumblr and election trackers at a rate that uses up my tablet's battery faster than it can recharge.  I went from feeling upbeat about the election and even able to make jokes about it this morning to having the most stressful and upsetting day I can remember in my adult life.  As it currently stands, there's still a chance of Clinton miraculously pulling ahead, but it seems very unlikely. I honestly don't think Donald Trump will last a whole 4 years before being removed one way or another, but he could cause a lot of damage in a short time, on top of the enormous amount of damage he's already done just by exposing how much hate and bigotry people were somewhat keeping to themselves up to recently. Even if Clinton somehow wins, that's still there and it will take us years to recover from it.

One of the worst parts is the 3rd party/protest voters, who knew perfectly well a third party never stood a chance in this election but thought they were taking up some sort of moral higher ground.  These are largely people who feel "safe" enough that a Trump presidency won't affect them negatively.  I hope they develop enough self-awareness to figuratively drown in buyer's remorse.

I'm going to try going to sleep now, but I doubt it'll work.

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[thnidu]

That's what I was trying to tell prospective protest voters.

[meganbmoore]

Yeah, it's what I was telling them too. I hope they choke on their "conscience", because that's what gave him the final push he needed.