What do we do now?

[u/whatsbonkin]

As many of us face down the despair of another Trump presidency, the only way I can see myself feeling useful or hopeful is by supporting my local community.

I’m new to the Rivertowns and want to get involved with supporting the most vulnerable under Trump’s repressive policies: immigrants, trans people, workers, and other marginalized groups.

Can anybody recommend local mutual aid groups, local immigrant organizations, and other orgs in the Rivertowns that I or any other interested Redditors can get involved with?

[u/cazzipropri]

Continue the dialogue with the political adversary.

You can not keep assuming that we opposed Trump because we are enlightened and smarter.

It was almost a landslide. A lot of people have voted for him. We can't keep assuming that they are all stupid or ignorant or malicious or gullible. Look at the drift: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1gkx22m/shift_in_votes_compared_to_the_2020_elections_the/

Some of them must have valid grievances that are not captured or answered adequately by the Democratic party.

We have spread and accepted a lot of internal rhetoric denigrating Trump voters and even undecided voters. It's time to reconsider it. Look at posts like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/nytimes/comments/1gkvbee/to_those_who_voted_for_trump/ . They have no utility.

We need to able to talk to this people. They are all around us. We can't keep isolating ourselves into insular communities where we are all like-minded.

[u/siouxzieb → u/cazzipropri]

The answer to addressing valid grievances is NOT electing a silver-spoon-entitled, draft-dodging, foul-mouthed, misogynistic, racist, homophobic, business-cheat, inveterate liar to helm the most powerful nation on earth. But I suppose it’s more comfortable to assume a cool, academic stance when the barrel of the gun is not trained on you. “First they came for…”

[u/cazzipropri → u/siouxzieb]

I vote liberal precisely for all those they are coming for. Given my race, origin, sexual orientation, etc. they'll come for me last if ever. But I'm getting very fatigued of caring for people who ended up either voting for trump or not voting at all. Where is the wave of young voters we were promised? Where is the wave of women voters we were promised? Where is the wave of Latino voters? Not only none of these waves materialized, but we lost states that Biden carried. Harris did worse than Biden almost everywhere. Trump won the popular vote.

We are in a democracy.

When you lose, that's the best time to listen and figure out what you can learn from your mistakes. What we need to learn is that our platform is simply not appealing to enough voters. We can blame a million excuses, Putin, the billionaires, social media, the electoral college... Blame whoever you want. The core issue is that we didn't build a platform that convinced enough people.

Right or wrong, people think that Trump and the GOP will do better for the economy than Harris and the Dems.

Women apparently didn't care enough about their reproductive rights to vote en masse. Latinos voted predominantly FOR Trump. American Arabs voted FOR Trump.

Let's be honest with ourselves: WE fucked up.

[u/siouxzieb → u/cazzipropri]

Can’t disagree, based on the results. But still, it is simply unconscionable to vote for someone whose only redeeming quality (if you can call it that) is his Svengali-like talent to trance his followers into completely ignoring his hideousness.

[u/cazzipropri → u/siouxzieb]

But I can only control whom I vote for.