The Cost of Our Complacency

What I hate the most isn’t that Trump is our president.

It’s that the mindset of America is so toxic that people want him there.

That even people within systems of oppression have been so deeply brainwashed that they’ll proudly vote for someone who would take their rights away in a heartbeat.

That patriarchy is so normalized (how could it not be, when our country was founded on it?) that people can’t see past their own privilege, past their own lived experience.

That we’ve become so desensitized to hate and violence that even people who would never treat others the way they see people being treated still turn their heads.

I’m not one of those people.

I see this country for what it is and I genuinely believe it’s been morally and ethically corrupt from the very beginning. I’m tired of people claiming they’re not racist, not sexist, not homophobic, not transphobic and then being perfectly fine with what’s happening right now. I also want to take the moment to point out that members of a community can internalize and perpetuate these things, so being apart of a community, having friends, family members spouses within a community does not exempt you from any of the above.

Being anti anything requires ongoing learning and undoing… not just tolertation or acceptance.

And that’s just scratching the surface.

That doesn’t even begin to cover how I feel about what’s happening around the world.

I care about humanity deeply.

And I want better, not just for some, but for everyone.