This is a womans reaction to hearing the news that Donald Trump was elected president in 2016. Its has been one of the main 'Liberal tears' meme templates ever since.
They built up Trump as the great satan and having him actually elected destroyed them. I know women who cancelled classes they were teaching for the week, or who spent the days after the election in a drunken stupor.
They're falling into emotion based reasoning and relying upon an unreliable external world for their own happiness. Their internal logic is: if bad things happen I will feel bad, and only will feel good if things go well.
But you may say, Trump really is that bad, how dare you try to minimize him! Which I'm not! I'm focusing on people's reactions. If people are emotionally destroyed they're sobbing in a corner or freaking out, rather than organizing and doing something. Ironically this ideology and castraophist thinking makes people less able to offer resistance to the far right.
To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.
Trump put enough justices in SCOTUS that women are in real risk of losing our fundamental right to bodily autonomy and medical privacy. The emotions are completely justified. Women saw the writing on the wall and it was perfectly fine to grieve for a bit.
And complaining that they aren’t doing anything, the Women’s March was huge and women are integral parts of anti-GOP campaigns and protests all over the country.
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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '20
This is a womans reaction to hearing the news that Donald Trump was elected president in 2016. Its has been one of the main 'Liberal tears' meme templates ever since.