Election Thoughts

I haven't had time to write a longer piece on my thoughts about the election. I've only written little responses to other posts. Here are some extended thoughts that I haven't heard already.

One of the biggest thing that bothers me after this election is the harassment that some on the right are giving to supposed minorities. I have co-workers who, because they don't look completely White, are being yelled at to, "Go back to where you came from!"

These co-workers are well-dressed and well-groomed. They do not look like gang members or "job-stealing" migrant farm workers. They dress as affluent Americans.

The harassers are not "rednecks". They aren't missing teeth, they do not have a Confederate flag on their shirt, nor do they have a gun rack in their truck.

This isn't Arkansas or Mississippi. This is California.

In other words, these are perfectly educated (as far as I know) people, living in the most prosperous state in the union, complaining about perfectly productive people. I'm trying to figure out exactly what their problem is.

It would appear that these people are jealous that someone who doesn't look completely White was able to afford a nice shirt. Or nice slacks.

It would appear that these people are jealous that someone who doesn't look completely White got a white-collar job that they don't have. Even though they didn't apply for the job, much less go to college.

It would appear that these people, upon seeing someone less-than-White, and perceiving them as more successful, become insanely jealous. Perhaps they concluded that the person could not have gotten this success without cheating. In any case, the person concludes that the other person stole their opportunity somehow.

In other words, it would appear that it is precisely because they are so nicely dressed that the harassers are getting angry.

I guess now we have neo-Nazis coming out the woodwork, thinking they have some kind of majority. They're having their rallies and threatening minorities whenever it suits them.

My message to people-who-voted-for-Trump (notice I didn't say, "supporters") would be to stand up and yell at the top of your lungs that you don't support this racial hatred. Say that your vote for Trump had nothing to do with racism, and that you abhor the behavior of these bigots.

Why should you do it, instead of me? First, I am saying it. Second, they won't listen to me. You voted for Trump. They think you're on their side. The more Trump-voters who say they detest racism, the more you eat away at this imaginary majority.

Hopefully, when they look behind them and don't see anyone there, they might get the message.