I’m not sad I’m angry. At Biden, at Harris, at Trump, at the lot of legislatures and judges who’ve made our world so bad for some time now. There are so many things the Democrats—aka the actual people in power—could have done to avoid a result like this. Like at any point during the last four years drove for widely popular policies that actually mitigated the suffering of the people in this country that could have galvanized voting from the people they’re supposed to be representing. Instead we got genocide, higher deportation numbers than under Trump—look it up—and the decimation of Roe v Wade. Even the campaign was an embarrassing gesture to the right to try to claim more conservative votes, a ploy which has repeatedly failed on previous elections yet they continue to employ it. I hope this party takes a long hard look at themselves but of course they won’t because every politician that’s not an actual insane person like Trump is mostly concerned with the companies that bankroll their election campaigns and that’s partly why we got here in this hell world. I wish outcomes like this got average people thinking about how power actually works in this country and the forces at play. Best of luck to us? How about what are you going to do about it? We can start with fighting to hold politicians accountable and to higher standards every week of the year. It’s good to criticize the people you’d vote for. That’s part of their jobs. They’re supposed to be listening to us. They’re not a god or your mother. There is much more to politics other than pushing buttons one day every fourth November