So the news have sunk in, and we're apparently not going to get a Groundhog Day style miracle, and the world will have to keep on turning
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Getting electoral college people to change their votes is a pie-in-the-sky dream. Yes, it's technically possible but it's not going to happen. Looking at the states in the link where it could occur: Pennsylvania is the only one where I could see it happening. The rest of the states (save swing-state Iowa) are conservative. Period. Also: the House is Republican; doing this would change nothing.
I honestly laughed to see the poster hoping to flip Kentucky. I live in the state. There would be violence if that happened. The only counties that voted majority Clinton were Lexington and Louisville. 57% of Louisville voters voted for Clinton. It's not an overwhelming majority by any stretch of the imagination.
And, frankly, this person did not think of the wider social consequences of this: it pretty much, from the vast majority of the US population's standpoint, would be stealing the election. (Most Americans don't understand how the electoral college works, either.) It would legitimize Trump's statements about election rigging, voter fraud, and the establishment not wanting him to win. I guarantee there would be violence.
Lastly, I think it would be undemocratic: the people voted and while the electoral college is a weird system, the result shouldn't be changed. We have ways of mitigating the disaster-- voting in the midterm elections, contacting our representatives, etc.-- that I hope people use rather than just talking.
As for the rest of your post: I tend to agree with it. I see where people are coming from in not wanting to be around Trump supporters at this time; I couldn't stand to be around my parents yesterday (and I'm likely to try to avoid them today as well). But Tumblr has an unfortunate tendency to non-nuanced thinking: there are reasons that don't have to do with bigotry as to why people voted for him. There's also a tendency toward "change everything immediately and don't compromise" that is a complete hinderance to any sort of activism. I also think that Tumblr itself is an echo chamber, which is why so many were shocked that millennials had a slight majority in voting for Trump: some--many-- areas of fandom lean liberal, but that doesn't mean the entire generation does.
I think it's in large part because they're hurt and they're afraid and they don't want people around them who voted Trump into office because they feel they can no longer trust Trump voters to not hurt them. But bridges will have to be (re)built: we can't save this country if people refuse to talk to and understand each other.
The emigration thing happens every election and from both sides; the vast majority will learn they're not going to be able to. Yes, it's more serious right now, but I've seen a ton of people saying they won't leave because then they wouldn't be able to work on fixing things.
I honestly laughed to see the poster hoping to flip Kentucky. I live in the state. There would be violence if that happened. The only counties that voted majority Clinton were Lexington and Louisville. 57% of Louisville voters voted for Clinton. It's not an overwhelming majority by any stretch of the imagination.
And, frankly, this person did not think of the wider social consequences of this: it pretty much, from the vast majority of the US population's standpoint, would be stealing the election. (Most Americans don't understand how the electoral college works, either.) It would legitimize Trump's statements about election rigging, voter fraud, and the establishment not wanting him to win. I guarantee there would be violence.
Lastly, I think it would be undemocratic: the people voted and while the electoral college is a weird system, the result shouldn't be changed. We have ways of mitigating the disaster-- voting in the midterm elections, contacting our representatives, etc.-- that I hope people use rather than just talking.
As for the rest of your post: I tend to agree with it. I see where people are coming from in not wanting to be around Trump supporters at this time; I couldn't stand to be around my parents yesterday (and I'm likely to try to avoid them today as well). But Tumblr has an unfortunate tendency to non-nuanced thinking: there are reasons that don't have to do with bigotry as to why people voted for him. There's also a tendency toward "change everything immediately and don't compromise" that is a complete hinderance to any sort of activism. I also think that Tumblr itself is an echo chamber, which is why so many were shocked that millennials had a slight majority in voting for Trump: some--many-- areas of fandom lean liberal, but that doesn't mean the entire generation does.
I think it's in large part because they're hurt and they're afraid and they don't want people around them who voted Trump into office because they feel they can no longer trust Trump voters to not hurt them. But bridges will have to be (re)built: we can't save this country if people refuse to talk to and understand each other.
The emigration thing happens every election and from both sides; the vast majority will learn they're not going to be able to. Yes, it's more serious right now, but I've seen a ton of people saying they won't leave because then they wouldn't be able to work on fixing things.
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