Are You Outraged? Your Outrage is Justified.

[MineralMan]

However, it's too late for that. Beginning right now, you can safely prepare for a constant stream of outrage to fill your emotional shopping cart.

Yes, I know that everyone here voted for Kamala Harris. That's good. Sadly, it wasn't enough. I must have posted a dozen times about the need for each of us to individually convince other voters who might not vote at all to go to the polls and vote for Harris.

Each of those posts sank quickly off the front page of General Discussion. I wasn't surprised because GOTV is not a popular subject on DU. However, the fact remains that many voters who might have voted for Kamala simply did not show up and vote at all. They weren't excited about the election. They were either bored or somehow believed that the election didn't matter. Maybe they couldn't get excited about voting for a woman. A black woman, for that matter. So, they didn't. The effect is obvious.

And we didn't convince them to put that ennui aside and vote for Harris anyhow. I talked three or four people I know into voting, despite their lack of excitement. So, I tripled or quadrupled my own vote. Had everyone done that, across the board, we would not be listening to Trump celebrate or whine about the flags being at half mast for Jimmy Carter.

Am I angry? No. I'm not even surprised. We keep doing this again and again. People stayed home and Hillary Clinton lost, too. Then, it was Harris. Earlier, it has been other unexciting Democrats who lost to the likes of Nixon, Reagan and the Bush crowd. We just keep doing that.

Now, I'm pushing 80 years old, and may not ever get to vote for another President. I may, but I also may not. It makes me sad, not angry, that Donald J. Trump will sit again in the White House. How can that even be? Well, it can be. It is. As voters, we did it, whether we voted for him or not.

Maybe we'll figure this all out at some point, but I won't be here to cheer, I'm afraid.

It's all very disappointing, my friends.