Let's Not forget (blowing off steam).

I am writing about this election, and I realized that I am angry. I am so angry, and I have not written about it because I have not protested, I have organized. I believe in love, but I also believe in accountability and American's deserve to see someone held accountable. We deserve an explanation.

What Can I do?  I asked myself and I have seen so many people ask "what can they do?". There were so many people looking forward to an election that was going to move America forward.  When America took a step 50 years back, we all didn't know what to do.  Throughout the election there was so much turmoil over both candidates.  Truthfully, Bernie Sanders turned America around. 

 His perspective and conviction opened the doors to the American future.  When he spoke of creating a functional economy and the "stress on the American working class" was like an angel singing from the heavens.  Was he perfect? Definitely not.  He was so removed from the people of color that he had to refer to charts and demographic information to be able to speak of the experience of Black Lives Matter and racial oppression, as did both the other major candidates.  He was not the most perfect candidate, but he was more informed.  He made both the Clinton Campaign and the Republican campaigns have to speak on very significant truths of the flaws within the American system.  Bernie Sanders proved himself to be my representative.

When the Sanders campaign was not able to follow through with the election America truly lost hope.  In a true objective opinion, I have to speak of what the true issue was.  The Sanders Campaign had received so much difficulty from the Democratic National Committee that America was not feeling the Clinton campaign.  Not that I will ever identify in complete alignment with an America that only allows Americans to have two sides of a true story, but the Democratic party had betrayed America so hardheartedly that this presidency may not ever allow a true recovery.

The closed primary elections, not allowing people to vote if they didn't register as Democrats? What America is that? Voting is an American Right.  It is a constitutional right upheld, and primaries that don't allow for people to vote are IN VIOLATION of that American right. I have been betrayed by the Democratic party and they opened the door for a Trump Presidency. I hope they are patting themselves on the back.  Hillary Clinton has shown that she does understand politics, she has been around the White House for over twenty years. I am drawn to believe that if Hillary Clinton truly believed that a woman could have won the white house, and having a woman represent our country was what she felt was best, she would have mentored a woman representing the younger generation, they all would have mentored a younger representative.  Instead, not only was this election full of people that didn't relate to the younger voters, but the candidates did not relate to the current issues.  Donald Trump's awareness of twitter made him understand that he needs to keep his thoughts in 40 characters or less, and unfortunately that worked in his favor.  It opened a can of worms that I personally did not see coming.

We now have to figure out how to move forward as we watch what was once a hopeful democracy become a place where hate groups feel as though they can speak of inhumane beliefs and act on a disgusting lack of humanity.  They allow fear to drive their limited primal understanding of a complex world.  Instead of celebrating variety (the spice of life), we have people that will justify creating sickening acts like Dylann Roof, or John RK Howard.  Those that feel like it's safe to publicly diminish someone because he or she is different.  People that don't deserve a platform, have been given one.

We must continue what Bernie Sanders started and draw on our states to be representative of what's right.  We must work to make sure that our discomfort is felt not just by us, but by the representatives that are not respecting our voices, so that they will need to understand that our discomfort is also their discomfort.  Unhappy people, means unhappy business.  We must draw on the example that Bernie Sanders set by being willing to challenge the status quo.  To invite other parties to participate in representing our beliefs through local and state forums.  We must work to be the change.  For anyone that feels differently, this is my opinion based on how I saw this election play out.  There has not been much emphasis on the wrong doings of the Democrats since the primaries, and that is alarming.  We can not forget that many voters were discouraged this election, we can not forget that the candidates were not perfect this election, and we can not forget that America deserves better in the years following.