And the new President of the United States of America is Donald Trump!!!! That's it! That is who the country elected as the new leader of this great nation.
However, I have never felt sick to my stomach due to the outcome of an election before. This was the first time I have ever voted in my life, the first time! You see, only 1 year ago I became a US citizen, even though I have lived here for 20 years. I was very excited to be able to exert my citizen duty and cast a vote. I thought about how important, and sometimes forgotten, that women were not allowed to vote until 1920. So, not only I, a woman, a new citizen of this great country, would be voting for the first time, but I would also be voting for a woman.
So I was a bit emotional when I went to cast my vote, and afterwards I felt the need to go home and talk to my girls about Susan B. Anthony. I then explained to my girls how important it was for us to vote not just because Susan Anthony fought so hard to give us that voice, but because as a citizen, you should take part in this important event.
Nobody is flawless, the two major candidates were not perfect, because in reality, nobody is. No matter the outcome of the election, some would be happy and some would not. That is what it is, you can't please everyone. And I get this, I understand that, and I am telling myself and my kids that we will be OK. We need to give Trump a chance to show us all, that he can do good. I have to keep telling myself that, I have to, otherwise there is no hope.
But I'm upset. I'm very upset, and I still can't believe that this is real, because it just seems like a very bad joke. What is upsetting to me is not even that Hillary Clinton did not win, but the problem is that Trump was the one who won. Trump, an individual who is the worst role model for our nation, and an individual who does things that we should never do. Trump's behavior during the election, from his vulgar tones to his mockery and cruelty towards others, set a very perverse example of how to attain what you want. He showed the world, that you can win by being arrogant, rude, under prepared and crude. He showed people that money and power are more important than human decency. He showed us that it is acceptable to grope and diminish women. But most importantly, he showed us all that a large percentage of our citizens applaud these types of behavior.
This election told us more about ourselves as individuals than about Trump. This entire process shed light in the fact that there is a lot more darkness in our country then we wish there was. Trump winning showed us just how much hatred, misogyny and discrimination there really are in the USA. Who knows, but maybe he did us all a favor and got people to expose their true colors.
