"It'll be FINE! Just give him a chance!"

"Well, golly. Folks sure do seem to have a bee in their bonnet about the new president. He hasn't even taken office yet -- what could they possibly be protesting?"

You could just write them off as sore losers... but you'd be badly mistaken. Maybe it's people reacting in horror that enough people were OK with voting for a racist, sexist, xenophobic bigot that a racist, sexist, xenophobic bigot got elected president. News flash: Voting for a racist who openly advocates racist policies makes you complicit in racism, no matter how noble you believe your intentions to be. And if being called out for enabling racism makes you angry or uncomfortable, maybe take a moment and consider the effect your actions have had on those whose lives have become exponentially more difficult thanks to what you've enabled.



Also, asking people to sit down, shut up, and play nicely with those who would deny their very humanity is not a message that is going to resonate.

You’re looking for me to suck it up and sing kumbaya with people who by their own action or inaction threw women, LGBTQs, immigrants, Muslims, Native Americans, the disabled, blacks and Latinxs, the poor, the environment, 20 million people who will lose health insurance etc. under the fucking bus because “They want us fighting among ourselves,” “They want us divided,” and “That’s how they always win.” No. That is an abuser’s tactic, and that shit does not fly with me. Not any more.

I am not the one who did the fucking “dividing” here; YOU are refusing to hold accountable those who are actually responsible. They, and you, need to OWN THAT SHIT.

But maybe it's more than that. Maybe, just maybe, people are worried the new regime will actually follow through on its promises. It's a legitimate worry given who is reportedly in the running for the new cabinet.

• America leading on climate change? Not anymore.
• The Kansas secretary of state, a noted vote suppressor, is taking the lead on immigration and pledging "there's no question the wall is going to get built."
• Medicare? Going away, and Paul Ryan wants the Affordable Care Act to take the blame.
• Fans of the Department of the Interior can look forward to oil executive Forrest Lucas or even Sarah Palin being in charge of America's wildlife.
• Ben Carson, who has called the Big Bang a fairy tale and evolution "Satanic", is being considered to run the Department of Education. This is the same Ben Carson who thought pyramids were built for grain storage, remember.
• As for #DrainTheSwamp? Yeah, not so much.

Still no word as to who will be in charge of undoing decades of automation and globalization in order to bring low-paying manufacturing jobs back to America. It's early days, though.

If acting under the assumption that the president-elect and his party are going to do what they've been saying for months they're going to do makes me "unfair", then OK, I'm unfair. Weirdly enough, I would prefer to act up now to prevent people's rights from being taken away as opposed to "giving him a chance" to do so and having to play catch-up. Ounce of prevention, pound of cure, etc.

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.

— Son of Baldwin (@SonofBaldwin) August 18, 2015