Stacey Seaside

At the moment half the US population are celebrating joyously, the other half are in mourning.

And another 10 million don’t care or could not be bothered.

To those 10 million I send a giagantic “F … U.”

I am happy with having political opposites (even if at the moment I don’t wish there were so many of them).

You don’t get to enjoy all of the benefits of being a US citizen without  making

the effort to vote. I insist you be politically engaged.

Who is doing well and who is suffering and why in our collective America this is important knowledge factors in being a responsible citizen. If you are an empathetic, compassionate person you care not only about yourself but your community. If your community does well, you do well too.

My political stance — protecting:

a woman’s right to choose what happens to her body,

Who you love, who you legally bind yourself to, who composes your family,

What faith to practice or not practice,

Freely speaking out about what you like or don’t like about how you are governed …

These are all individual freedoms that each human should have the right to.

So why does half the country think I am a bad guy because I want to protect everybody’s right to choose how they live?

How does ensuring that everyone has the same rights hurt you, as an individual, as a family?

And is the right to choice less important than the high price of a product in the long game?

How many civil liberties will an entire nation lose because they can only focus on the immediate problem?

How do we communicate effectively, to get the message we want to go out to the right people, in the right way?

Yes, I am disappointed that so many sold out for the promise of an “immediate fix,” not the long game, to protect everybody once and for all.

I have been very vocal about what I think of trump. Maybe you feel the same way but embrace his promised policies?

Those policies are not going to rid you of the people you don’t like because they practice a certain faith, have a skin color different than you or try to send women back to 1870 when they had NO rights?

They may wipe out your social security pension which you paid into, they may abolish the public school you send your children to, 

and if you benefit from any federal social services you may lose these.

I sincerely hope trump makes good on every promise you believe will improve your lives.

Honestly I felt the gut punch with Hillary’s loss but my heart was ripped out and shredded with the Kamala’s loss. In 2016 hopeless people were giving trump a try because he was so anti-establishment. Now trump supporters know there are no guardrails and he will do anything and everything with their carte blanche approval. I can’t sensitize humans who don’t want to have empathy and compassion for their fellow man. These people feel so betrayed that their “me first” mentality blinds them to everyone else. We, as in my fellow Dems, can demonstrate, we can put information out there but until trump betrays them they won’t understand. They have given him the benefit of the doubt because he had to navigate the country with a once in a lifetime pandemic where NO leaders got it right. So until he betrays them, they will keep drinking his toxic Kool-aid and say Hallelujhah to boot.

My wealthy pals who chose trump want to protect their economic privilege; the impoverished believe trump will help them.

I hope he and his administration follow through on their promises.

In the meantime,

for personal peace I am going to hit the political pause button.

It may not be time to throw up our hands but I am not currently prepared to follow Kamala’s advice and “roll up our sleeves.” I have been pushing the fight for everyone’s human rights in the American political landscape since 2015.

I have put body, brain and soul into it for a decade. I need to take a break because I see that the people I am fighting for — all US citizens —  may not want justice for all.

I am not abandoning championing for everyone’s right to choose, just taking a break for a while.

In the meantime, keep reading, stay informed, stay engaged.

And let’s hope our fellow citizens will not get lost in the translation of our good intentions as well as the success of the Biden administration’s sound economic policy and legislation on infrastructure.

I am heading back to Mykonos after a week in Athens. Will plant myself in the sand seaside at Agios Stefano’s and enjoy the balm of the Aegean Sea.

I am blessed to have grown up in an America of opportunity and equally blessed to grow old in a place of beauty next to the water.

Until next week …