I knew the USA had a sense of humour when it elected George W Bush. Now I think it has lost its mind with the election of Donald Trump.

I am disturbed that the USA seems to have elected a new president that is a misogynist, racist, xenophobe, demagogue, narcissist, bully and buffoon with an erratic temperament, questionable skills of management, etc. If I was in the USA and had a vote yesterday I would have held my nose and voted for Hillary Clinton even although she was far from the best candidate that the Democrats could have put up. It is important she is a woman, but also that she has extensive experience (when Donald Trump has none) even if she has made many questionable decisions and many I consider wrong in her time. At least you would likely know where you stand with her and you know that a decision process has actually taken place. If Margaret Thatcher had been standing with her history I would have voted for her against Donald Trump - yes that's right I would have even although I consider her to be the worst thing that happened to the UK since WW2. I think the world has gotten very much darker with Donald Trump's election. After all this idiot now has his finger on the biggest stockpile of nuclear weapons in Europe and this is situated beside Scotland's largest city i,e. Glasgow. The UK may say they are their own but they can never be used without the President of the USA.

Some of the people who voted for Trump pretend to be Christians and pretend that Clinton is literally the Antichrist. Here is your list, Trump voters: "Donald Trump is the President-elect of the United States, and he won on a platform of hate, bigotry, xenophobia, homophobia, sexism, transphobia, Islamophobia, climate change denial and anti-science rhetoric." Now tell me, Trump supporter, which of those you hadn't realised, and which of them you love. If you dare. Here's Garrison Keillor (author and radio personality, read in the Washington post today), a key sentence only. "Alas for the Trump voters, the disasters he will bring on this country will fall more heavily on them than anyone else. The uneducated white males who elected him are the vulnerable ones, and they will not like what happens next." We all knew that from the start.... apart from them.

Here is a quote from a blog post which I read today...

Hillary supporters believe in a diverse America; one where religion or skin colour or sexual orientation or place of birth aren’t liabilities or deficiencies or moral defects. Her campaign was one of inclusion and connection and interdependency. It was about building bridges and breaking ceilings. It was about going high. 

Trump supporters believe in a very selective America; one that is largely white and straight and Christian, and the voting verified this. Donald Trump has never made any assertions otherwise. He ran a campaign of fear and exclusion and isolation—and that’s the vision of the world those who voted for him have endorsed.

They have aligned with the wall-builder and the professed p*ssy-grabber, and they have co-signed his body of work, regardless of the reasons they give for their vote:Every horrible thing Donald Trump ever said about women or Muslims or people of color has now been validated.

Every profanity-laced press conference and every call to bully protestors and every ignorant diatribe has been endorsed.

Every piece of anti-LGBTQ legislation Mike Pence has championed has been signed-off on.Half of our country has declared these things acceptable, noble,American. This is the disconnect and the source of our grief today. It isn’t a political defeat that we’re lamenting, it’s a defeat for Humanity.

We’re not angry that our candidate lost. We’re angry because our candidate’s losing means this country will be less safe, less kind, and less available to a huge segment of its population, and that’s just the truth.

Those who have always felt vulnerable are now left more so. Those whose voices have been silenced will be further quieted. Those who always felt marginalized will be pushed further to the periphery. Those who feared they were seen as inferior now have confirmation in actual percentages.

Those things have essentially been campaign promises of Donald Trump, and so many of our fellow citizens have said this is what they want too.  

This has never been about politics.This is not about one candidate over the other.It’s not about one’s ideas over another’s.It is not blue vs. red.It’s not her emails vs. his bad language.It’s not her dishonesty vs. his indecency.It’s about overt racism and hostility toward minorities.It’s about religion being weaponized.It’s about crassness and vulgarity and disregard for women.It’s about a barricaded, militarized, bully nation.It’s about an unapologetic, open-faced ugliness.

And it is not only that these things have been ratified by our nation that grieve us; all this hatred, fear, racism, bigotry, and intolerance—it’s knowing that these things have been amen-ed by our neighbors, our families, our friends, those we work with and worship alongside. That is the most horrific thing of all. We now know how close this is.

It feels like living in enemy territory being here now, and there’s no way around that. We wake up today in a home we no longer recognize. We are grieving the loss of a place we used to love but no longer do. This may be America today but it is not the America we believe in or recognize or want.

This is not about a difference of political opinion, as that’s far too small to mourn over. It’s about a fundamental difference in how we view the worth of all people—not just those who look or talk or think or vote the way we do.Grief always laments what might have been, the future we were robbed of, the tomorrow that we won’t get to see, and that is what we walk through today. As a nation we had an opportunity to affirm the beauty of our diversity this day, to choose ideas over sound bytes, to let everyone know they had a place at the table, to be the beacon of goodness and decency we imagine that we are—and we said no.

For the full post please see  http://johnpavlovitz.com/2016/11/09/heres-why-we-grieve-today/

And for those who don't believe this please see... http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/10/07/trump-will-roll-back-obamas-lgbt-rights-protections-mike-pence-confirms/

For those in California you may also be interested in this website and campaign for a free and sovereign nation... http://www.yescalifornia.org

I am now even more scared of the future, than I was when the Brexit vote happened and Scotland voted no to independence (the one and only country in the world to ever do that). It is a triumph of low information voters who seem to vote on emotion rather than logic, experience and policies. If I was an American I would be looking for a way to emigrate as quickly as possible and I don't think I would be alone. We now have a world leader who is closer to being a cartoon character, with about as much sense and depth, than at any time since the 1930s. Very worrying. I do hope he turns out to be better than his rhetoric would suggest until now. Here's hoping. What else have we got?