When we woke up this morning the sky was dark and it was cloudy☁☁☁. After our morning routines, it started to thunder and lightening, followed by rain and hail ☔☔☔. We felt depressed 😟😟😟.....as we thought about it we realized our depression had nothing to do with the weather. We were surprised and excited to see hail in Valencia. We love it when the sky lights up and we are able to see lightening....these are not weather patterns we experience at home.
Once we realized that today is Inauguration Day we understood why we were depressed. Ever since November 8th we have been in a state of denial. It has been impossible to explain to our Spanish friends how the person who shall not be named won.
We tell everyone that we voted. We explain that in California, 8,753,788 or 61.73% of the people voted for Hillary Clinton and only 4,483,810 or 31.62% for the other guy. We go on to tell our friends that Hillary Clinton received 2.9 million more votes nationwide than him 65,844,954 (48.2%) to 62,979,879 (46.1%). But explaining the Electoral College is a bit more challenging.
Even with all of these explanations they still asked HOW. When he talks, they think he says stupid things. They read about what he has done to other people in his life, they wonder HOW could anyone vote for him. We explained racism, abortion, climate change, immigration, equal rights, guns, etc. in the hope that they could comprehend WHY some people would vote for him.
I think many people in the world have respect for or looked up to or admired the United States (none of these are the right words). But he who shall not be named stoked the fires of those who feel the changes of the times of the world have left them behind or left out. These changes are not ones they agree with. And so it begins as of this writing there are 1,458 days, 7 hours, 51 minutes and 10 seconds left until we can get him out of office....that is unless, which many people believe, he will do something that will get him impeached!
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