From Dad's perspective...
There is sadness, fear, disappointment, and a sense that our country is still full of racism, homophobia, xenophobia, sexism. My Dad, a Trump voter (come on - you cannot be surprised at that - he has only voted Dem in Presidential elections once that I know of), was at first proud his "guy" won. Then, after realizing his beloved grandson was so very worried, concerned, upset and angry, started to think. He thought and thought, about the worries his grandson and I voiced about our President - Elect, about the lack of progress this vote pointed to, about the fear that we have regarding the legitimization of difference and prejudice, about who will be blamed and treated as less then in the coming years. My Dad is an old guy. He's come a long way over the years for an old white guy, who worked at 1 job for over 35 years. Dad put up with a lot from his wife and daughters, heck even the pets were female at some points in our family life. There is really o...