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"At Clinton's victory party, Rahim remembered people were "sobbing and literally couldn’t move because they were so distraught."
"People were throwing up. People were on the floor crying," Traister recollected.
On a train from Brooklyn, BuzzFeed News editor Shani O. Hilton observed "at least three people sitting by themselves, just weeping silently."
Separated from this hysteria by nearly one year, the relevant question seems to be whether these actors, and the many others who experienced election night with similar shock, have put themselves in a better position to understand what happens outside of Brooklyn, or to better understand, at least, why their certitude was so misplaced. Unfortunately, I think the sad truth is that most have not.?"
I actually do want to apologize to you if the election affected you that much.
It is just difficult for me to fathom people getting that surprised / upset by a political election.
I guess if poking fun at something actually causes someone actual damaging emotional pain, then it is wrong.
I think what has made so many on the right revel in rubbing peoples noses in what happened last year is the smugness of those we saw on TV (liberal reporters) leading up to the election.
The first words out of Dems that night was "Impeach".
I am sure that was the next "to do" on the Democratic list. Had those "hit so hard" by Hillary's loss been a little more educated (plus had an ounce of commonsense), they would have realized that that polling was not reliable and that Hillary was the worst candidate for POTUS in the history of our country and not have found themselves sobbing/vomiting or whining endlessly over the election over a year later.
I remember elections back to 1972 when I first voted and.......................
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