To everyone out there saying that the election is over so everyone should stop whining, it is not over.
Trump may have won, and Clinton may have lost, but that does not mean I am going to stop fighting. Trump is not my president, and never will be even while he is in office the next four years. He may be president of the country I currently live in, but he does not represent me or anything I believe in. Unlike Trump, I believe in rights for all people including women, LGBTQIA+, blacks, Native Americans, Latinos, immigrants, Muslims, and everyone else he has personally targeted and made afraid in their own country.
I will not condone the behaviors of a leader that acts in this way, and I will not stand by and watch it happen.
As a woman, I cannot stand by and watch as my rights are taken away. I am not going to watch Pence as he advocates for conversion therapy for gay people, or unequal wages in the workplace. I will protect my reproductive rights and my rights to Planned Parenthood, birth control, abortions, and my right to choose what is best for MY body. I absolutely will not stand for building a wall that separates us from Mexico, ruining relations with countries we have worked so hard to make peace with, or cut funding for women's rights or schools or health care.
While it is true that Trump is not yet in office, the things that he has said during the course of this election are enough to scare me and make me want to take action starting now.
I absolutely will not sit back and watch this country retrogress 100 years after everything we have fought to work toward for all of these minority groups and women. No I am not being dramatic or whining, and no this is not like any other election. I am not simply sad that my candidate didn't win, although it is disappointing that we were so close to having a female president. It is much, much, bigger than that. To everyone that feels this way, just know that this is not the end, and things are not over as we know it. Things are just beginning, and we won't stop fighting for what is right and what has already been fought for.
This is not the end.
