You should be very scared
Yeah… hi.
Well, congratulations. Week one is behind us and so far the only wars you’ve managed to start are with the press, women, scientists, the environment, Mexico, and now Muslims and Syrian refugees.
As you so often tweet: “Sad!” Sad and beyond crazy.
Since election night and in the weeks since, many of us have been trying to look for something positive in all of this. After all, this might be news to you, but that’s what human beings do – we look for light when we’re surrounded by darkness. When the world throws us lemons, we make lemonade. Well, you get the idea. But this time I’ve only been able to come up with one thing: The crazier you get, the saner the rest of us know we are.
On election night and in the weeks after, the dominant emotion was fear. Even though 65,844,954 million of us voted for Hillary Clinton, many of us had never felt so alone.
There was fear about you trampling on women’s, reproductive, LGBT and other human rights. Fear about people losing access to healthcare (hard to understand in Finland, but a YUUUUGE deal in places like the US). Fear about your racist and xenophobic immigration policies, your bromance with Putin (not gonna’ last), your lack of any fucks given about our planet, your disrespect and disregard for the intelligence community (whose job is to keep us safe, you idiot), and your complete lack of knowledge about international relations and the world in general outside Trump Tower. The list goes on and on. And after your first week in office, I think we can all agree that these fears – and many more – are all more than justified.
But here’s the thing. The more people you hate, the more people you limit, the more people you discriminate against, the more of us there are.
The Women’s March last weekend drew at least 4 million people out on to the streets, not only in Washington but all over the world. And right now scientists are planning a march of their own. The press is pissed and I’m pretty sure your attacks will only strengthen, not divide them. People and even foreign governments are now finding new and imaginative ways to respond to all the stupid crap you’ve been pulling. Right at this very moment there are people at airports across the US protesting and eating free pizza in support with the people you’re trying to keep out of our country. And on Saturday a federal judge in New York agreed and granted an emergency stay that says your ban on people from seven Muslim countries is not only immoral but illegal.
Week one is behind us and it’s bad – even worse than many of us even expected.
The bad news is this is only the beginning. But guess what – that’s also the good news. This IS only the beginning. We will resist you and that means there IS hope.
Like Jutta Urpilainen said in 2009, “YES WE CAN!”
“Love,” Lissu