i was sitting on my couch, in tears, and my dad, an Old Liberal, sits down next to me and he says
‘i know i can’t say anything that will make any of this better, but i want you to know that, in 1980, when i was 18 years old, i watched the country elect ronald reagan, and i was just as devastated as you are now. it felt like everyone had gone insane. my friends and i joked about moving to canada or japan or england, just like you are with your friends. i was angry then, and i’m still a little bitter now, but I got through it. we all did. donald trump is not ronald reagan, i know, but if i can get through it, so can you.’
anyway that soothed my hurt a miniscule amount, hope it soothes you a bit
holy shit i woke up and this had 18,000 notes
i really do appreciate the sentiment but like a whole fucking generation of gay people did not get through the reagan administration
Really exhausted with seeing people hijacking posts people made about a personal exchange between loved ones comforting each other just because they need to be angry.
You are allowed to be angry. You are not allowed to try and take someone else’s comfort from them just because their personal exchange was not worded in exactly the way you wanted it to be. Let people have comfort. We are all hurting right now.