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Dear Americans, how do you go back to normal after such an election campaign? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The atmosphere is so heated, and the statements are getting more and more extreme. Let's just assume Harris wins the election. After a campaign like this, how could you ever have a normal relationship with your pro-Trump neighbor/father-in-law/Uncle/Barber or what ever again?

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 days ago (2 children)

We... don't? Have you not been watching American news for the last... 9 years? I don't speak with my family because me being trans is not fully accepted by them. I don't really want to associate with anyone who is okay with increasing trans suicides via politics. I moved from North Carolina to Oregon to be in a queer friendly state, and I don't regret it one bit. And I have an appointment to get my passport tomorrow... just in case. I don't know if this country can be fixed. People talk about getting along with our neighbors or meeting in the middle, but I don't know how to get along with people who wish I didn't exist.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And I have an appointment to get my passport tomorrow... just in case.

I wish I could say come to Germany, but things are looking grim over here too :(

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

I do not know of any not-grim countries right now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Getting along with your neighbors" has moved the right more right... and the left... more right. That center isn't what it used to be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

That and the "we don't talk about politics" bs... In my head I always think "Why? Because you're embarrassed of your political beliefs?"