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As the British said, Keep Calm and Carry On.

Keep doing what you are doing. Keep being the person you are. Effect change on your level.

Tune out the news and don’t pay attention to the daily back-and-forth. The pendulum will swing the other way…

In time.

This country is an alcoholic on the verge of rock bottom; this vote, like the Brexit vote, is a tantrum. The panicky shriek of a frightened people whose privilege has lost its currency.

Like most decisions made in anger, it was ill advised.

Angry white America voted for the promise to go back in time. That America would be great AGAIN. Like it WAS. Our manufacturing base will come back. All the brown people will all do away…

It’s white flight from reality.

The world is changing and a lot of frightened people bought a cynical promise to go back in time.

But the clock only moves in one direction. Change is the only constant. Evolution does not favor the strongest, it favors those most adaptable to change. Ask a Brontosaurus.

This will be a hard and ugly four years. Watching an addict hit rock bottom and admit they have a problem that can’t solve on their own is difficult to watch, but if they can accept it, they get to view the world in a new way.

This will be where white America finally gives up its illusion that one day things will go back to being the way they were. And when it slowly dawns on them that the 1950’s are never coming back, it’s going to be ugly.

In the meantime, take care of yourself, try not to look at it and be grateful you are in the 49 % of this country who’s not afraid of the direction of the clock.