₃₅ ₅₀ ₄₈ ₃₃ ₄ₑ<p>Growing up as an <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> I was taught to believe America is a melting pot, a Nation of immigrants and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> and rule of law was what we stood for. </p><p>I saw cracks in this early on as a teen, I witnessed failures time and time again but collectively we still tried to hold on to this idea, to support it despite not agreeing on many things at times.</p><p>We've now elected a <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascist</span></a> who admires <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/dictators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictators</span></a>, has said he shouldn't have left office, has made it clear how little he thinks of <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>women</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> and anyone who disagrees with him.</p><p>His now close friend and surely an advisor, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> hates <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> people. His party rejects the idea that women should have the right to choose much for themselves and the idea that <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> is what has made America great, is now a distant memory to the majority of my country.</p><p>I recall decades ago how the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> was behind in <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> in many ways compared to the rest of the developed world. I can't help but feel in this moment i'm seeing the result of that in action.</p><p>When Trump was put in office the first time, much was uncertain. There is no uncertainty now. I cannot say that anyone who voted for him simply voted for <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/economic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economic</span></a> reasons alone... His positions, his party, his closest friends and what they all support and stand for clearly is <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racist</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/transphobic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transphobic</span></a>, disrespectful of women and rejects everything America stated we stood for.</p><p>I no longer wonder anymore how Hitler, or others ended up in power. I'm living it right now in my own country as a <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> person, as a person who welcomes immigrants, as a person who supports women in their right to choose and as someone who once believed America believed in itself.</p><p>The <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/voters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>voters</span></a> have spoken. The idea of what America has been is clearly dead and what awaits us is more <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/hatred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hatred</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/division" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>division</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/anger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anger</span></a> on all sides.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Election</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Election2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Election2024</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Harris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harris</span></a></p>