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Holding Space For Those Who Voted For Trump In 2016

When I was younger, I didn’t care about politics or civics at all. To me, it was all B*S*, all politicians were corrupt, and all of it had little to do with my reality of raising my children as a single mom, trying to buy food and budget my inadequate finances to stay afloat. I thought the rantings of my elders was just so much of a social trope (think the image of an old man complaining “things aren’t like they used to be.”) In today’s  lack  of cohesive society, and with the hindsight of age, I now understand their concerns. So I sat down to maybe glean some ideas of how to be part of the  solution  instead of the  problem  or worse, turn a blind eye. I hope my thoughts even awaken ideas within others. The last four years of American history have been, in short,  a flaming dumpster fire . I’m not going to list it all, it’s just socially and emotionally obscene. And there’s a  lot  of people out there who voted for Trump i...