Have you ever wept after a presidential election result?

I was literally crying a few minutes ago after the Brazilian president-elect was announced. He is a horrible human being - the racist, misogynistic, homophobic right-wing candidate.

Do most people just not see it???

How does such a man get elected in a country where over 50% of the population is black and over 51% are women?

Have you ever felt so saddened that you cried over election results?

[Edit: mind you that voting here is not a right, it's a duty.]

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  • Tealights

    I wish voting in the USA was mandatory.

    When Trump won, I felt defeated because Electoral votes only matter, and angry that polls in some cities were moved far from bus terminals/routes, and many with stable transportation didn't bother to vote.

    In my state, voting polls were always in schools and libraries for YEARS, like 4 presidential terms worth of years since I've been here. However, suddenly, the polls were far away in rural areas that made no sense for 2016. I still went out there to vote, I didn't care how far away it was. Now for the upcoming midterm elections, all the polls are back in schools and libraries...

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  • Iamagirl

    I feel like this site is mostly conservatives, so likely none of them cried when Trump was elected, or will admit to crying when a black man was elected president. I teared up a bit when I was going to bed and it looked like Trump would actually win. As a queer mentally ill woman, I am terrified of what Trump is thinking of doing to what SHOULD BE our basic human rights. And I also believe that people of color should be treated like human beings, unlike some people, so I'm very concerned for them, including immigrants (let's be honest, mostly immigrants of color are the ones being discriminated against right now). He just proposed a law that would take rights away from transgender people, which angers me and scares me because I have friends that are trans and to make their lives even MORE difficult and unfair is bullshit. And health care scares me too, especially because my family is middle class and my grandmother has dementia and she's only getting worse. And medications for the entire family because three out of four of us have mental health problems and two have physical health problems (that they need to take medication for). Anyway that's my long liberal ass opinions on America. We've always been a racist and hateful country (Native Americans, Chinese, Japanese, African Americans, women, gays, transgender people, disabled people, mentally disabled people, immigrants, the list can go on actually), so I'm not sure why I was so shocked that Trump won. I just hope we will change, because I'm so so tired of hating this country. I live here and I want to love where I'm from. But everyone is making it so hard.

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    • Thank you for taking the time to write that comment, very heartfelt <3

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  • JD777

    Didn’t the party that just got voted out have a long history of deep corruption? Looks like it was a landslide vote for change. I hope things work out better for Brazil.

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  • charli.m

    I just saw :/ I'm sorry.

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    • Thanks. Had never felt this emotional before. ;)

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    • Or so disgusted. :(

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  • kelili

    I have been following the election in Brazil and no the Brazilian population is not over 50% black. That's a common misconception. Just google it and you'll be surprised.

    Fascism is escalating. I don't know why we keep voting for the people who show so much hate and intolerance. And how they managed to get Lula out of the race is simply disgusting.

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    • Over 50% of our population is made up of blacks and pardos (mixed race). If you want to get technical less than 10% identify themselves as black, but over 40% identify as pardo - which basically means over 50% of the population is made up of non-whites.
      https://agenciadenoticias.ibge.gov.br/agencia-noticias/2012-agencia-de-noticias/noticias/18282-pnad-c-moradores

      And, yes, it's been disgusting. Just as Dilma's impeachment/coup was. :/

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      • kelili

        The world is shrinking exponentially. I don't know what lies ahead but it looks scary.

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  • Seriously? NONE of you cried when Trump was elected? Just the American Horror Story Cult main character?!?

    I'm fictional, it seems.

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    • geek_god_101

      I was happy as all hell when Trump was elected. Hillary is a bitch who can be shot and I wouldn't cry. Trump says it how it is. No double talk or translation in my own language needed.

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    • leggs91200

      Trump has been the guy that everyone loves to hate since at least 33 years ago that I remember.

      I think a lot of us already knew that needle dick bigot piece of homophobic, misogynistic shit would end up in office when he decided to run.

      The only good thing about having Trump in office is the next president won't look nearly as bad.

      I do not think too many cried BUT I for one can certainly understand why someone would. I cried tears of joy when my last excuse of a cunt supervisor got fired.

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  • Servian

    I mean... if I was living in a country with a bunch of corrupt people I would vote for the person of the party that didnt recently get arrested on corruption charges. Fernandos parties' previous runner was arrested on corruption charges.

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    • A question, does "I would vote for the person of the party that didnt recently get arrested on corruption charges" still stand if the other party is more corrupt than the one arrested?

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    • Are you from Serbia or is it just a random username?

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    • Yeah, hard to argue over the internets. :/ It's not that simple. The previous president from the same party was impeached without any corruption charges - based on a fiscal procedure all other previous presidents were also guilty of, but never questioned about.

      The 8 years Lula (the one who is currently in arrest) was president most poor people had a better life than in any other time in the history of Brazil.

      Personally, this election result does not affect me as much as the people who live in really miserable conditions. Yet, I still weep.

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  • bubsy

    The fact that you are getting emotional over an election result means you are being manipulated via your emotions. Fear is very, very persuasive, and you were made to be afraid just as the liberal Left of the US was made to be afraid about Trump.

    You can either see through this fear or continue to be controlled by it. It's hard to break out of a mass hysteria bubble.

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    • factcheck

      You're still being controlled by fear. Fear leads to people like Trump and this Brazilian fascist being elected, not the other way around. The mass hysteria they create by making people like you fear immigrants, refugees, etc is what gets them votes. It's why they both admire Hitler so much, he was one of the most successful demagogues of all time.

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      • bubsy

        Do you recall the dozens of women who claimed Donald Trump sexually assaulted them just prior to the presidential election? What happened to those women, and why didn't they follow-up on their claims? Even if he won--especially since he won--why wouldn't they see justice done?

        A rapist in the whitehouse?!

        It's because it was all theatrics. The claims were false, made to elicit an emotional response to persuade voters. This is one of 1000s of persuasive techniques that occured during that election. They may not be logical but they work on an emotional, basic level, and enough combined is enough to sway moderate voters.

        We humans feel first and think second. We are emotional beings who mostly use logic to justify our emotions. The only way to understand how manipulated you are being is to understand how emotional you are getting. If the news has you in tears, beware and take a serious step back.

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        • factcheck

          Do you remember when Donald Trump was caught on tape admitting to doing exactly what they said he did and bragging about getting away with it? Do you remember when he ex wife said he raped her and he didn’t deny it, only falsely claimed that it’s not rape if the couple is married? Do you remember all of the other countless statements he’s publicly made that show how misogynistic he is?

          You fear a society where men are held responsible for treating women poorly. That’s why you defend men who treat women poorly, that’s why you convince yourself that their claims must be false despite overwhelming evidence.

          Again, you are the one being manipulated. I know you won’t see it now, maybe you never will, but the fact remains that all of human history shows people like Trump gain support by exploiting fear and the people who oppose them have always proven to be on the right side.

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          • bubsy

            "You fear a society where men are held responsible for treating women poorly. That’s why you defend men who treat women poorly, that’s why you convince yourself that their claims must be false despite overwhelming evidence."

            I don't recall ever saying this. Hell, check my recent comment history and you'll see how anti-Sharia Law I am. What I'm trying to do and what you're failing to do, is to take the emotion out of my argument and look at the pure logic around it. Why would the dozens of women who made rape claims against Trump prior to the election not follow up on those accusations?

            Those in the media who are anti-Trump would absolutely jump at the opportunity and make sure their voices were heard. It would be a scandal that'd make Bill Clinton's bj in the oval office look like a joke. Yet this hasn't happened. The only logical conclusion I can find is that those accusations were false to begin with, and used only as an emotional manipulation tool for the election.

            Speaking of emotional manipulation and rape claims, why aren't we hearing any more about Christine Blasey Ford? Why isn't she, her attournies and the Democrats pursuing her rape claim still? You haven't heard a word out of her since Kavanaugh got on the Supreme Court. If the claims were legitimate, what would it matter if Kavanaugh was on the Supreme Court or not?

            The reality is, Ford's claim was only used as an emotional manipulation tool, the same as all those rape claims against Trump. Now that the election/nomination is over, the rape claims are no longer pursued. Weird how that works, isn't it?

            Do me a favor, factcheck, and either change your screenname or start thinking more logically.

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            • factcheck

              For all of your talk about taking out emotions and thinking logically, your post sure has a whole lot of emotion and not much logic. Your belief that women would continue to follow up on their accusations is an emotional one, not a logical one. Logically, if they were going to pursue a criminal case, they would've done that already. So, logically, why are they bringing it up now? Logically, to stop their rapist or attempted rapist from becoming President or a Supreme Court justice. Once the election is over and the Senate votes, logic dictates there's nothing else for them to pursue. It's over. It's weird that you would think they would continue to pursue it at this point.

              Speaking of logic, why did you completely ignore the majority of my post? Specifically, where I pointed out that Donald Trump has admitted to doing what those women said he did and bragged about getting away with it. Logically, that shows you know that they're telling the truth. If you really wanted to apply logic to the Kavanaugh/Ford situation, you would look at the fact that Kavanaugh was caught lying under oath multiple times and while Ford was as honest as she could be every time she spoke. Logically, that tells you she has more credibility that he does. If you wanted to apply logic, you would look at the fact that the investigation made no attempt to actually investigate the allegations by talking to anybody who knew both of them at the time, including the one person who could directly support Ford's claim and several other people who could make or support similar claims. If you were thinking logically, the only logical conclusion is that they wanted to hide the truth. But you aren't thinking logically, you're thinking emotionally.

              The reality is that those women were telling the truth. Anybody can see that. Nobody actually believes they were lying. But your emotional response, anger over the nerve of these women to stand up to such powerful men, causes you to lash out with baseless accusations and twisted logic in a vein attempt to discredit them and discourage other women from coming forward. You expect it to work, just like you expect your attempts to manipulate readers into believing you're not thinking emotionally will work.

              And finally, since we're on the topic of logic, it's illogical to be anti-Sharia Law yet also be a conservative, which your comment history shows you are. There's no substantive difference between Sharia Law and the "religious freedom" that conservatives preach. The only difference between the Middle East and the United States is that there are more secularists in the United States preventing conservative Christians from implementing the exact same anti-women and anti-gay laws they have in the Middle East. This is another fact that you can't deny, because it wasn't that long ago that conservative Christians had a lot more control over the US government and those laws were in place...women couldn't work, go to school, vote, or drive in the not too distant past...gay people had no rights in the very recent past...and conservative Christians weren't the ones who changed the laws. They've fought it every step of the way. You would know all of this if you looked at it logically, but your fear of people who don't look or sound like you clouds your judgment and politicians like Trump manipulate you and exploit that fear in their favor.

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          • McBean

            Your position needs clarification here. Sounds like you are saying that you feel persecuted, and you know that persecution is a reality, not a subjective perception. Is this correct?

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    • As I see it, the mass hysteria is what elected this horrible man.

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  • nikkiclaire

    Someone I really care about lives there. I hope that you are overreacting and that everything will be ok.

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