Posted on 11/17/2016 3:14:45 AM PST by Prov1322
For many of the more than a million people in greater Philadelphia who backed Hillary Clinton for president, the language of political campaigns is inadequate to describe what they’ve experienced since the election returns came in.
Shissler Rec Center in Fishtown with chalk windows, symbolizing the co-opting of swastikas for the concept “Let in the Light.”
After Trump's win, Philly tries to cope through stages of grief -- but 'acceptance is not an option' Instead, they’re turning to the language of mourning.
“I lost both my parents by the time I was 23. I know what real debilitating grief feels like, and that is what this is,” said Justine Haemmerli, 32, of South Philadelphia.
“I felt like my grandmother died all over again,” said Steve Dolph, 34, of Mount Airy. "There was the same effect: nausea, disbelief, a sense of emptiness, devastation."
Yosef Goldman, 38, a rabbi at Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel in Center City, put it in Jewish terms, naturally: “Many people are experiencing this as something of a shiva. But when everyone is sitting shiva, who brings the food? How do we find comfort when we’re all feeling at such a loss?”
Now, in a city where Clinton beat Donald Trump by a 5-1 margin, thousands of people are still fumbling for ways to cope.
Their responses have been personal and professional, political and practical.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Good grief....Send in the clowns...Never mind....Hiillary did that already.
That’s the ticket.
Deny reality.
Make yourselves even more irrelevant like good little democrats.
That’s just denial. Which is the first stage of grief.
Still, their tears gladden my heart.
I'll stop gloating sometime.
Halfway through Trump's second term perhaps.
God, through Donald, has given the people what they need even when they don’t think yet that they needed it.
Patience, patience, patience is the watchword now. As time sequences go, the mushroom cloud has scarcely begun to form over the Hiroshima of leftist folly.
Things are NOT normal. Donald is a humongous reset button, which is an upset lefty applecarts button. They don’t yet realize what is poised to take its place.
The bible advises don’t gloat at ALL when God is putting the beat down on your enemies — the danger being that you will think it is about yourself, and then God might even stop in order to chastise you.
N.E. Pa delivered the the state for Trump!
I’d advise these driveling poltroons to put on their jammies and have a nice hot cup of cocoa.
Agree with you about the scriptural admonition about gloating. I have spent the days since the election marveling at what the American people have accomplished, taking joy in seeing the results and praying for the multitudes of mentally ill that have surfaced all around us.
Philly is just so used to being able to overwhelm the rest of the state politically, it is truly enjoyable to see Pennsyltucky bite back this time.
Put a cheese steak on it.
Are there any precincts in Philly where Clinton, like Obama, got 100% of the vote?
Michigan was also a great state.
Much has been accomplished “through the American people” but “by the Lord.”
God set His ducks up in a row, and we have just now heard the “BANG” of God’s shot.
These stories are designed to convince people that Trump’s election was a terrible thing. Just like all the stories of the rise in hate crimes. Unless they are countered people will accept them as fact.
Is someone combing through the Philadelphia voting records to see who voted illegally?
I look at this, of course, from a Christian point of view.
This kind of reaction shows us, in miniature, why salvation was something so dreadfully hard for Jews to accept. They thought they had it made, with the most beautiful explicit spiritual philosophy known to mankind — but with the caveat that it was all about living for earth. Living for heaven sounded absurd. Like the bible says, it is a kind of dying. We discard the “good” earthly life for the sake of donning the “perfect” heavenly one. I suggest to those mourning rabbis, God Himself will serve comfort to you, if you will only not be too proud to receive it.
“I lost both my parents by the time I was 23. I know what real debilitating grief feels...
No. no you don’t. If you can compare Trump being elected over that lying corrupt criminal Hillary Clinton, to losing your parents you are a very sick person!
What they are really upset about is that the City of Brotherly Love did not manufacture enough fake ballots to overcome the rural counties and the Amish vote.
To overcome Philly in an election is a God thing.
Thank You, Lord!
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