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 ...
I’m inclined to allow them some honesty. The Donald phenomenon has discombobulated them. Frankly it even discombobulates ME a little, and I was long back talking about how the Lord was ushering Donald in on His Spirit. But I am not yet completely conformed to that Spirit yet. I know it in the ways I fail daily. If it weren’t for the promise built in to the Christian faith, I should collapse in defeat and frustration. Instead, I see it as growing pains.
The lying corrupt Democrats still managed to be enough of a supportive presence to them (although inefficiently, and at the cost of gratuitously depriving others) that losing this is, indeed, a kind of death experience to them.
But for those who are willing to believe in the Lord, this is by no means the end of the story. With the death unto earth, will come life unto heaven.
philly.com = Philadelphia Inquirer
Digital fishwrap.
That should work out well with all the riffraff Merkel is letting in.
When I saw that Philadelphia had reported before many other parts of the state, I became very hopeful. Trump asked for supporters to serve as poll watchers. With a Republican election judge or poll watcher, when the poll closed with no further voters in line, there would be no way that the precinct head judge could add a few votes. He just had to get the totals and report them.
The fact that the Dems did not call for a recount in close elections is also suspicious. A recount includes closer scrutiny, such as comparing the number of signed receipts to votes or comparing signatures on those receipts to voter registration forms. Organizations like True the Vote have also been working for several years to clean up voter rolls.
I also haven't heard of places where more than 100% of registered voters voted this time. Less fraud leads to a better outcome for Republicans.
As they tell each other how cool they are, cry endlessly because they didn’t get their way, have temper tantrums, wet their beds and then whine about how unfair it is, the adults in the country watch in amazed contempt at just how disconnected from reality liberals are.
We knew liberalism was a mental illness or a shared delusion at best, the ongoing melt down shows just how foolish and stupid these people are.
And yet this same loon had no problem with Bill Clinton, a literal rapist.
I saw a man interviewed in Lancaster about 2a.am on the 9th. He told the MSNBC reporter that there had been 120 Republicans working there this year. Messages had gone out to Trump supporters asking for drivers to take Amish people to the polls. I am sure that Religious liberty was big in their list of concerns. My gratitude to all who helped with this.
Losing both parents at that young age is a world-shattering experience. To compare that tragedy to an election loss shows a complete lack-of-perspective. Donald Trump — or any politician — is not going to ‘care for your’ the way your parents would. Nor should he. The problem with the Left is their philosophy is fundamentally incompatible with the world as it is.
They really are reacting like a 2 year old having a tantrum. It's unpleasant in a 2 year old. It's even less so with what should be an adult.
Without acceptance, the grieving period never ends - gonna encourage them to burn the liberal cities that support them - Priceless!
“I’m inclined to allow them some honesty. The Donald phenomenon has discombobulated them.”
I assume by honesty you mean in their feelings of dispair. I do not deny those may be genuine, for some. My problem is with the media weaponizing it to cement in people’s mind the impression that Trump’s election was such a horrible thing that the general population is traumatized. Combine that with the use of phoney hired protesters, and repeated stories about the sudden “rise in reported hate crimes”. The media is trying to raise opposition to Trump among the American people so they will oppose his agenda. This effort must be challenged before the impression they are trying to create becomes widely accepted.
The line to vote in my district was right out of They Live.
Suck it up, Buttercups!
Conservatives stages of grief:
1. Acceptance
2. Prayer
3. Go to work
4. Repeat 3. and 4.
This IS the Lord’s work. Praise HIM for it! WE didn’t DO
anything except GOT UP and went to the polls in droves
because we knew the Democrat voter fraud would be out of
sight.
They are stuck on denial, anger and depression and, as you pointed out, ‘acceptance is not an option’.
Well the rest of Pennsylvania is pretty damn happy about it, Samantha.
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