Disbelief
Today is a day of many emotions, all of which have left me speechless. Everything else aside, I don't know what to say to a country that has gone through what we have over the past four years and votes to continue along the same path. More of the same for the next four years? Yes, please. Of course even that is something of a best case scenario, assuming that things won't get worse. It is difficult not to lose faith in the American people in the wake of such a decision, to imagine that things will be different in the future. How much worse does it have to get before a majority can agree that we need a change?
I try to look at the bright side. Maybe some new Supreme Court justices will be appointed that will re-examine the law's definition of life and its parameters. Maybe this will actually be good for the Democratic Party in the long run, the impetus needed to "shed their inhibitions about talking about faith" and realign with the working-class Americans that their policies attempt to support. Maybe. But right now that light at the end of the tunnel is looking pretty dim.