The 2016 election.

StormyKnight wrote: Whale, have any of your students ditched class to be in their "safe places" after the election?

Yeah, because liberal = supporting safe spaces.

Out here my step daughter is at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and she has stated that the campus day after the election was like a morgue in her words. Two of her classes that day were cancelled, and the student center was filled with a variety of crying kids and screaming ranting idiots. She is middle of the road based on her home life and her own perception of things. Yet to maintain friends she has to play a game to still be accepted among the 'idiot' friends who still think they can change the results somehow.
I sit in amazement, when my Dad was this age he was sitting in a bomber over Germany, dealing with it, when I was this age I was wading through rice paddies and dealing with it, these 'kids' today, something is definitely wrong here.
I actually fear for the future is a generation can not 'man up' and deal with the still legal electoral process, if they want change, change the process legally, Article 5 Convention and change the electoral process. But they must understand that 2/3rds of The States are never going to ratify an Amendment that will essentially make them and their populations irrelevant in future elections as those small blue dots in that sea of red choose their President.

Impulse hit the nail on the head. There's a whole of of white privilege in the groups that are most vocal about it. Maybe that's just me in New England. I know I had the experience of a whole lot of white professors telling me how much privilege I had while I was working manual labor in college and taking care of elderly relatives with dementia and other grave health problems. The problem of course, was that I took it personally at the time. I like my guns, hunting, went to church a whole lot for an infidel, and I have a whole boatload of disagreements with Islamic radicals. 

Play-doh and crayons? That seriously happened?

As someone now beginning their 30's, who is currently attending a public university in the "rust-belt", I didn't see anything like that the day after the election. There were no protests, no 'crying kids and screaming ranting idiots' as OS mentioned. No cancelled classes, no safe spaces. Obviously, I wasn't in the best mood but life goes on, man.

One little disappointment and these kids can't cope. Do they understand they have a long life and disappointment is out there and tends to sneak up on you. And there is not enough crayons and play-doh to cover all of life's dissappointments.

This new generation scares me. With all we survived without breaking down to whinning crybaby's, makes me wonder what the future holds.

Edited by oldsoldier - 30 November 2016 at 3:47pm

My issue is all the stories out there about all these college types and 'kids' of this generation, tomorrows leaders, not able to handle that their 'Queen' lost the election and, 'The Sky is Falling' stories all over the information highway of the behavior. Here at UN-L they cancelled clases day after election, have couciling, and a still somber tone on campus according to step-daughter attending classes there. And heaven forbid if her classmates find out she did not vote for Hillary, in fact she did not vote for either, her rational was 'none of the above'. Ans She has seen several 'inquisitions' on campus, on those who voted for Trump, from faculity and students.

I am out of it, reason I bought the farm is to avoid people. I survived Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, and Obama, Trump is just another in a line of idiots in charge with just a different name tag.

Edited by oldsoldier - 30 November 2016 at 11:34pm

It's an odd feeling being in a class that's teaching things that could be directly impacted by this election.  It's one of those 'you know you're an adult when..." moments.  It'll be interesting to see what exactly happens to obamacare. 

"Lord help us when you guys get more senile on average. Hope your generation can get along with your hispanic nurse's aids and your Pakistani VA doctors." Too late already happening.

As for the stories, unless you were blind the week after the election it was almost non stop the 'emotional' effect stories associated with Hillary's loss. From the major media as well as the National Inquirer social media sites.

All I am saying is in my memory to include the radical late 60's early 70's never have seen such an emotional response to an election. Media driven for a furthered agenda, possibly.

Being born during Truman, maturing under Johnson, and later a lot had happened, and on a whole we did not melt down when things did not go 'our way' All I am saying.

You still do not get it. I voted in an "Enemy of my Enemy is my friend" mindset. I too can not stand Trump, but to accomplish my mission of not having Hillary as President I had to vote the only viable option I had, the lesser of the two evils presented IMHO.

The actual concerns addressed are the 'forgotten' of political flyover areas of the country that Democrats tend to forget. And like stated the conversations in the elite coffeehouses in the blue bastions of idiocy are no where near the concerns and conversations of the farmers here at the Squeegie Mobil Station on their 9AM coffee break as they work 19-20 hours a day to get the harvest in so those on the East and West Coast in those Blue alcoves of idiocy can eat.

I appreciate you are horrified by Trump, shows how disconnected you are as you follow your biased media. What you and yours still do not understand it is you and yours that created the Trump, and you obviously have not got a clue on how.