#I am absolutely going to That Bitchy Aunt who causes problems at Thanksgiving dinner eventually and that spite is keeping me going

[seiya-starsniper]

I want you to stay alive, so that in 10, 20, maybe if we're lucky 30 years from now, when all of this is a bad dream and the world has somehow clawed back democracy from the jaws of defeat, you can tell the next generation what their parents, uncles, and even their grandparents did.

When your sons and daughters, nieces and nephews come home from school and talk about all the terrible things Trump did for the world, I want you to be there at family dinner to say, "did you know your parents/uncles/aunts voted for Trump?" I want you to see the look of shock and horror on their faces, I want you to see your conservative relatives try to justify what they did. I want them to yell later in private, "I thought we buried the hatchet! You said everything was fine now!" and I want you to look them in the eye and say "I am alive despite you, not because of you. I am here not because I love YOU, but because I love the next generation more. And I am here because I want them to know how you chose the economy over their favorite relative."

I know a lot of people have cut off their relatives after this election, and this is not a post to tell you to stay in touch. This post is for people who have to keep familial ties for one reason or another, for people still in the closet, for people who need to smile and pretend like everything's okay to survive. Your time will come. Stay alive until then.