Will the Dust ever settle?

Voting is a right of every American citizen in this great nation of ours.  I voted.  I stood in line on Tuesday, November 8th for 1 hour 20 minutes to cast my vote.  I take voting very very seriously.  I've been voting since I was 18 which mean I've voted for 40 years now.  That's 10 presidential elections.  My choice was not always the one who acquired the office of POTUS, but sometimes they did.  I never voted because my candidate looked good, was a minority, or was of the female gender.  I did careful research and voted based on what they said they could do and what was feasible for them to accomplish.

This particular election however I have never experienced the intense hatred, emotional overkill, or planned harm to those who voted for our current President Elect.  It appals me.  At the same time I've never heard of schools offering "comfort rooms" for students whose candidate didn't win.  Offered counseling.  And then there are the teachers who brought their issues about the new POTUS Elect to their classroom to share with impressionable children.  This is just not right!

What happened to respecting each other, and accepting a decision with grace and poise.  I did not vote for Former Secretary of State Clinton, I did not agree with her at all.  But the grace of her acceptance speech was certainly one for the history books.  She moved on, she moved forward and said "Give the Man a chance."  Classy move Ms. Clinton.

But even last night I hear of riots in the streets over the election.  Is this what other countries face?  Will the anger and fear ever ease so we can move forward and heal as a nation?  One nation under a higher power that has all citizens under her protection?

So I go to work and keep a rather low profile.  The shock has worn off a bit for many of my co-workers - they are even saying good morning.  I don't laugh with glee over the fact that my candidate won.  I remain quiet and let them mourn their loss.  They have to process just as I've had to process in the past.

At least the hateful horrible ads have ended.  There ought to be laws regarding those.  I did get a lot of streaming movies watched this election cycle.  Yay NetFlix and Amazon Prime and Hulu!