The election is finally over, and a new president will take office in 2017. The person that won has said things against many different minority groups, many different religions, many different sexual orientations, and many different genders. The news outlets are now saying, oh well, it is time to heal any wounds that have been formed over this election and move on. If this were a partisan issue there would be no trouble in doing so. However, when oppression is tolerated, and people do not resist evil, then evil can grow in peace. Letting things go and saying "oh well, there is always another election in four years" is not an option this time. In four years everything that this country has done in the past 60 will be wiped away. The way that this relates to psychology is this, distance from an event diminishes passion about said event.
It is an obvious statement to say that people will care less about something the longer ago that it happened. It is this way with every tragedy. People go so far as to make them into jokes. The amount of Holocaust and 9-11 jokes on the internet is astounding. This is dangerous. People do not have an attention span that is beneficial to revolution anymore. We stop caring that people are oppressed and we care more about ourselves than people who live just next door. We are only 3 days out from the election and the passion and desire to make any sort of difference is already diminishing. In a democracy, the rule is supposed to be by the people. If a large enough group of organized people tell the government its demands, it can not refuse. Before our minds become okay with the idea of oppression things must be done. Otherwise, as history has shown, we will become desensitized to the problem.
C.F.
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