Letter: Disgust is not sour grapes

It has taken me some time to digest what happened in America Nov. 8.

I will probably lose friends and neighbors over this election because that’s how much I am upset about how anyone could vote this man (?) as the leader of the country I so proudly served.

The next day, my grandson asked me a question I could not answer. He asked, “Poppie, how could people have made that man president after all the things he did and said?” Dead silence. I had no answer. This wasn’t a Clemson vs. South Carolina football game where you “hate” the other side, this was “America the beautiful.” How could anyone not see the basic differences in these two?

Some will say this is sour grapes. I am being told to get over it, he is president. So I think back to all the “Don’t blame me, I voted for Bush” bumper stickers when Bill Clinton won, and how our Republican members of Congress got together and collaborated to make this Barack Obama’s presidency fail. I remember how people still think he was not born here or that he is a Muslin.

But I am suppose to get over it?

I don’t care if a Republican is president. What I cared about was not this man.

So gloat about the victory all you want, but politics will never be the same. Anyone can have anything against them and still become president.

So congratulations, but take a look what you did to America.

This story was originally published November 15, 2016 at 12:05 PM with the headline "Letter: Disgust is not sour grapes."