After the election, I posted the following on facebook: "This is not the America I swore to defend". Of course, when I entered the Marine Corps, I swore to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and the fact is that the result of this election - as distasteful as it was to me - was a Constitutional result. So my facebook post requires more explanation.

I had specific things in mind when I posted this. I did not swear to defend racism, misogyny, homophobia, religious intolerance. Those activities are excluded by the Constitution, and to the extent that truly racist, misogynous, homophobic, intolerant religious extremists voted for a candidate, I did not swear to support you. In fact, I will oppose you with every fiber of my being. But not everyone who voted based their vote on these beliefs, and I recognize that. I have to accept the outcome because that's what the Constitution requires.

The question I've posed for myself is "What now?" I've been searching for an answer, and one answer is to wait and see. The problem with that answer, for at least some of the difficulties we face, is that we really can't wait. I'm thinking specifically of climate change, but certainly inequality (in income, in race relations, in gender equality, etc.) can't wait either. I'm still searching for a good response. For now, I can simply affirm my opposition to inequality of all types.