These people will be confronted with a choice. Either they put their values aside and make the decision to connect with their loved ones, or they hold onto their grudges and end up angry and alone.
I've been to a number of social events post-election, and this is already beginning to cause havoc. It's more than just asinine "unfollow me if you voted for
him" type posts - it's people affirmatively texting each other like the election Gestapo, trying to suss out who voted for who, then going nuclear when the person refuses to respond or if they intimate anything close to a defense of voting for Trump. As a result, I know plenty of single middle-aged women who have now effectively isolated themselves from their social life - it went from "this is my ride or die group of friends" to "I hate you all and need my therapy TV show" overnight. This is all, of course, disguised as a womens' bodily rights issue, though sometimes they assert that trans death squads are incoming.
My personal suspicion is that there are multiple things at play here: there's no easy argument that Kamala should have won despite the Electoral College (after all, Trump won the popular vote), nobody on the Left wants to acknowledge the utter failure of their current party platform, and everyone is aware of and tired of the usual "orange man bad" assertions at Trump. They're basically hoarse from screaming and no-one cares. They're a bunch of sore losers who unequivocally lost the mandate.
Scary thing is, this is the worst possible time for middle-aged women to pull this nonsense. They're already single, alone, and seething about it, further isolating themselves is just facilitating the problem. Nobody wants to date someone whose emotions are constantly skewed negative thanks to a diet of biased social media content paired with an underlying panic about a biological clock. Sitting in a corner pounding cheap wine and doom-scrolling Tik Tok (what I literally saw at a cocktail party last night) is not a recipe for long-term happiness.
In contrast, the number of knowing, subdued nods I've exchanged with fellow guys has been fun.
