As per Edric, I do not wish to gloat when Hillary wins tomorrow or Wednesday morning.

I will celebrate, eat, drink, dance, calm down…decompress…slowly.

I will likely spend the whole day Wednesday sleeping, thinking about what movie to watch at the theatre (likely #DoctorStrange in 3D) and finishing my slideshow for a #Nerdacon panel.

I will be waiting for someone to respond to my post-election job applications.

I’m not interested in gloating. I don’t think much that is favorable about Trump, but the people who have voted for him or will vote for him tomorrow will still be with us on Wednesday.

We will have to work differently than we did under President Obama. The racism and sexism exhibited by both his most ardent supporters and his Republican opponents over the Obama years will still be exhibited in different doses.

But those who voted for him over economic anxieties should not be left behind in not only explaining our economic limitations and dead ends, but charting a course forward to overcome those limitations.

Those who voted for him over their being de-centered in the future of the great American narrative – by sex, gender, sexual orientation or, as egregious as it is, race and skin color – will either find a way to navigate this landscape, hopefully by recognizing their privilege and helping to build a new, more equitable, more domestically compassionate status quo, or will retreat into an organized but dysfunctional socio-economic dystopia of the mind. I’m already doing what I can to dispel that dystopia for the fallacy it is, and to show that everyone should have an equitable role to play in this country, and an equitable chance to play that role.

We live in a small world, and we live in a big world. Our place is not assured, but we will write our own futures. Let’s write futures which will reach out to people who are not like us in shared background but who have the goal of comforting the afflicted, even if this disturbs and rouses the comfortable to wakefulness.