It was supposed to be an upbeat story in Women’s Health magazine about how to take your anger and convert it into something useful. Like making lemonade from lemons. Unfortunately for the intended purpose, the article just comes off as just plain angry and the author just can’t get over her anger. No lemonade from her very angry lemons.
The story was written by former Hillary for America employee Amanda Litman who, despite her effort to make her anger constructive, obviously fails in that attempt. However, the fringe benefit of her story is the unintended humor it presents the readers in the form of a look into the Drama Queen mindset of an angry liberal on Election Night and the time since then. She puts on a sort of very unconvincing happy face in ‘I Wake Up And Go To Sleep Angry—And That’s A Good Thing’:
Instead, I made jokes. As an employee of Hillary for America, I spent that night in the staff room at the Javits Center with my coworkers, underneath a literal glass ceiling that we were planning to metaphorically crack upon our shared victory. We watched the results roll in on a projected TV, laptops out and phones plugged in, refreshing Twitter and expecting good news—and then, later that night, praying for a miracle.
I didn’t recognize who I was anymore. Before the election, I was never a yeller, a crier, a feel-anything-all-er, and yet now, somehow, I’m all of those things.
I wake up and go to sleep angry. – READ MORE
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