@KuJoe Unfortunately my experience with past situations like this is that the sort of folks I'm talking about instead "process" it in the sense of "moving on to other, non-political things", and end up treating politics like it's just about elections, completely disappearing from the political map outside of election time. The result is that they end up doing fuck-all for the most vulnerable in society. Keep in mind that this is not the first time the elections went like this, we've been here before.

So I think it's entirely reasonable to expect the people insisting "vote for Harris and everything will be okay" to actually put in the work now of materially helping those people that their campaign and strategy has failed. They will, bluntly put, simply have to learn to manage their emotions like marginalized folks are already forced to do every day. Because marginalized folks don't get that "time to process", and they need help right now (and have not stopped asking for help either).

I've especially seen a lot of Black and Brown folks lament how White democrats and liberals are acting all shocked about a completely predictable outcome that they were warned of many times over the past months, and are centering their own situation instead of that of the people they claim to be supportive of, and I can only say that I fully agree with that assessment, and that that needs to change. Not in a few months, but now.