To the Editor:
Some advice for heartbroken Americans from a British “Remain” voter:
You will go through the five stages of grief, multiple times.
You will look at everybody suspiciously (he didn’t, did he?).
You will feel like a stranger in your own country.
You will be embarrassed when you go abroad (I display an “I voted Remain” badge when I go to mainland Europe).
You will have to accept the truth that a huge number of your fellow countrymen are, at the bottom of it, racist.
You will become exhausted by the whole business.
You will seek out like-minded people for comfort.
And in the end, you have to believe that it will all shake down O.K.
HELEN CLUTTON
Dorchester, England
Note from KBJ: I have some advice of my own for "heartbroken Americans":
- You will experience precisely what millions of Americans experienced when you elected a community organizer as our president.
- You will be embarrassed that you did this when you see what a real leader looks like.
- You will realize that you voted for Barack Obama solely in order to alleviate your guilt at being white, and that this makes you a racist.
- You will realize that you voted for Hillary Clinton solely in order to put a woman in the White House, and that this makes you a sexist.
- You will seek out like-minded people for comfort, thereby ensuring that you fail to understand why so many of us voted for Donald Trump.
As you were.
