As we all know, the U.S has a sorted history with racism, anti-immigration rhetoric and sentiment, as well as hateful speech against other religions. From the Civil War and its fight for equality and freedom from slavery, to Japanese internment in the Second World War, to modern day fear tactics as a political tool, I can't believe our country has come to this.

Growing up, kids across the U.S have heard all about the American Dream. We heard that anything was possible with hard work an a dream. But if anything has been learned from this election, that most certainly isn't true.

Since I can find little good in this years election results, I had to delve a lot deeper. Maybe this election will have shown people that their complacency will bring no change. It will cost you freedoms and financial agency as well as the innate right to be unashamedly you if you don't exercise your right to vote.

But even more importantly, you will lose your friends and family who belong to minority groups whose precious help in combating those politicians would seek to make them scapegoats for the nations problems. You let them down and you helped in their oppression. If only people in this election saw past their own needs and wants and sought to empower others instead of aid in their destruction.

It's more than red and blue, right or wrong, or even about your politics. As the modern Republican Party seeks to discriminate against each minority and oppressed groups one after another, we all had a chance to stand up and work towards progress and pragmatism.

And anyone who says, "Well I just didn't like her," should feel ashamed. You voted for a man who set this country back decades because of his archaic and 'Glory Days' policies; instead of putting up with a woman for four years who genuinely had the knowledge and skill set to run this country into a new age of progressive and inclusionary policy. And that means that everyone would have prospered.

Even as we come further into December, I'm still ashamed of the choice our nation made.

I just hope those of us willing to put up a fight for those who need help have enough stamina and personal strength to get through these difficult years to come.