THE election season has ended but for many it has been one of the most stressful in memory. Friends and family members have been unfriending each other on social media because of differences in their preferred candidates. Some young people I know who used to live with their parents have moved out of their family homes.
There is a feeling of gloom among many people I know about how the elections turned out. This is to be expected, of course, since elections always produce winners and losers. Unfortunately, this election made it difficult to have civil conversations about the country's future and what we all need to do together. People are just so divided and many are still smarting from the harsh words exchanged during the run-up to election day. When I checked Google Trends on the day of the elections, there were several spikes in searches for "migration." Are people so despondent that they're seriously considering abandoning their own country? Quite troubling.
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