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Why I'm not moving to Canada and I hope you don't either

Dear fellow Americans, Yesterday I woke up singing "sister suffragette" with misty eyes.  "Cast off the shackles of yesterday  shoulder to shoulder - into the fray!" Not because I love Hillary Clinton. Because of the historical significance that she was even on the ballot. That the idea a woman could run for president won't be a fairy tale to my children. As I sat on the brown corduroy couch in my predictably blue state I watched state after state shock the news as it came up bright red. Friends, history is alive right now. We are the American people and the generation experiencing this shift in paradigm today. How are we going to respond? Susan B. Anthony's grave was covered with women's "I voted" stickers yesterday.  I don't think Susan B. Anthony would leave the country if she was alive today. Did she leave the country or threaten to when she was arrested for illegal voting? Did Rosa Parks try to leave the country after s