In the current tumultuous political environment, I often hear people say “let’s agree to disagree,” when they realize that they really don’t have any reliable source or evidence for their claims or arguments other than that they had heard it in a Trump rally, or from Fox News or Newsmax, or had seen it in some social media post. My response to that: “sure, let’s do that; but that’s all I can do.”

If you are still with me, please note that typical use cases of this phrase is in scenarios or contexts as pedestrian as “I think wine is better, you think beer is better, let’s agree to disagree, and carry on with the rest of our lives.” But if you chose to vote for someone who is

• an adjudicated rapist (if you believe this is an exaggeration, please refer to the jury verdict on E Jean Carroll defamation case, and the legal definition of rape in New York laws),
• a conman (please refer to the publicly available information on the settlement of the case against Trump University for $20 million, and if you are interested enough, comb through the evidence presented in the New York civil fraud case and the over $400 million judgement against Trump Organization),
• a convicted felon (please refer to the jury verdict and the presented evidence in the Manhattan trial case for election interference in 2016),
• a person who incited an insurrection while in office serving as the president of the United States (for this one, you don’t need to go too far, just watch the videos from the morning and afternoon of January 6th, 2021, including Trump’s speech to the angry mob, and the violent attack at the US capitol following that),
• a person who stole and mishandled classified documents (this one will probably need more time, but if you are interested, you can examine the history of the case of classified documents down in Florida, or search for audio tapes of Trump disclosing US military plans for an attack on Iran to a civilian who expresses her disbelief about hearing it from Trump and wonders if that was classified information, and Trump answering by saying that it was classified, and that he could’ve declassified it while he was in office),
• someone who declared, if elected as president, will be a dictator on day one (just search for Fox News’ Sean Hannity’s interview with Trump and the word “dictator”),
• someone who used the phrase “enemy from within”, expressed that he believed the use of military was well justified to deal with the “enemy from within”, and named people from the opposing political party as examples of the “enemy from within”, all in the same interview (you can easily find this interview with Fox online by using the above key phrases),
• someone who called immigrants as people who are “poisoning the blood” of our nation (a phrase famously used by Hitler, and it is not too difficult to find clips of Trump mentioning this, online),
• a grifter who never misses a chance to further grift his supporters by selling them china-made sneakers, bibles, watches, digital trading cards (whatever that means), and other merchandise (if curious, you can search for Trump sneakers with the word “Fight” on them, and see how long it took from the time of attempted assassination in Pennsylvania until the time those sneakers became available to purchase, and don’t be surprised if that time seemed awfully short), and
• someone who pays even his wife’s stylist’s salary from his political action committee (PAC) (search for this information on the web, and keep donating him your hard-earned money if you still feel like you are the one who should be paying for her stylist),

then don’t be surprised if you see your friends flock away from you, your wife or your husband files for divorce, your partner breaks up with you, or your customers take their business elsewhere. And don’t try to create diversions by claiming that some are trying to make everything political. No, this election was never about politics, or even policies. It was about basic human decency. And you chose to be on the side of indecency, and fraud, and rape, and crime. Let alone the possibility of helping install a dictator who has no regard to the Constitution or rule of law, and wants his generals to be like “German generals,” referring to Adolph Hitler’s generals.

Yes, elections have consequences, and along with everyone else, you will also experience the consequences of this election, e.g. when the inflationary effects of his tariffs and mass deportations hit the markets and particularly grocery stores, or when you realize that the tax cuts given to the billionaires and corporations are not really tricking down to you, but that is going to be only the least of it.