Post-election letdown

The result of the presidential election surprised me and put me into a funk. I considered moving back to Canada, where I worked as a TV and movie director for 16 years, but that was a difficult decision because I have so much family in the U.S. and I love writing this column.

Then I heard that the governors of California and Washington state were not at all happy with Trump and they both declared that they would continue to support women’s rights to have abortions and continue to agree with me on many issues.

It’s still going to be tough for me to turn on the news and constantly see Trump so I’m going be avoiding that kind of programming on television and instead watch sports and the kind of shows I used to direct, such as “M*A*S*H” and “Ally McBeal.” I also just had many of my shows transferred from VHS to DVDs so I can go back in time and enjoy my own movies.

I grew up in Long Island, N.Y., and was a sportswriter for the Suffolk Sun and then a reporter for Newsday. Nassau used to be pretty progressive county but both Nassau and Suffolk counties voted for Trump and that really stunned me.

It’s also very disappointing that people in this country do not want a woman to be president. We’ve had wonderful women, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, run for office but so far it ain’t happening.

Let’s be grateful about where we live and hope and pray that in the future we will be more democratic and more progressive and take care of the poor as well as the rich.