Mr. Stephenson:  You already have First Amendment protection and are perfectly free to gloat over Mr. Trump's victory.  Indeed, Republicans have a strangle-hold on the House of Representative in Red State America.  You do remember, I presume, that each ten years Districts are reapportioned by State legislatures and gerrymandered to insure continued dominance by the Party controlling the legislature. So Red States will likely remain Red and Blue States Blue.......that's the way American democracy is "working" today. 

 We are a nation with great political, social and economic divides.  It would be nice if we could work together to address the many issues we face: poverty and income inequity; homelessness, lack of health care; widespread unemployment and underemployment; lack of affordable child care for working parents, racism and discrimination, xenophobia, bias and discrimination against the LGBT community, under-performing public schools (including high drop-out rates), (cont)