text: Thank you, Sr Joan.  This election was devastating to me as an American, as a christian.  Devastating not only because a totally unqualified, uneducated in policy issues, con man manipulated voters by playing on their fears and prejudices, but also for what it says about what has happened to our country.  The ideals of America - the shining city on the hill, the ideals engraved on the Statue of Liberty (give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free) - are gone, destroyed by voters who chose a man whose statements and rhetoric are both un-christian and un-American.  America now turns its back on those who suffer.  Jesus said to love, not to hate. 
  
  What has happened to the American people that they would choose such a man?  Hillary was very flawed in countless ways. But her flaws, weaknesses and even lies pale next to those of the man who was elected. His were beyond any normal political candidate - yet he won.  A demagogue.  I weep for our country.