Before I even start this post I
want to thank all those in the military for protecting my freedom and the
American way of life. You and yours have sacrificed so much for all of us. This
is your day and I commend you. Now on to my post.
I am so done with being told I
have to suck it up, move on, the protesters are whiners and on and on. I am not
trying to impose my thoughts on anyone. We are all free to think as we want,
vote for who we want and feel the way we want. That is our right in the USA and
I am NOT trying to force you to believe what I believe at all but am attempting
to show the big picture.
I get the people who are red
because I was raised red. I understand how the despair gets so deep that you
can’t find any way out of your situation. You want to hurt something in the worst
way in hopes that it will make you feel better. It is sad to watch farmers lose
out to big farming, to see parents who can’t send their child to college, to
not be able to feed your kids nor have a slice of the American Dream. I get
that.
What I don’t get is the hate that
it’s someone else’s fault. Our lives are a line, sometimes straight and sometimes
crooked, of decisions that we make. What happens to us is our own fault. Sure,
circumstances would seem to point differently. But let’s think about the jobs
those so-called illegal immigrants have supposedly taken from you. Right now,
they hold the most menial of jobs overall. They are cleaning toilets, picking
produce, making beds and doing the things that MOST white America does NOT want
to do. So what’s the problem with them? Nothing. The problem is your attitude
that shoving them out will make a difference. It won’t.
We, the white people of America,
brought the slaves here to pick our cotton and help us in whatever we needed.
It is our fault that they are here. Most of them didn’t want to come here at all.
They had homes, families and a totally different way of life. But wars in their
own countries lead to other blacks selling them off. Today, they are a vital
part of our society and have achieved much for our country. What’s the problem
with them? Nothing, they are just different than you. Pushing them out will
solve nothing. Nothing.
And we started out doing the wrong
thing from the moment we stepped foot on this shore, we the white people, when
we cheated the Indians, the true First Peoples of this great land of ours. We
continue to cheat them because we MUST maintain our way of life. We cheat them
out of land, out of privilege and out of their rights because it impedes our
progress. Never mind that we’re killing the environment to do it. Never mind
that we’re trampling on THEIR RIGHTS because it’s OUR country. Yeah, kiss that
theory goodbye.
Let’s get one thing straight. The
earth is no one’s. I have always been surprised it hasn’t shaken us off like a
bunch of fleas. It has limited resources that we are depleting daily and we’re
not getting the big picture here because we only live a hundred years. We have
no earth perspective because most humans can’t fathom that much time. For those
of us who can, the world is a scary place and is about to make our lives
miserable. Climate change is here and there is no denying it. We must do our
part to prevent it so there is a world for our children, our grandchildren, our
great-grandchildren and down the line.
Lastly, we need to get off this
rock, something that can only be accomplished when we work together. Our world,
like ourselves, has a limited lifetime. If we don’t start looking for
alternatives, we will die out as a species. No, it’s not going to happen today
or tomorrow or even twenty years from now unless some sort of unforeseen catastrophe
hits us. But it will happen and the species needs to be working together toward
the goal of space travel.
My final note is about Trump himself.
The man needs to speak up if he really wants unity in this country. He needs to
do what’s right by all of us. That means, he needs to address the protest, the
anti-hate crimes and other things happening around this country because of the
election. He needs to be firm yet embrace us all because we are all in this
together. He needs to take the wind out of their sails and make them understand
their behavior if it’s bad is not right or good for this country. He won with
only 25.8% of the voting populace because over 50% of them feel so
disenfranchised that they don’t vote because in their honest opinion their vote
DOESN’T matter. The rest of us are trying to make sense of this horrible week
and move on with our lives.
Good or bad, this is what is
happening to us. We need to make it work for everyone, not just the few who won
but every man, woman and child in this great land we call home.
Here’s a few articles that have
rolled across my social media I think you should read:
More on the social unrest ~ https://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/welcome-to-trumps-america-58-reports-of-people-bullied-by-emboldened-bigots-and-the-list-is-growing
Arizona Racist on Trump’s Team ~ http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/10/1595617/-The-architect-of-the-most-racist-law-in-modern-American-history-has-been-named-to-Trump-s-team
The KKK is back! ~ http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/10/1595828/-The-North-Carolina-Ku-Klux-Klan-announces-they-will-hold-a-Trump-victory-parade-in-December
Gotta Love California ~ http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/10/1595296/-California-Does-The-Right-Thing-in-the-Face-of-Trump
Roundup on Government Programs
& You ~ http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/11/1596545/-Abbreviated-pundit-roundup-How-Trump-will-affect-your-federal-and-state-taxes-Medicare-and-more
A Promising Women’s Group ~ http://www.theunitedstateofwomen.org/fight-like-hell/
His Planned 1st 100
Days ~ http://www.npr.org/2016/11/09/501451368/here-is-what-donald-trump-wants-to-do-in-his-first-100-days
On Getting Our Respect ~ http://www.politicususa.com/2016/11/09/trump-supporters-give-chance-forget-treated-president-obama.html
That’s about it for today. See you
tomorrow with more.
1PoliticalMama
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