Four years ago, what was our choice?
What do you do when you are offered two choices, neither one of which you want?
Helplessly, we kept electing our representatives who went to Washington and then did nothing for us as we watched our country slide into oblivion. Many of us didn’t like it, but we voted for the man who was obviously talented, beholding to no one but us, and who was NOT part of the big political machine that kept letting us down.
We didn’t like it, ( many of us ), but we made the best choice we had available to us, and frankly, it wasn’t a difficult decision to figure out, it just wasn’t everything we might have wished for. Then as time went on we were rewarded by more accomplishments and achievements than we had even dreamed were possible, and, as for that bad side, we were also treated to a four year long tantrum by the opposition where we saw behaviors both unprecedented and inexcusable, where the opposition seemed to abandon all normal rules of conduct and began an assault upon our character and values like has rarely been seen in modern times.
It has now become a sin to be of the wrong color as much, or more so, than it has ever been, the only thing that has changed is which color is currently out of favor , furthermore, the opposition has engaged in all the behaviors it claims to be fighting against. Fighting fire with fire, or in this case, quite literally, fighting hate and bigotry with even more fervent hate and bigotry of their own.
Make no mistake, I didn’t vote for Trump, I voted for my country and the values and freedoms all our veterans fought to preserve, Trump was just the name on the ballot that gave the most promise of actually trying to protect and defend that freedom, and those values. I didn’t care for the manner in which I thought he might behave, but that was not the primary concern. His actual performance, buried and ignored this whole time, was actually shockingly good, more than I’d dare hope for, but the manufactured hatred for him overshadowed everything else, even as the smoke from riot and fires filled our skies.
The opposition has told us in no uncertain terms what they intend to do. The have treated others with a hatred, disdain, and lack or respect that rivals anything we have seen in modern times.
There is every reason to believe that our rights will be stripped.
For one, because many of our rights have already been stripped. Freedom of speech is now only for the one viewpoint, and not for the other, censorship and public reprisals are a fact of life now, as the opposition well knows, and enjoys.
And Two. Because those now about to take power, have told us plainly, and boldly, what they intend to do. It’s not me who says they intend to strip me of more rights, It is THEY who say it of themselves! They simply claim that doing so is for the greater good, and is in the interests of justice for all, the same as all previous despots and dictators have done when they too stripped power from the people, and secured it unto themselves.
It breaks my heart to see the anger and division we have now. And for the record, I will say this: I may have voted for Trump, but not for the reasons people claim I did, and I am not what they claim I am just because I made that choice.
Sin though it may now be, I loved my country, and wanted to protect it, not just for my self, but for everyone, everyone’s freedom and everyone’s rights, weather I agreed with them, or not.
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