I read a lot of opinion pieces. I love blogs and editorials. I believe in our freedom of speech, BIG TIME. The written word turns me on and off and around and inside out. I love to hear what goes through other peoples’ minds. I love to hear how other's deal with life. Everyday life, thoughts, sentences, opinions and just words in relation to our big spinning world, really intrigue me.
We all have opinions and beliefs that drive us. I am Pro Choice. I am a woman. To me, all skin colors and cultures are beautiful. I wholeheartedly believe that your pursuit of happiness means that you get to marry whomever you choose.
As a parent, I have tried to teach my children the value of hard work, taking responsibility for their actions and the importance of treating people kindly, compassionately and fairly.
As a woman, I have hopefully taught my daughter how much her voice matters. I hope I have equally relayed to my son, how important women are. I have always wanted to paint a fair, accurate and loving picture to my kids. I feel that I have, and I will continue to do so.
What I can not do is allow the country I love to hemorrhage. Just as if it were a parent that I love and want to protect in a very primal way, as I watch the lifeblood gush out of it, I will grab the first cloth (yes, even an unsanitary one) to stop the bleeding.
It’s not about race, sex, special needs, gay marriage, abortions or anything else.
It’s about the bleeding. Bleeding that will eventually drain the life out of the country that I call mine and love to the core. Without the fiscal soundness of this institution that we call ‘home’, who you marry, what’s between your legs, and what choices you make are going to suffer greatly at the wheel of what I will choose to call ‘crippling debt and weakness’. Have you ever experienced that? It is a killer. A killer of love, marriage, childhood, and compassion (to name just a few).
If you think anything else about me because of the way that I choose to vote for our President, than you are making inappropriate excuses. Those that want to justify their own vote by calling me a bigot, a racist, a woman hater…than you don’t know me. And you have no right judging and assuming who I or WE are. It surprises me (I guess) that some extremists (and some, not so extreme) have resorted to name calling and hurling awful accusations, based on a presidential vote. How sad.
Really, really sad.
And please don’t tell me to ‘vote my conscience’. Blech. Really? If that were the case, I’d skip the voting booth and get drunk. Stinking drunk.
Those that choose to use hateful words to describe those that cast an opposing vote, are contradicting everything that this country was founded on. We are lucky and blessed to be citizens of a country that was founded on democracy.
Just in case anyone has forgotten, the definition of democracy is: “a form of government in which all eligible citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives.”
(Side note: I need a form of ID to cash my check at freaking Market Basket. Why shouldn’t I need to present one when I vote for our President?) I love digression.
When the results of today’s election are shared with all of us, INCESSANTLY, we must accept what we paid for, what we bought into, what we have earned. And live with it, with dignity and grace and class.
No matter how it goes today, whomever our President is for the next 4 years, if you don’t feel the need to support our democratic process, than perhaps you should go to a place where a democracy does not exist. Live in democraticlessness (not a word – made it up). I bet you miss us.
So, may God bless, you, me, our children, our military, our people and…for sure, God bless the President of the United States of America
Well said, friend. Everyone has their own hot buttons that they tend to use in candidate selection and the voting process. All of those choices are personal. Most people wouldn't attack another for their choice in fashion, or religion, or many other things, but somehow people feel supremely justified in hatefully spewing their opposition in politics. It's the lack of respect for someone else's opinion that really irritates me the most. Agree to disagree is my motto.
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