We have mostly always been a divided country. In the past the divide was over different issues. Slavery, wealth, civil rights, wars, foreign made products, and other things over the years divided the country and our families. In that respect the divide we are all aware of today is not that unusual for our country with one exception. This divide was brought on purposely by one man and his party in order for him to assume a greater power than he is entitled to have.
I can hear my family and friends on the other side of the political aisle already screaming, "TDS, TDS!" And that gets to the crux of the issue that the other side just doesn't understand. I can only speak for myself but I don't have TDS. In fact for me he is a completely irrelevant portion of my frustration and anger.
Do I hate him? Absolutely. With a passionate hate I hold for nothing else on earth. I hated him before he got into politics and I still hate him today but it has nothing to do with his running for office. It has to do with his failure as a human being.
Now, the reason that I, and I would say many of those on my side of the aisle, are upset with the voters and especially our family and friends that voted for this coming mess is that we can't understand how you could be so smart about so many things and be so easily duped by this party and their grievances.
Recently some members in my family and friends world have told me that they want nothing to do with me going forward. They feel that my constant depiction of the GOP and their voters as racist, fascist, misogynistic, and stupid is insulting to them. They hate me for pointing this out constantly and say it hurts their feelings. They say family/friends should not treat each other like that.
I say the opposite. It is the duty of family and friends to point out to those we love the error of their way. If they don't see that they are doing and saying stupid things then how can they improve unless someone who loves them tells them they are being stupid?
Here is where they fail as family and friends once again.
They now hate me for telling them the truth while I don't hate them and am not interested in cutting them off from my life. Yet they want nothing to do with me because I dare to point out the folly of their ways. This is their decision, not mine, to cut off all ties. Does that make me the better person. Yes it does.
I can be a grown up and disagree with the choices others make and still be friends and family. They can't. It has to be their way or no way to be in their lives. The very thing they find so offensive about the other side, which is not our preferred option, is exactly how they treat those in their world. The fact that they can't see the irony in this is another frustration point with many of us.
I know it is hard for many to have those close to us walk away over politics. Of all the reasons to walk away it might be the dumbest because it isn't going to change a thing in the world by walking away. We will still have a country divided over this and now one side has gotten what they were hoping for. A country fighting against each other and taking their eye off what is going on so that they can turn this country into an authoritarian state that they have been dreaming about for fifty years.
The fact that so many of you can't see what they are doing is the ultimate part of our frustration. It isn't like they are even trying to hide it anymore, they are telling you exactly what they are going to do and yet you think they are here to make your life better. The truth is they hate you more than anything on earth and think you are the stupidest people of all time and the dear leader himself keeps saying it out loud.
So, for those who might still be reading this blog in my circle of family and friends that have walked away from me I will repeat what I have been telling you for ten years. I think you are an idiot for trusting the GOP and the felon in charge but it doesn't change the fact that I still love you and care about you and I will continue to remind you that you are misguided and have impaired judgement right now.
Leave the cult. Get deprogrammed. Then rejoin the rest of us here on earth one.
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