Worth Posting

Update: So when I read this post 24 hours after I wrote it, I decided I should have titled this “My Bleeding Heart, Anti-hate, Tempter Tantrum”. Not that the points I make are any less valid (because I’m quite proud of my bleeding heart). But sometimes you just have to yell it out right?

*Cleansing breath* and hoping for positivity.

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This is one of those posts where I’m not sure if I want to hit the publish button. And I’m not even two sentences in. But I know. The words are up in my head daring to jump out onto this post.

I know I haven’t shared my opinions on anything specifically political recently. Why?

… searching for an answer…

Things are tough out there. Nothing is easy. Which isn’t what discourages me so much. It’s how horrible people have become as a result. And when I get so discouraged and so sad about it, I quiet down. Not so constructive, huh?

Yeah. I know.

But as of this moment right now, recently set off by someone’s comments in passing, I’ve kind of had it.

So I’m just going to say it.

Stop. Stop hating our President because he isn’t what you’re used to. I don’t care how mad you are a democrat was elected. I don’t care what you want to believe. He is American. He is Christian. His middle name is also Hussein. And he’s bi-racial. Stop stop stop letting that freak you out so frigging much.

Stop deciding a person of another faith is less American. Stop hating differences. Stop deciding where someone can worship. Stop pigeon holing, stop assuming, stop blaming 9/11 on anyone with a head covering. Stop deciding that people who speak another language are second class citizens.

Stop buying the horse pucky being shoveled out to you thanks to all those Glenn Becky entertainers posing as legitimate news resources. They make it ok to fear otherness. They tell you information that is not true. They tell you this and you think its the nightly news. Its not. It warped and misinterpreted and worked to sound exciting and controversial so that you turn on that show. And they get paid a lot of money for promoting news-looking information that is simply wrong. Don’t be so easily swayed. (That goes for liberal news pundits too. I’m well aware.)

Don’t settle into your comfortable homes and hope that people just like you move in next door and if they don’t well then Obama wins and what a horrible President he is. Stop it.

Stop forgetting to think for yourself. Challenge yourself with different. Make yourself learn more. Read and listen and open your mind and heart to lots and lots of resources. Question everything. Come to your own conclusions.

Stop blaming. Stop promoting hateful language and feeling smug because some new party says its ok and then do nothing – NOTHING – to make anything better at all. Be constructive.

Be yourself. Don’t fall in line with what the majority thinks just because its easier to agree than disagree. Celebrate new and interesting differences.

I don’t know best but neither do you. Stop yelling at people to get off your lawn and start working together. Stop allowing fear and misinformation to divide and conquer.

Its not his fault, or hers, or theirs. It’s ours. It’s time to take some responsibility.

….so.

I’m running out of momentum now. I’m not even sure this is worth posting after all. I got it out of my system. But I have to wonder if it even matters anyway. If those who feel irked by what I write will just turn their noses, call me wrong and go back to what they were doing all along anyway. If they even read it at all. And those that agree will just agree.

So I remain discouraged. Reading unbelievable news headlines, trying to find something constructive somewhere and hoping hoping hoping this hate begins to abate somehow.

I still haven’t decided if I want to click publish. But I suppose you’ll know if decide to bother.