We are all being played. I have my own opinion on Clinton, Trump, the election, the electoral college and more. But there is a destructive force that knows no political boundaries, and desires destruction, violence and intolerance. There are clearly interests that love and thrive on hate-and do not care from which piece of real estate on the political spectrum it comes from or goes to. I have my own strong opinions on the protests. However, if you take the entire number of all of those involved, and divide it in to our population, the percentage would be a dot followed by so many zeros it would take all of your lunch hour to read them. People are being paid and bussed in to foment this provocative apparent meltdown. Trigger words like racism are firestarters. Are many protesting out of what they see as a legitimate concern? Yes-the protesters in Boise certainly were. Totally peaceful, lawful and an exercise of their first amendment rights.
I recently saw a post that showed a video of a girl getting hit by a car on the freeway because a bunch of idiotic kids tried to shut down a freeway, at night, with only phones or flashlights. Was it stupid, irresponsible, and show a selfish absolute lack of consideration for others who are trying to get to a hospital, get to there kids, or get to work as all of these childish acts do? Absolutely! Do I revel in the fact that I saw a young kid just get hit by a car??? Apparently some people do. All of the comments were “serves her right” “If she’s that stupid” and so on. All I could feel was wanting to I now if she was OK. I have a daughter who I love more than can be described. We disagree on some things about the election. While she is not a protester, these kids all have parents. They have grandparents or great grandparents who were Americans during WWII. Even if they were communists-can anyone feel good about someone’s kid getting caught up in all of this purposeful manipulation and getting wounded or killed? What if it was your granddaughter or child? What if it was her brother who voted for Trump?
Conversely, how can people on the other side possibly take solace in seeing protesters in Portland destroying a community and businesses that largely supported Hillary??? How can anyone feel good about a person being dragged from their car and being mercilessly beaten because they voted for Trump?
The truth is we don’t feel good about this on either side. We are being played. Our emotions are being manipulated. Exaggerated caricatures of those that we disagree with are being shoved in our faces by those who only want your destruction, the destruction of this country and most importantly the destruction of the American family. Is it a leap? No it is not. The dissolution of the family unit in this country is the cause of the breakdown of our society. Since the 50’s and 60’s, as the family has dissolved and marginalized, every single variable that gauges the state of our humanity has skyrocketed in the negative. Child abuse, drug and alcohol addiction, divorce, porn, child porn, murder, sexual assault, pedophilia, violence, crime, intolerance, hatred, depression and the list goes on. This may seem a bit extreme speaking to this election fallout, but it is not. So you have to ask yourself, who stands to benefit from all of this? Usually statements like these are almost apologetically preceded by things like “I don’t mean to get all religious on you, but” or “I don’t mean to preach.” Well I fully intend to get get all religious on you. The person that is gaining so much from all of this is not registered as a Republican, Democrat, Independent, Libertarian, Green Party, Democratic socialist and the like-he is registered as all of them. Good and evil did not “evolve”. We are being played.
Those of us that voted for either Hillary or Trump are being goaded in to believing that those we disagree with are the extremes that are shoved in our faces. This is how the family has been under attack for so long and we are blind to it. When people are high fiving it over a kid getting hit by a car, or endangering the public’s safety and well-being by shutting down freeways with utter disregard for the danger they are putting people in, the rest of us had better learn to draw a damn line, take a deep breathe and refuse to believe at face value what the media is dishing out to us. Educate yourselves, learn, thoroughly seek out the opposite of what you accept to make sure your position is an informed one. Take a break from the sensationalism. Try to take a look at all of the social trends over the last several decades and try to see if you can spot a pattern. Take a second look at a time that is derided as a sterile, conformist, unenlightened time where being a homemaker is somehow minimized, poked fun at, and equated to some kind of unjust servitude, then compare that time to today. Reject the notion that has been brainwashed in to us that those were times when evil Republican fathers beat their wives who were afraid to get a divorce stifled their kids’ freedom and creativity and forced an angry god on them. Maybe ask people who grew up in those times how repressed they felt. Maybe ask me how it felt growing up in a stable loving Christian home-It was a lot better than my self destructive “liberation” that followed. Better smartphones don’t make stronger families.
I personally believe our days are numbered and we had better learn to obey the commandment to love our neighbors as ourselves. It doesn’t mean you have to love their opinions or how they voted, I know I certainly don’t love or embrace all of them, -there is a lot that makes me angry and I have strong opinions on but I recognize myself being played as much as anyone.
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