I will be so glad when this election is over. Only three more weeks of listening and seeing all the garbage. The thing about email and social media is it is so faceless. I have learned so much about my friends that I am just floored. It seems we forget there are real people reading and listening and watching. Being behind a computer screen gives us the right to say whatever we want without consequences. I'm sure a lot of what I have seen would never be said in person.
I stop listening to anyone who starts out calling the other side a derogatory name.....sheeple, killary, libtard. I'm mean come on. Do you honestly think that is the way to get your point of view across? Obviously I am a liberal democrat. Because my opinion is different than yours does not make me stupid or a following sheep. It means I have a different set of values, life experiences and priorities. And that does not make me wrong. Just as your values, life experiences and priorities do not make you wrong. It just means we have a difference of opinion. I wouldn't have it any other way. Life would be boring if we all thought the same. But no one is changing anyone else opinion by the jokes and words being used online. A lot of it isn't even true and it is just rude and shows some facets of personality that would have been better left unseen. Both sides......when you use some of the banter thrown around, you are talking about your family, your friends, your kids. Would you really say that to them? It is not all right to spread the hate.
We need both sides in our government for the checks and balances. I am a firm believer of those. Because without them then we have the absolute power corrupting thing going on.
For the next three weeks I think I will pass over all those memes and emails and names and rudeness because they aren't helpful at all. And maybe when the election is over we can get back to being people who work together. Maybe. Maybe not.
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