Slowly over the past weeks, a recognition of a highly annoying, but I think true, concept has dawned on me. There are a great too many similarities between how people treat political issues and elections, and how they treat, cheer for, and participate in college football/basketball games.
I am going to keep this short, because honestly I have had enough politics for a life time (this coming from a Poly Sci minor,) but this election, and some political debates before hand ( cough cough Chik-Fil-A) have become so much an us vs them mentality that it absolutely drives me nuts. The number of people who are voting for this person or that person just because "all good people are Democrats and everyone else is a stupid head" or "all good people are Republicans and everyone else is a do do face" is just about enough to make us independents insane. Honestly all the Facebook posting about how evil and horrible this or that candidate or issue is have just about driven me up a wall.
The fact that we had to preface this with people telling me that I had to either eat a chicken sandwich or avoid eating a chicken sandwich at a specific restaurant or I was a horrible person have me just about ready to blow a gasket. You people line up sporting your red and blue like its BYU vs the Uof U and you just have to prove that your team is heaven sent that the other one is of the devil. The country is mapped out this way, it flashes on TV, in news papers. People count down on their facebook, to the moment either their team wins or our country suddenly spirals to hell and fails to exist.
well, since we are talking colors, our flag colors are red, white and blue. If we are all taking sides, and picking teams, I pick team white. I call for a truce. Cant we all just get along? Agree to disagree? have our opinions but be willing to objectively look at things from other peoples perspectives without automatically judging them as evil horrible villains? This is not a college football game folks, this is the running of our country, and if we don't bring it together, we ain't never gonna get nothing done.
Today is Guy Fawkes day in parts of the world. As I think of the historical aspects of that day remembered, the day before we vote for a lot of important things, I just want everyone to take a second and realize Its not worth getting all crazy and driving each other crazy. No need to go figuratively (or literally) blowing things up. Yes, these are important decisions we are making, but Rome was not built, nor did it fall in a day, neither will we.
No need to go all panic attack here lets take a moment, step back, and see if we can't catch a glimpse of a bigger picture, and maybe come together a bit more. Maybe we can see it less as an us vs them competition as more of an us vs us competition and try to find the middle ground where we can all be a little more happy and a little less at each others throats and in each others FaceBook about things?
OK wishful thinking, like me saying this would be a short post. All I am saying is, can we please treat this and future elections, issues, life and our country a little bit less like a college football game where the winners just rub it in the losers face and try to rub it in as much as possible? can we maybe see how we are all just people with different ideas but the same goal- to have a greater place to live and raise our families? I don't know that that's possible, but I will say, its my dream. probably wont happen, so I am going to go to sleep now. Go vote. Vote for what is best for you, for your family, for your country, whatever you determine that to be, and please quit telling me about it on Facebook. I've already voted. I don't care who wins tomorrow, I voted for what I though best, I hope you do the same. Que Sera Sera.
I am going to keep this short, because honestly I have had enough politics for a life time (this coming from a Poly Sci minor,) but this election, and some political debates before hand ( cough cough Chik-Fil-A) have become so much an us vs them mentality that it absolutely drives me nuts. The number of people who are voting for this person or that person just because "all good people are Democrats and everyone else is a stupid head" or "all good people are Republicans and everyone else is a do do face" is just about enough to make us independents insane. Honestly all the Facebook posting about how evil and horrible this or that candidate or issue is have just about driven me up a wall.
The fact that we had to preface this with people telling me that I had to either eat a chicken sandwich or avoid eating a chicken sandwich at a specific restaurant or I was a horrible person have me just about ready to blow a gasket. You people line up sporting your red and blue like its BYU vs the Uof U and you just have to prove that your team is heaven sent that the other one is of the devil. The country is mapped out this way, it flashes on TV, in news papers. People count down on their facebook, to the moment either their team wins or our country suddenly spirals to hell and fails to exist.
well, since we are talking colors, our flag colors are red, white and blue. If we are all taking sides, and picking teams, I pick team white. I call for a truce. Cant we all just get along? Agree to disagree? have our opinions but be willing to objectively look at things from other peoples perspectives without automatically judging them as evil horrible villains? This is not a college football game folks, this is the running of our country, and if we don't bring it together, we ain't never gonna get nothing done.
Today is Guy Fawkes day in parts of the world. As I think of the historical aspects of that day remembered, the day before we vote for a lot of important things, I just want everyone to take a second and realize Its not worth getting all crazy and driving each other crazy. No need to go figuratively (or literally) blowing things up. Yes, these are important decisions we are making, but Rome was not built, nor did it fall in a day, neither will we.
No need to go all panic attack here lets take a moment, step back, and see if we can't catch a glimpse of a bigger picture, and maybe come together a bit more. Maybe we can see it less as an us vs them competition as more of an us vs us competition and try to find the middle ground where we can all be a little more happy and a little less at each others throats and in each others FaceBook about things?
OK wishful thinking, like me saying this would be a short post. All I am saying is, can we please treat this and future elections, issues, life and our country a little bit less like a college football game where the winners just rub it in the losers face and try to rub it in as much as possible? can we maybe see how we are all just people with different ideas but the same goal- to have a greater place to live and raise our families? I don't know that that's possible, but I will say, its my dream. probably wont happen, so I am going to go to sleep now. Go vote. Vote for what is best for you, for your family, for your country, whatever you determine that to be, and please quit telling me about it on Facebook. I've already voted. I don't care who wins tomorrow, I voted for what I though best, I hope you do the same. Que Sera Sera.
Love this! Well said!!
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