If we disagree, does that automatically make you my enemy? No. If we disagree, does that mean I need to label you as something anti-American? No. If we disagree, does that mean that I get to threaten to kill you, commit violence against your person, have you arrested? FUCK NO. But somehow, people have been doing those very things, apparently, from their perspective, in the best interests of our country. How is it in the best interests of America to stifle the very thing this country was founded on: Dissent???
We have the hate-mongers and the fear-mongers to thank for this. I don't need to name them; we all know who they are. Oh, they've waved their hands and disavowed any responsibility for the isolated violent incidents up to now, but what happens after the election, if things don't go their way, and they continue to egg the dissatisfied and unstable elements of society into using their so-called "second amendment remedies" (which, by the way, can hardly be interpreted as anything other than armed insurrection aka TREASON) and legitimately elected officials begin to be targeted in a more concrete way? Assassination and murder are not - and should not! - be part of our political process. If that happens, we become no better than some of the countries whose governments we collectively deplore, ruled not by law, but by violence.
I'm voting my conscience tomorrow. I'm voting to take our country FORWARD - and hopefully into a better future for all of us. Will it be easy? No. It will take all of us, both sides, working together. We can do it, we can turn our differences into strengths.
Or, we can let our differences continue to divide us until our country is torn apart. Is this to be the end of our nation - or the beginning of a more cohesive whole?
Think about it.
VOTE.
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