The Road Ahead

I really and honestly thought Romney was going to win. I just had a gut feeling. The focus of the good things that the Obama administration had done had seemed clouded and forgotten over the last two years. But the people spoke and they spoke just a little bit louder. 

So Obama won last night. Was he "my guy?" Absolutely not. But I felt he was the lesser of two evils. Obama has done some great things, but also done some pretty fucked up things. Drones and the seach and seizure law being chief among them. But for me, Romney just was a flip flopper and there were many other things that scared me about him and his campaign. I won't go into them here, because the debate is over. But as I watched the numbers come in, I realized how divided we really are. So, I was half right.

On my mind chiefly was how much disrespect there was for Obama. Mostly what I feel is thinly veiled racism. It happened almost weekly. I'd see posts about him being a muslum, or evil cause his middle name is Hussian, or he's the anti-Christ. Remember during one of his state of the union addresses, someone called out "LIAR!" You remember that? Or when the Health Care reform passed and people called out "Baby killer!" What other president in history has been disrespected so much?!?! Things were just too hostile, and it seemed each party was trying to stop the other just because they were the "other guys." Just because. Its the way things are done nowadays I guess. Party politics make the way instead of what is right, morally to do.

The president made a strong, passionate speech last night after claiming victory. And it was his loudest and strongest speech I've heard the man give. But now it will be interesting to see if he backs it up.

What I was REALLY excited about last night are the states who legalized gay marriage (Ain't it great that one day we'll be able to call it marriage?). And the states who legalized marijuana. (Listen, I'm not a smoker, but you cannot deny the healing effects that the plant has. no chemical additives, it just grows. Whereas addictive pills pumped full of different synthetics are made daily, do major damage to you and are totally legal. Just sayin.) So I am shown the possibility that the tide is turning. The new generation is stepping up and we are indeed evolving ideas. Holy crap. We're not as bad as I thought!

But still there's tons of work to be done. For Gay Marriage and making racism die off. And don't tell me it isn't still around. Just the other day, I Was sent a message from a family member. It was a forward of a photo-shopped Michelle Obama with her tits hanging out saying "We're desperate for a win! Look at these and vote for us so my husband doesn't become another unemployed n---er!" Yeah. I was shocked. I yelled at the person who sent it to me. I don't want to see that. I don't want to live in a world that can even conceive of that. So to conquor these things, these moral fights, it starts within us. Listen to the issues. Read the facts. Try to understand and try to listen and learn. Evolve. Grow. Be better people. Then we can get rid of the big stuff like drones, searches, fear, etc. Things that this administration still needs to work on. But hey, no one is perfect. This is the best we can do folks. (For now... for now) But last night watching the events in Maryland, Maine and Washington, I was amazed that perhaps we are further along than I thought. I Wanna wake up in a world where people don't fight this shit anymore.

So we're divided. But we don't have to fight about it. Like any good marriage, we can compromise. We can learn and grow. But it begins with us listening. Please, please, listen. Try. Forget the loud mouths and their B.S. Just try to make a better world. For all.

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