I’m not here to get political.
I’m not telling anyone who I voted for and I’m not assigning blame to a specific person or group of people.
I am here to tell you we don’t have to live like this. I am also here to tell you that it’s okay to have different beliefs than someone else. It’s okay to peacefully and respectfully discuss your choices freely.
Come on here and tell me that you were in DC earlier this week, and everything was all unicorns and rainbows, and the media is feeding us all nonsense. That’s fine. I’ve seen the posts on social media.
But you can’t tell me that there weren’t any acts of violence, childish tantrums, destruction of property (that you helped pay for, btw), and overall immaturity because there was. Or… I guess maybe the media staged that like they did with the moon landing?
Here’s the thing – we are supposed to question things.
That’s a natural part of life. But where’s the line? Is there even one? How does it go from “I don’t think this is accurate? Let’s look into the process and see what’s going on” to “Let’s go storm the Capitol and destroy it because I didn’t get my way”?
Why on earth do I have to let my child grow up in a world like this?
Who else has to die because you don’t agree with something? What were the words out of your mouth four years ago? Were you condemning this very action? Are you hiding now, not saying anything? Is this something we should expect for every election cycle?
Will violence really get you the results you want? And how did you come to that reasoning? What went so wrong in your life to make you think that violence and destruction will get you what you want?
Show your child they can change the world without physical destruction.
Set the example.
Did you know you can turn off the news? Log out of social media? Not even get on any type of electronic device at all? I’m not telling you to ignore everything and pretend nothing is happening.
Something is clearly happening, and you can say that without assigning responsibility to any organization. We can either keep going down the hole of death and destruction, or we can work together to build the ladder to get out of the pit of misery and come together to make this country a better and safer place.
Maybe my words will fall onto deaf ears. That’s okay. Go hug your child.
Go do something that will actually make their life better. I can tell you the violence and talking down on whatever you dislike with a passion is not something that will make your child a better person. Disagreement can be expressed without anger and violence.