Wild Thoughts on Election Day #MyVote2016

Oh, there’s been equal emotion before, some just weren’t there to witness it then. No one’s dragging people out of homes, cutting off heads of tearing children from mother’s arms, or throwing people withlifestyles different from their own off roofs. The sun is coming up.
This country’s population has always been rather hot headed, impulsive, and vocal – it’s just social media and instand news provides such a stage – and drama queen behavior is so prevalent. (I blame the lack of stage productions with everyone having a role in elementary school and middle schools HA HA…and Halloween is all about organized parties rather than the free form it used to be. Some sociologists say people need an event/night/way to put on mask (pulling off everyday ones) and let loose in order to keep a balance the rest of the year)
I’ve stayed off blogs, screens, to avoid the hate and gloating. Neither is helpful or porductive. All it does is display intolerance and maybe a lack of understanding of government forms/processes. Society has tolerated coarse rude language and destructive in public for so long, why are we surprised – the kids have grown up seeing adults having temper tantrums and reacting violently.
Eventually it will get cold, people will get bored, and the agitators will have fewer listening to them. But the remaining ones could become more dangerous as “hard core” pride sets in – just like many times before – like the 60’s. Actually came in contact with some of those long ago – but when asked exactly what they were going to replace this “oppressive governement”with…well, pretty vague answers, but the real outcome was the ones giving the marching orders were planning to take the reins and be on top…a la “Meet the new boss, just like the old boss..” song’s phrase.
A review of the word “tolerance” is needed. Maybe write out the definition 10 times by hand?
And a realization that the most effective way to change a system is to get inside and work from there. What I said then, and still. Yelling and whining is counterproductive. Be the solution.
And let’s hope some compassionate solution is found for the world’s vast migration going on now. I don’t want to see one more infant found in alone in barren S. TX with a relative’s phone number on the poor thing’s onesie. Or images of coyotes feasting on a body of one who got across the river, but then got lost – or abandoned by their transporter. Or another shell shocked young girls being lead out of a shack by authorties where she had been held against her will until relatives could pay even more money as ransome before her release – if she was lucky and not forced into prostitution and moved all around the country. I live hours from the border. Constant news stories of drivers notifying police that there’s an 18 wheeler ahead of them and there’s a hand desperately waving – shoved out of a crack. And it’s 100 degrees with desperate people stuffed like potatoes without ventilation. Sometimes the police arrive too late. This had gotten too dangerous and brutal. There has to be a better way. We need to stop messing with places far away and help our neighbors.
So now I sound like a really old person. So I blog about recycling diapers into a stinking wall or road to nowhere. About as absurd as these crowds in the streets.
Really hope people wake up and stop destroying and start with solutions instead…there’s plenty to be done locally – in every community – and an idividual has a much better chance of making the world better by digging in small scale rather than “perfoming” (and they can “tell their children about it! They were there!” Heard that before…) for the cameras rioting and destroying in the streets hoping to make big scale (rather impossible) national change. This country does have a unique process – and 4 years isn’t that long. Meanwhile, work small solutions instead of creating more problems?
Sigh. Sorry about the long ramble, Susie, but, yes, discouraging

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