Sometimes the best thing you can do is to remain silent and offer people the opportunity to justify their choices instead of screaming over them for what is at times blatant to see and at others are hidden in the details. There are moments why someone might change their choice of small things as well as big ones. People have their reasons even if their reason was, "I didn't care about that."
I for one have a sense of duty that most people would consider almost militant but in truth, I have an issue with harming others. I learn this while starting out in University as I wanted to follow the footsteps of counter-terror character that Nick Cage played in The Rock. I had a fascination with all of it, even if it had a lot of Hollywood polish. I wanted to work for the CDC and perhaps WHO in preventing pandemics from ravaging our world. I wanted to disarm bio-chemical weapons and prevent the use of disease as any sort of weapon against humanity. I was young, mind you yet I wanted to use science to defend what I cherished and maybe if lucky jump out of the way of an explosion all action hero like.
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ha ha.....yet, I had to answer some serious questions that usually do not get answered until face with them such as, if need be could I take the life of another human being. Could I continue to work among death and misery? Couquarantinenteen the area under threat of death in order for the greater good and to protect the lives of others from said disease? This is where I realized I could not. Even while working to help others learn combative to prevent rape and harm to themselves and their loved ones, I had to not only ask them those hard questions, but answer my own. I had to see if I had what was within me to allow or commit lethal harm on to another person even if they threatened me with it. I realized that I could not. I could not take a person's gun that was just recently aimed at me with threat of lethal harm and shoot them with it. Even to wound. The human body is a delicate structure and even the harmless actions we assume could lead to drastic injuries that would lead to death. I could not do that.
I realized that I could disarm them, remove the clip, pop out the remaining bullet in the chamber and convert it into a hammer where I could inflict nonlethal, yet painful damage towards the person, yet this amounts to more work on my part with a great chance that I might fail and it still cost my life. It's more work to be a pacifist. It's more work to subdue and submit someone without harming them. It may just be an extra step, or even simply not cutting to the bone and shooting them in the head, but it's work all together. It's effort to show greater compassion and prevent someone's harm even if they have already committed to your harm or even to theirs.
Yet, I chose that. And I can sleep well at night.
People make lesser choices that affect others and yet.....well perhaps it's because they don't know anyone that it affects or even care to? If you buy Apple they will treat their workers who they lease out work to who build their products with less than fair treatment of anyone here in the US. We're not even speaking about a living wage. Just treatment that is humane. A pasta CEO speaks out says queers are icky and don't eat my pasta you icky queers because that's for families, not for you icky queers. A southern chicken sandwich chain says the same thing with a chacki store for people who make things and they say, "ewww......icky queers" as they use their own money to affect the well-being of others just blanketed as "icky queers" via lobbying and election financing. Some people hear this and say, "YEP" and even go the extra step in supporting them. Others say, "OH HELL, NAH" and they boycott, educate and make bad media for them.
But there are people who just go about with no opinion and the comfort of not being the target. They need something and they will get it by whoever offers it even if it promotes something that most consider harmful to others. They made a choice. It's a silent one, but a choice none the less. They are not bothered and choose to side financially with the ones who want to limit the liberty of others. I mean, they have a life to live. They have to make ends meet. They need their "ewwww...queers" pasta to feed their family and go on with the day. They can't be bothered, they have little league or other pressing engagements. Their choice is simply to not consider it. They choose to blatantly remain ignorant or to simply state with their actions it's not important to them.
And yet, this election was much simpler yet it was at the same time life changing. They choose Trump for their issues. Don't believe? I'll share an excerpt from a friend questioning their acquaintance with their choice to vote for them.
I don't mind sharing why I supported Trump, I just don't want to argue about it. I think Obamacare is hurting the average American instead of helping. I also think it is ruining the health insurance industry. I do not like our current foreign policy and I think it is causing a great deal of instability in the world. I think there is too much corruption on both sides in Washington and I thought it was very important to send an anti-establishment message to Washington. Our economy is struggling and Trump in my opinion is a better candidate to fix it. This article by Elizabeth Warren is really good to help understand.
At which they post an article that they believe supports their justification. Mind you this would perhaps cause one to reflect and even take in the account to realize that this is a very good opinion if you blatantly ignore that the candidate, the now new President Elect, ran on a platform for xenophobia, racism, antisemitism, and blatant misogyny while aligning himself to numerous elements that previously would have caused any other candidate to bow out any election. Not only that, but he did not offer any plan to change the situation that her complaint comes from outside of repeal the Affordable Health Care Act, deport illegals and anyone associated to the illegals, and prevent a religious group from entering the nation legally and to improve the tracking of those who are here legally in order to prevent any act of terrorism. All the while, slut shaming people, going on tirades on social media at the early hours of the day, promoting violence at his rallies and a call to that Old Time that Clint Eastwood missed. He threatened to imprison his political rival, commit blatant war crimes and insult women who dared to even question his stance as a form of employment.
He offered no financial plan. No replacement to healthcare or how he would return labor jobs that sadly are in the twilight of their use. He had made opinions, changed his mind numerous times as the wind blows, insulted all those who he considered lesser in the primary race and even called to question their importance. He has no experience in military, politics, even a historical background. His predecessor was a constitutional professor of law and has held office as a senator. His political rival was not only a lawyer, but she has held political positions from senator to Secretary of State and yet, she's not in any way equivalent.
It honestly makes me question on what people are willing to tolerate. Sure he's racist and his policies will limit the freedoms of people of color, women, non-cis gendered, people who believe differently than a tolerable form of Christianity, or any variation of these and many more variants, but boy is he going to improve our economy by removing what the previous president has done. There was no need for the policies he had implemented outside of just wanting to increase debt, but it's going away. This man is fiscal and a businessman despite how he has no plan to pay for mass deportation and constructing a physical wall. He successful just like he said and anything that may show different is wrong. They investigated his political rival over hidden emails, any failure to save the lives of people in the embassy or if she had any tangible form of evidence to discredit her. He has been shown to change policy, have conflict over any national policy and his financial benefit, and have taken part in several lawsuits and investigations in which he had cheated several people from their livelihood or savings.
It's fine to say that Hillary is criminal and yet without tangible, evidence one has to question your motives and procedures. To assume that Tump is intangible in the face of surmounting evidence that this man on many levels is not trustworthy due to his associations, behavior towards anyone not in his chosen demographic, past actions, present actions, inciting and condoning violence on his part and his endorsement of people who are white supremacists.
But he will be good for America and our economy. Hitler promised every woman will have a husband. Mussolini made sure the trains ran on time. Trump will improve the economy, bring back the jobs that had left, and will make everything better. How exactly? 5 point plan? Ross Perot bought tv time to present his third part run. Trump? DO we actually know?
It's going to be huge? We are all going to tire of winning? All? Well, those not targeted of course.
I've heard people say that the Democratic party had abandoned the poor white for the benefit of Transpeople. We're all politically correct and "mansplaning" just alienated poor white men. Millennials are just too soft and need their safe spaces. Racism was ended years ago when Obama was voted so we're cool. Black lives and even Luke Cage just annoyed these people who voted Trump. So they shoot criminals. So what? In truth, it's your fault. Mine. Anyone who just won't give it a chance.
Just give it a chance....it may cost you, but give it a chance. He might just make things better. He might just improve everything, you just have to believe. I mean, at best you have nothing to worry about. It's going to be great much like collecting inedible ingredients in order to make an amazing meal for all to partake. You might be wrong. Don't simply judge the parts and the connotations made blatantly. We might just be surprised. We may simply be amazed....just believe, I mean you have nothing to lose.
Unless you do. And you are terrified. If only because a large amount of people simply declared that they don't really care about your safety if it will fuel the economy and improve their livelihood.
I make the joke now of allowing this element to "America" since they assume that we are doing it wrong. Obama has been in error and Trump will fix it all. People are nervous at his lack of experience or even going through the proper paces to simply make the change of administration easier. There are whispers of infighting. There are shady people allowed positions of power that the majority of people can see that this is not a good thing. But no, trust in the change and simply don't argue.
Just don't.
Fine. I've been here. I'm used to being a target and pulling others together to survive the worst of situations. Perhaps one day we'd only laugh at our worries. Maybe I will cheer the work of Trump and how great he was. Maybe it will unite the nation. Other side of the coin, maybe we'll have to fight in the streets. Perhaps we'll have to take arms and live in bunkers and worry when Trump will take our guns and everything is a false flag.
Either way, it's going to be the most glorious of dumpster fires.
I hope I eat my words. I honestly hope we are over reacting if only to not argue.
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