Originally written Nov. 10, 2016
Those of you who know me, probably know I am an Election nerd. I began watching the coverage as soon as the first of the East Coast polls closed. Then watched all the way though to Donald Trump’s speech. During a one hour meeting, I monitored the returns during that time as well. Once I got home, I had three webpages open on my computer. And my TV was streaming my favorite show who was covering the election returns. So, I was a little plugged into what happened on Tuesday night. Because of this, I spend way too long laying in bed thinking about how it happened, what is next, who does he pick, what does he need to do.
Election day, plus one
As I got up and started with my Wednesday, my thoughts were, how are people on each side responding. So, when I opened my Facebook, I got my answer. As you would expect, there were those who were happy and cheering for the new direction. There were also others who were angry, upset and even spewing hate. Most of these folks, I have no idea who they are, some are friends, and some are even family. One post I started to reply to was angry and posed the question, why were so many people voting for a bigot and misogynist. So, I began my answer, only to realize my answer needed a longer form, and a larger audience. So, here it is.
This was not about anything Trump did to win this election. This election was about one thing, and I believe only one thing. God and the Supreme Court. ABC said that the Evangelical Christians came out and voted in record numbers. They voted to keep a conservative SCOTUS which meant going against personal beliefs of one individual in order to insure a conservative court. They knew that if HRC were to win, that SCOTUS would turn so liberal that Religious Rights, would end, the Right to Defend yourself would end, and many other freedoms would be attacked for years to come.
Why Hillary?
So, to look at this result and say that we are a lost people because we elected a dirt bag of a man, is just missing the larger picture here. I do not want to get into another political argument, the decision has been made. First, I want to say thank you to all of you for voting. This year only about 1/3 for the people in this country did. Second, I would like to turn the question around back to those who voted for Hillary.
Why did you decided to vote for Hillary, a woman who not only promotes the work of Margret Sanger, but praises her and calls her an inspiration, as well as received the Margret Sanger Award. This is a woman who promoted the extermination of black babies. She also started Planned Parenthood, an organization who’s primary service is the dismemberment of live babies. I understand the argument, that woman should be able to choose what she does with her body, but is that baby really her body, or is it someone else body? That seems rather close to making it legal for me to say what can be done to you. But that’s a whole topic in it’s self.
What difference does it make?
She openly lied about a YouTube video claiming it was the reason for the Benghazi attack, and then never sent help to defend American Service men and women, and then lies to the face of the parents of those who were killed in those attacks. Not to mention all of the other scandals and lost emails while working as an employee of the United States of America, and you. Most all the negative things that can be said about Trump, can also be said about HRC. So, neither one of them are really all that good as individual people.
It’s YOUR choice
Each and everyone of us had to decide, and will again in the future, what are our values, and how do we get the closest results to those values? This is what the people wanted. To insure that the SCOTUS would have the best chance of retaining Religious Freedoms, and other freedoms, that the Progressives have been attacking and chipping away at for the last 100 years. And this time, they won. The way they had to do it, was by sucking it up, holding their noses. Then picking a man that wasn’t the model citizen they would have hoped for, but would give the best chance for a favorable outcome.
I totally agree with the fact that Trump is not the most appealing of candidates. That is why I just could not put my name on his line. I voted my conscience and prayed, and left it in God’s hands and we all now see the results. I now pray for our new leaders that God will continue to guide them, and help them correct the course our great country has been on. And that they will be able to repair decades long issues that have put us here. (this would be Obama, Bush 43, Clinton, and Bush 41)
So your vote didn’t win
If you didn’t like this years results, remember, when your vote was for the winner, others were in your position today. That’s the way politics go, sometimes you win, then later, someone else wins. That is how we balance ourselves. So, we should all agree to be humble winners, and gracious losers, because in our lifetimes, we all will find ourselves on both sides at different times. And if we are always fighting, how on earth will we ever come together and find a middle we both can live with. Despite, how the election came out verses how you voted, we will all keep living tomorrow.
That was Tuesday, so what now? Now we need to come together to be the country we want. And here is why this country IS great. We can discuss, disagree and still love each other and get along with each other. That is also one thing I completely and totally disagree with Trump. America has ALWAYS been great. We may not have always lived up to our greatness, but let’s decided to all come together and live out our greatness once again.
Are you with me?
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