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What I Want Shouldn’t Interfere with What You Want
What you truly want won’t interfere with what others want.
One of the most divisive institutions in the United States is politics. Both sides will argue until they’re utterly breathless that they are the only ones who can help you.
People get thoroughly caught up in which side they stand on. That’s all well and good — because no two people are alike. However, this becomes problematic when the politics go beyond slight variations in the how of operating a country and move into morality.
Not too put too fine a point on it — but morality is an individual construct. My moral compass is not yours. But there is a universal truism in all of it.
Nothing should cause anyone else harm.
The problem we have reached is that the one side (R) argues frequently that the other side (D) will take away your livelihood, your freedom, and all the things that make you, you. The truth is that they tend to be the side that takes these things away in the name of morality, righteousness, and a whole lot of false equivalencies.
When you allow white supremacists, racists, bigots, anti-choice zealots, and the like to openly be a major part of your base — you are showing your true colors. Groups that spout hate, division…
