Listen! I’m sick of this shit! And I don’t apologize for nothing that I’m about to say! Curse words and all! This post will express not only what I’ve been itching to say out loud from the mountain top but it will be expressed exactly how I want it to come off. And I’m pissed at what I see going on around me day in and day out! Time out! This shit has to give!

🗣I CAN NOT WAIT UNTIL THIS DAMN ELECTION IS OVER!

I’m so sick of hearing this political rhetoric I don’t know what the fuck to do! SICK SICK SICK of it! We are literally tearing each other down over this shit! Bashing friends and co-workers and sometimes even talking bad to or about family member with differences of opinions. It all makes no damn sense to me!

If you are soooo Christian like and can’t read these curse words, there should be an “X” somewhere on your screen. Feel free to use it. Commercial break over…

Guess what. I’m a Christian too. I love Him with my soul. And guess what…I know many Christians that feel the same way I do and they are all shades of color and they are both Republicans and Democrats, they love their kids and will die for them, they work hard and do over and above things for their kids, they volunteer in their communities, they celebrate the holidays with their families, and they love a good friend/family get-together. They cry at the same things I cry for. They hurt for others just like I do.

Yet…during this election year, and when it comes to politics, we ALL tend to lose our motherfucking minds!!! We have this in common too. Sigh

Imagine this for a second…you have a co-worker that has become a real good friend. You all go to lunch together (pre-Covid of course), you celebrate each other’s families birthdays and kid achievements, you even attended their mother’s funeral. You have love for them. And they have love for you. Yet, this year you find out they vote “Democrat.” Does this change how you feel about them??? Why?

How about the teacher that made such a great impression on your life? That teacher is your mentor. Whenever you have questions about life, maybe don’t understand your parents, or what major to take in college…you called on them. Each time you pass the school when you come home, you drop in to speak to Mrs Hammons and to give her a hug. You even invited her to your wedding. And you send her Christmas cards of your new family. But one day, you notice Mrs Hammons has a Facebook page. You scroll through her timeline to be sure it’s her before you send her a friend request. Yep, it’s her as you smile at her blurry family pictures she posted that clearly shows how old she is because she holds the portrait in her hand as she snaps the photo to upload. But then the next post you see is of Mrs Hammons’ at a rally with a MAGA T-shirt on. Does this change what you know about her to be true? Are you offended now? Do you close Facebook without asking her to be your “friend” even though she is your mentor? Will you visit her next time you pass the school?

Let’s make one thing crystal clear. Someone’s voting preference does not “make” them this idea you’ve formed in your head no more than it makes you the descriptions or stereotypes people place on your voting preference. And you do know these stereotypes exist on both sides, right. Do you like being called a racist over your preference? Do you like being labeled “brainwashed”? Or poor or as being on welfare? Or disconnected? Close minded? Or a bigot?

No. You don’t!

Let’s admit it! We are all doing these same things to express how we want our favorite “team” to win! That’s it! That’s all it is! We have a favorite team. A team that most (not all) but MOST of us gained as our favorite team from our family. Let’s just be real.

You are a Dallas cowboy fan because your dad was a Cowboys fan. Your granddaddy was a Cowboys fan. So of course, you have to be a Cowboys fan too.

So using that analogy, MOST of us, our favorite team was chosen for us. MOST of us don’t even know all of the players on the teams (I.e. policies). We don’t know the coaches of the past, nor how they greatly influenced the dynamics of the team. MOST of us are not familiar with the plays nor the stats of all of the plays or half of the players. MOST of us just focus on our 1 or 2 favorite players and their stats (I.e. abortions, guns, racism, taxes, healthcare, etc).

If we are really honest with ourselves, we believe in things on BOTH sides of the coin (I.e. like players on the opposing team). But since we have a favorite team, society deems that we pick a side and stick to it…for life. If you change and start liking the New England Patriots, they say you jumped on the bandwagon. How dare you have a change in opinions! How dare you go over to that side!

I will never forget reading a comment by a white guy on Facebook that said “Just like those stupid Demo-Rats!” His comment disturbed me. The video was discussing the results of the pandemic. I didn’t understand what the hell Covid had to do with voting preferences. I was curious as to how he looked for some reason. So I went to his page. His profile picture was a poster that stated “I love God. I love my guns!” In the back of my mind, I questioned how someone could love God and then call someone on open forum a Demo-Rat!

Well recently I thought about that post, that guy, and that profile picture as others made crazy statements during the VP nominees debate. One lady said “I just want to slap her face!” Someone else said about the current VP, “He is a racist liar!” For the life of me, I just don’t get this. Screaming mean and hateful remarks towards people we don’t even know. MOST of us don’t really know anything about these candidates. MOST don’t read about their policies nor about the things they are doing in the communities. Yet we judge them so harshly. And we judge one another based off of these people we don’t even know. Sigh

Well back to that God-gun loving man… I was reminded how I love God yet I still sin. I was reminded how we can love God and yet say crazy things at the same time. How we can curse. How I curse sometimes as you can see. I was reminded how I have a lot of love for people with different “political” views from me. I was reminded that I even trust my kids with families that think different. So how can I “unfriend” people I love?

How can I hate people off of something I’ve never discussed with them? We don’t sit around talking about policies. Hey “how do you feel about abortions?” Oh you believe in abortions? I can’t be your friend. Wait what…

We make friends with people who make friends with us. We make friends with people off of things we have in common!!!! From these commonalities, we grow into close-knit communities. We watch each other’s kids. We celebrate with them. And we mourn with them.

Can you imagine all of the missed opportunities to make a good friend because of our misguided political beliefs? Had you never seen that decal, T-shirt, social media post, etc…you could have a friend right next door.

Thanks for your attention.

Remember you are your own competition. Competition of 1.