DAY SIX - Tuesday, 6 November 2012
(I want to make sure this is posted before the last polls close for fear that some folks out there might perceive a results-bias in my comment this evening. So please note, those who judge, that there are still almost four hours before the last polls close in Alaska. Close is still where this race is at. With that being said...)
I am so glad there there are people in my life (and in the lives of my children) who, regardless of political slant or religious tenets, refuse to spread hate and hurt and instead spread tolerance and acceptance. Gandhi once said that "honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress." The benefit of being "us" and "U.S." is that we are encouraged to have discourse and discussion that views and debates all sides (please notice the use of the word all; it seems we have forgotten there are more than two sides to every coin). While there are many friends and family with whom I share common beliefs and values, there are just as many with whom I don't...and that is good.
What isn't good is that so many on both sides of the fence have resorted to sounding very much like my adolescent students in not only their argument but in their inability to listen to anyone besides their own sophomoric selves. The hate, the name-calling, the nasty comments about the mental capacity of those who disagree- these are the tactics used by the drama mamas, mean girls, and immature bullies who appall and enrage the adults about whom I speak.
And so tonight, thank you to those who remember to practice the tolerance, acceptance, compassion, honesty, loyalty, strength, etc. that they preach, from whatever pulpit they are preaching- be it liberal, Catholic, Mormon, centrist, Democrat, Republican, straight, gay, whatever- because it is one's true colors (not the one next to the name you selected on your ballot) that will still be seen long after today's results are tallied...and some of them are not nice to look at at all.
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