“In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.” ― Dalai Lama XIV

I do believe it is time for another political rant. I know you all love these. -_- but this one has been stewing on my brain for quite some time. So if you got offended by my last post don’t read this one. Be excited.

This is how i feel about this subject...

It seems to me that after the election things haven’t gotten any better. Now instead of openly attacking our president, people are now nit picking everything he does. I swear he could go to the bathroom incorrectly and Utah would be in an uproar. I have now heard things such as he is the antichrist, just like Hitler, the most un-American president we have had, an ass, a Nazi, a dictator, and the reason we need to have a revolution. WHAT IS GOING ON!?

A lot of this stems from the Connecticut MASSACRE that happened in December. Obama is now trying to figure out some way to help this nation fix what is going on. Most of these attacks on the president stem from his new gun control actions. I am not sure how I feel on gun control myself. Especially after the December events of children being killed. I feel that something needs to be done. Something with guns. However, guns are inanimate objects that can’t do anything without someone to pull the trigger. With that in mind though, something needs to change.

First beef. People are reacting to these new gun policies like Obama is going to call in the Gestapo and force people to hand in their guns. Pull a sleeping beauty and make a pile of guns and burn them all. (if you are unfamiliar with this metaphor please go watch the awesome and beautiful classic). This is not going to happen. The focus of the new gun control is EDUCATION. Currently for the past 17 years there has been a ban on gun-violence research. What. The. Hell!? Why!? That’s my question. Is lifting this ban a bad thing? He wants to put police officers into school. How is that evil? Sure think the Connecticut mothers would have liked that. More background checks. He wants to improve background checks. Yeah that sure is evil.

Even Emily is upset there is a 17 ban on research on gun violence.

I do not agree with Obama 100%. His health plan will drastically affect me as a future health care professional. But I don’t attack the man. He is a human. With a family.  And deserves respect. He is trying to do what he thinks best. Ultimately 4 years will come and go and some other “antichrist” will come up and change all that Obama is doing. He is in charge of appeasing a nation that is filled with different races, religions, ideas, sexual orientations, and differences. Give the man a break. You try being president and trying to appease everyone. People who don’t agree with you at all. It. Wont. Happen. And we need to start a revolution!? That makes perfect sense. Instead of trying to increase education, let’s take the very things that we are fighting about and kill more people. Makes absolute sense. Because the last civil war we had ended with about 200, 000 from combat. Yeah that makes perfect sense. (http://www.historynet.com/civil-war-casualties) (this is a citation. It tells you the credible source in which I got my information from. These are uncommon in social media now a days…)

Second beef. Facebook. Facebook has changed everything. I love the stupid social network. But it is incredibly damaging. People can now gather information from who knows what kind of idiotic websites out there and post it like it is actual fact. I don’t think its evil to voice your opinion on Facebook as long as it is civil and you have the right facts. Anyone remember their English teachers saying don’t use Wikipedia because it can say anything? Well its not just Wikipedia that lies. Obama didn’t single handedly raise milk prices. Sorry. Unfortunately people now hide behind the magic mirror of the Facebook wall and say whatever the damn they want. Would people call Obama the antichrist and Hitler in front of his wife and children? Only on Facebook.

Third and Final Beef. Would you really like to live anywhere else? Probably not. I was very apathetic in politics until I spent two years in a third world country. Where I didn’t have everything I wanted. I lived in areas where people were lucky to have a little meat in their food for the week. Where concrete and wood put together with who knows what constituted a house. Where the kids would play in the black green sludge that came out of the gutter. Where kids would get pregnant and 12 and 13 on a regular basis, and every 10 year old new where to get drugs in the neighborhood. Where the thought of living on yearly salaries meant you were rich. Yeah we have it hard. Yeah our country is headed to its doom. Seeing the real world made me wonder at how INCREDIBLE Americans really have it. To be quite honest we have NOTHING to complain about. Nothing. I lived with a kerosene stove as my only method to cook. Where only one appliance could be used at a time. Where my floor was straight concrete. Where my bathroom looked like a serial killers hide out. But yeah, let’s whine about government stealing all our guns. I’d rather have carpet.

Yeah We have it bad.

Our only table to cook on...

Either that or a microwave

Notice the beautiful sheet acting as our blinds?

Moral of this blog is let’s all just cut the damn attacking and be civil people. Whether you support the president’s agenda or not. I am a Christian and Christ taught us to love EVERYONE. So did my parents. Christ chastised the very people who were scrutinizing his beliefs, yet forgave him even when they nailed him to the cross. Don’t we do the same when we attack Obama. Let’s not throw stones. Let’s worry about what really matters. We will all still have our guns. But there are people who don’t have food. What’s more important? Once you decide. Try going and doing something about it instead of putting it up on your wall.

p.s. My thoughts and opinions. I know some of you will hate me, or not agree with me. And that’s okay. Just be civil please.

p.p.s you get  800 blog points for reading all of this. It was a doozy. 200 more if you leave feedback.  

“I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that's it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.”
― J.K. Rowling  (LOVE THIS. So True. Maybe this is why I love the books so much.)

Truth.