Dear Amy Schumer & the list of other celebrities who claimed they were moving if Donald Trump won:
This letter is to you, with your bad behavior, who've now shut yourselves in to your fancy houses, or done a complete about face, calling all those trying to hold you to your word 'racists'. One of the buzz words of the liberal agenda for years has been the word tolerance. I feel like I need to speak up, because it doesn't seem like you understand the meaning of this word so, let me just remind you what the dictionary states:
Tolerance:
noun
1.
a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
2.
a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward opinions, beliefs, and practices that differ from one's own.
We see from the above definition what tolerance is...and, what it isn't. I'm astonished, disheartened, and even somewhat appalled by the viciousness displayed in the aftermath of what some may call an historic election. I haven't gloated. I haven't denigrated the candidate for whom I did not vote. Yet I see accusations of my personal choice in the blanket statements of those who didn't vote as I did, characterizing any and all who voted as I did as idiots. Bigots. Xenophobes. Homophobes. Complacent to racism. Self-haters. We all live in America, where we have the privilege of being able to cast a vote for whomever we choose. It's secret, unless we choose to disclose it. It's one of the things that sets this great nation apart-freedom. Tolerance is not dismissing someone else's opinion, merely because it differs from your own. Tolerance becomes tyranny when you only tolerate those voices that match yours in meter and practice.
Tolerance is not accepting the stridency in someone else's voice only when it matches your own. The fact that a certain percentage of Americans have bought the liberal jargon sickens those of us who haven't. We're not out to hurt you, blame you, take away your rights, or go to war. People like me just want to be able to live our lives freely. without the government interfering in every aspect. We're tired of being taxed beyond reason. We're tired of the corruption of both main parties. We want America to be America again. We don't want a global state...period. We are all for a woman president. There was just no way we were going to tolerate this specific woman as president. The newsflash here is that it was not just low income, straight, white people who voted for this candidate. I can also assure you that should this man not keep his promises, the group who voted him in to office will vote him in to exiting that same building.
So your immature ridiculousness will eventually fade in to the background. We will, as a country, move slowly forward, and given time we will see if promises made are fulfilled or tossed to the side.
My vote was an easy decision. When someone has the audacity to state boldly they will be raising taxes, that makes my blood boil. The corrupt people in government already waste the incredibly burdensome amount of taxes we pay on pet projects hidden deep within bills. Anyone who voted red was saying loudly and clearly, I refuse to vote for 'business as usual'. I want a change, and I saw president-elect Trump as my best option to facilitate that change.
Go back to trying to do your job-entertaining the masses. Those of us who enjoy your foul mouthed and off-color humor will still pay to be entertained, and those of us who don't will find alternative entertainment, just as we've always done. I never asked for your political opinion. I think for myself. I listened, read, and came to my own conclusion. All your angry rhetoric did was make me that much more determined to vote as I did. I don't have a private position and a public one, as I personally feel your candidate does and did.
For those of you who might peek in on a fairly regular basis to this blog, I thank you. I also know some of you will disagree with me-vehemently. I'm okay with that. I am not perfect, nor are my opinions. But, because I live in the greatest nation on earth, I can write my opinions and share them. Just as you can. Our Constitution declares that "all men are created equal", and that each of us who lives here is entitled to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". Stop squabbling. Stop protesting, rioting, burning the president-elect in effigy, burning our flag, threatening to assassinate him, and move on. The only way we can ever start moving towards healing our broken land...and, it is broken, make no mistake!- is to stop being focused inward. We need to get our eyes off ourselves, look around, and get involved so that we each, individually can make a difference-even if it's only in one person's life. That is when true change will come.
The knee-jerk reaction of those voters whose secretly cast votes have NOT yielded the result which they as pollsters were hoping to achieve, seems to trigger "school playground behaviour". As if they protest loudly and for long enough, the democratic result will be overturned. Typical of the "spoilt-child" behaviour, one expects from an uneducated individual. (As you know Penny, my own country has recently experienced a similar upheaval with our "Brexit" vote. We also are experiencing EXACTLY the same reaction on the streets.(though not from myself personally, despite the decision being contrary to MY choice of final outcome). I HAVE to accept the democratic vote, and "go with the flow", even though doing so may jar and clash with my personal outlook. :-). Suck it up buttercup, accept the facts, and work with that with which you have been provided, to attain your own individual aspirations in YOUR life. With respect, I remain me. :-D
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