Just Breathe

  I see a lot of angry and scared people these days. I'm not being smug. I'm often anxious and easily triggered into anger too. I often see people posting on social media about loving Jesus but then the next post they make is how we need to put America first and if the poor are on the other side of the border then so be it. I'm sure that makes Jesus proud. After all in the fifth gospel of Americanus it does say to put "Nation" before your fellow man if they are not on this side of the border. No? You mean Jesus wasn't American and there is no book of Americanus? OMG! Next thing you will tell me is that Jesus doesn't care anymore for Merica than he does for Palestine.

 Then I see people blaming Trump for the rampaging gangs of white people slaughtering black people and the local police out hunting down black people. Why just the other day I saw the police squad as they hunted black folks down my street and shot...Wait, you don't beleive me? Well that's odd because some of you have no problem with seeing a mentally ill person goaded into saying racial slurs on the subway and then saying that is an example of white racism.

 I guess it's just seeing all this "Us vs Them" crap on my facebook newsfeed everyday. People who say they believe in the 10 commandments of which one is "Don't bear false witness" but then they share any rumor that pops up on their newsfeed as long as it has an unflattering picture of Nancy Pelosi or Michelle Obama or some lie about how the democrats are going to eat your children right out of the womb while diverting Social Security funds to the Clinton Foundation. Guess what folks? It's not the Democrats that have tried to cut Social Security and call it an entitlement as if the government is doing you a favor by giving you your own money that you paid in taxes towards your own retirement. That would be Mr. Paul Ryan and the repugs.

  I also see a lot of Democrats yelling racist every time a person say's they vote conservative and hate abortion. Caring about the snail darter and the eggs of the penguin is being sensitive and enlightened. But, when it's a baby in the womb it's okay to say it's only a fetus and if it's inconvenient for the momma then the rest of us should consider it a holy right of womanhood to tear "it" out of the womb. Now, before the shrill "life of the mother" folks start let me say this. The life of the mother is protected as far as I know in any operating room I also agree that it's a woman's right to choose to have a baby or not. But, let's stop sugar coating it and be honest. A rape victim should never be made to carry a rapist's child. A minor should never be made to have a baby. But, most abortions are targeted at poor women often African American and yet the liberals (of which I am one) seem to turn a blind eye to that fact.

On the other hand the republicans have cut Medicaid to poor people and caused rural hospitals to close therefore causing children already born to suffer. How is that any better morally than aborting them in the womb. Also conservatives love to wave the flag and cheer the bombs falling on others. How is blowing up a kid or a family in Iraq something to cheer about? At least have the decency before God to morn the loss of life and lively hood of other humans even if you do support your own nation.

  So, that's why I just breathe. Instead of  sharing the latest picture of Nancy Pelosi with horns or the latest meme of a mean old white person spouting racism on the subway. I try to find the middle and realize that we all have an opinion. But, we also have the responsibility to be honest and not treat politics as if it were a football game instead of life and death for the people who the politicians make policy for and against.