No Hate

The election is 45 days away. I know it feels longer if you watch TV because political ads seems to make time stand still. I did not watch any TV for the six weeks I was away. I did watch the debate on my iPad on CSPAN, so I avoided ads.

Since I have come home and resumed my TV watching habits by about 50% of what it was before I left I have come to one conclusion. Who you Vote for this year should be boiled down to one trait… kindness.

If a candidate is about hate, how can they possibly be for the whole electorate? Electing people who say they are for one group, but not others is no way to run a country, state, county or town. You should fear people who call out groups or individuals to be hated.

Our elected officials are supposed to work for the whole. If you elect someone who tells you they hate someone today who you do not identify with, you have no guarantee that you might not be in the next group they decide to hate.

When one particular national candidate posted, “I hate Taylor Swift” that is the sign of someone who is incapable of holding the highest office in the land because writing you “hate” someone is first, childish and second unkind. When that same candidate’s running mate spreads stories about legal immigrants eating dogs and cats, even after learning that someone made up that story, it is nothing but unkind, by demeaning of a group he wants people to hate.

We did not have so much public hate before we had a President who publicly sided with some Americans and was against others. This division is not what most Americans want and the difference comes down to those who believe it is fine to be unkind and those who are kind.

The most important thing we can do in America in 45 days is bring Kindness back and say no to divineness.