Tolerance
I haven’t been blogging. Not because nothing is happening but because I get about 3 minutes per day when I am not holding a child. And he doesn’t like the computer. And I guess I have this image of these nice blogs with clear links and research. Well, it is either post just my emotion and gut responses or post nothing. I guess I have been posting nothing.
But, today. Today I am mad. And just so incredibly frustrated. I am mad that I feel I bend over backwards to keep following the idea of not pushing my beliefs on anyone, to keep following the idea of tolerance. And for me, that means, let me have my bubble, you can have your bubble.
America is screwed up. The mixing pot was a dumb idea. Voting for all these things nationally is even dumber. We can’t all agree. We are entirely too diverse. Pitting the “conservatives” against the “liberals” is just another way to continually keep us enslaved and no way to move forward. Stop pushing for universal everything and empower your community!
We really should have remained a bunch of small communities like communes based on our beliefs, not on finances or race, but true beliefs. Then communities could support themselves and if they wanted to have marriage defined differently in one area and not in another, they could do so. If some wanted to pay for condoms for their community and another didn’t, they could make that choice and live with it. If one wanted church organizations to help with the poor and another wanted the community to, they could do that.
Instead they pit us against each other. We are each fighting to live our lives how WE want to live our lives. I want to homeschool, I want to raise my children in MY faith. I want to have natural child birth. I want to eat locally and have raw milk available. I want local pastured eggs and grass fed beef and pork. I want to support small businesses and local farmers because my faith tells me it is the right thing to do and the sinking health of society as we become allergic to mass produced crap food shows it is right.
And I don’t care if you don’t want those things. But at least let me have them. And you can do whatever. Just stop punching my bubble. Stop letting the world take away my rights to give you yours.
Focus on your family. Focus on your community. Stop trying to make America agree nationally. We’ll all be happier.
