Salty like hot dogs (and tears). Sweet like marmalade (and life).
“Is there going to be a civil war?” one of my children asked yesterday.
“Gosh, I hope not,” I replied.
The tension in our country is alarming. I’ve never lived in a place where is an active war is being fought, and I don’t think I want to. As Rodney King once said, “Can’t we all just get along?”
To me, the question raised an interesting perspective. From a young person’s point of view, does it look like we’re headed for war?
And what would we hope to gain?
Aren’t there always peaceful solutions?
The Women’s March drew huge numbers. Friends and relatives of mine participated. I did not. Some of the signs I saw posted on social media were positive action signs, but others were angry and negative.
Last week we celebrated Martin Luther King Jr Day. He said,
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Yet, there they were — hating the haters, as if two wrongs make a right.
Hate is a double-edged sword that we wield by the blade. Everyone is hurt by it.
There has to be a better way.
Here are some positive steps we all can take (loosely based on Emanuella Grinberg’s CNN article: You Participated in the Women’s March. Now What?
I love the fact that we can have peaceful protests in this country.
Let’s just keep it constructive, encouraging, and productive.
I am not particularly young, and I have an outside view. My take on it is that yes, it might come to civil war. Hope not. Should it come to war, then I sure hope the Donald keeps it within the USA, ‘cuz we don’t want it!
However, I think it is more likely that the Union will be broken.
But I generally I think that the only thing that will happen is that the rich gets richer, the dumb gets dumber, the divide gets greater and greater, and hopefully you manage to elect someone smart, worthy and capable in 4 years – before all hell breaks loose.
From the outside looking in, I can say that America has survived worse than that man. At the very least this may be an object lesson: don’t vote for someone so spectacularly unqualified just because he’s saying what you want to hear.