The Day After… “I am the master of my fate” (Henley).

Today I feel we showed the world our hate. We taught the world it is not only okay to hate, but it’s acceptable. I don’t mean a hate for Trump or Clinton. No, that is harmless. I am referring to a complete contempt for each other. A comprehensive divide of our country. Facebook was a proverbial battle ground for hate. People shared with their so-called friends and family the most disrespectful, rude, and bullish memes that branded each other monsters, bigots, racists, baby killers, deplorable, and ignorant fools. Then they hid behind their right to freedom of speech and their right to support their candidate. When in fact, that was hate, not support. Not to mention 90% of the memes weren’t based on any semblance of fact. 

However, we fell for it. We fell for the propaganda and rhetoric. The very thing the nation feels it did to show the establishment who is boss by voting for Trump, did it based on false truths and intangible promises. They fell victim to their own manufactured illusionism they blame the media using to poison our minds. Or the rug voters for Hillary hid under to shut their eyes from years of likely ‘political’ falsehoods. Then there was the ‘lesser-of-two evils’ vote. We surely lost all sense of democracy with that one.

So I hate you and you hate me. Well La-Tee-Da! But look at the popular vote, not the electoral vote. We The People are split right down the middle. We’ve been split before, but never with this much hate and uncertainty. Now Trump supporters are telling so-called liberals to suck it up and stop being sore losers. Guess what? If Hillary won, the ‘liberals’ would be saying the same thing to the upset Trump supporters. Hate. Care for each other would show grace on both sides. Care would recognize this was the most impassioned and grueling campaign in history. We’ve all been pulled through the depths of hell. Have some compassion, not hate.

Instead, we continue to pull our skeletons out of the closet and put them up in neon lights for the world to see that we are weak and divided right now. That we formed a Tea Party to promote hate. That we humiliate our President into showing his birth certificate. That we dig up tapes to slander a man, when in fact, we ourselves have probably said some things in our lives we aren’t proud of. Or we blame Hillary for ISIS? Come on. Or blame Trump for racism. Seriously?

Get real America. Just over 50% of eligible voters in America voted yesterday. Even a smaller percentage of the eligible Hispanic voters went out to vote.  This means, millions and millions of Americans stayed home when one of the most important votes in history took place.

So stop America with the hateful memes and ridiculous lies. Admittedly, I posted a couple funny and I think fairly harmless memes… that one with the promise of Mark Ruffolo “Full Monty” in his next movie if we vote. Wait, is that promise coming true? I voted. I want Mark. And SNL killed it this campaign. Let’s hope Alec will have a regular gig and keep us entertained.

We are at the tipping point America. What way are we going to go? Ask yourself this… How much damage did you cause? Were you a hater during the campaign? Did you put down and demean your ‘friends’ and hide behind your right to hate? If so, what will your next move be?

For me, I will go to work tomorrow and do what I can for people I feel have not been given the same opportunities as I was given when I was young. I will fight for people who do not have the same advantages as I have. It doesn’t matter if they are white, black, Hispanic, Muslim, or disabled. I will do my part. One of my characters said the four letter word she could not tolerate was HATE.

I am going to do my best to avoid being a hater.

As Henley so eloquently wrote, “I am the captain of my soul.”