Someone said during the campaign that you don’t have to be a hateful bigot to support Trump but you have to be OK with hate and bigotry.
Words matter. They are our thoughts. Ideas. Emotions. They express who we are and what we believe in.
Like many people I’m very overwhelmed by the amount of hatred we’ve seen. Maybe this is who we are fundamentally as humans.
But thankfully so is the battle against it.
Today I found myself struggling with the things we are all taught and that we teach children. Playing the game with fairness and respect. That there are no short cuts. Not be full of shit. That if you live that life, you can be proud of it because doing the right things are important. That goodness prevails from doing the right things regardless if the outcome is in your favor.
I find it hard to believe that anything we saw from that campaign holds up against that test.
This isn’t about winning and losing. This is about who we are and what we aspire to be as humans.