red states, blue states, united states....

Since the election...well, since I awoke from my haze of realizing that the nation didn't agree with my choice and my vision. But since then...all I have seen is the bashing, pointing fingers and the division continuing.

I hear people blaming the evangelical community for Bush's second term. I hear people blaming the low brow "red necks" for Bush's victory. I hear people placing the blame at the feet of those hell bent against gay marriage. And, of course I hear the age old debate between the blue and the red states.

I grew up in New York...a blue state, but in a red area.
I went to college in Vermont, which is all blue baby.
I went to grad school and lived for years in Indiana...which is a red state, but I lived in the tiny pocket of blue that they allowed.
I moved back to New York...to the state of blue, but I still live in shades of red.

Why do we have to break each other apart? We do we need to bash those which are different from us? Why do we need to come down on someone because they vote differently, have different values or just come from another color state. Someone on another blog...called those from the red states the "heart and soul" of America...making the assumption that those from the blue states were not.

Aurghh! I have just had enough of it. How is any of it going to solve anything? Is writing a piece called fuckthesouth.com going to do anything? Is that going to change history and Bush will no longer be President? Of course not. So..STOP IT! Both sides...STOP IT! If you are not part of a solution...you are part of the problem. I see most bloggers...bitter and completely part of the problem. STOP IT!

I want to leave this post with some quotes from Barak Obama. He has been proclaimed the rising hope of the Democratic Party...with his charisma and charm. It seems like some of the democrats have quickly forgotten some of his inspirational words at the DNC convention. I think they are words that each side should remember. So, here they are:

"Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes.

Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America -- there is the United States of America.

There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America -- there is the United States of America.

The pundits, the pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states; red states for Republicans, blue states for Democrats. But I've got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states.

We coach Little League in the blue states and have gay friends in the red states.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported it.

We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or do we participate in a politics of hope?"

How quickly we forget...when we are hurting and need to lash out. Let's remember...and be better human beings.

/rant over.