Persecution in Full Swing!
I find it interesting that living in the most progressive nation in the world, I suddenly find myself on the receiving end of persecution. With this election so thoroughly dividing the country, I’ve found myself on the left side of the win. It’s not a very comfortable place to be.
Aren’t we decades past when the color of someone’s skin was cause to judge them wrongly? How did we find this place where now we are judged by the color of our vote?
Just yesterday I had a coworker make a crack about how I wasn’t receiving a raise this year because I had canceled out my boss’s vote. And not 2 hours later, I am having a discussion totally unrelated to politics with someone, and that person makes a comment about how he ‘hates’ someone because of their vote for Kerry.
I work in the defense industry, so I am a rare liberal in a conservative-dominated field. I get the same emails you do. You know the ones, where if we elected Kerry the secret service would have to protect his 5 homes for his entire life (not true), or about how his wife supposedly gives money to terrorist organizations (also not true). The difference is that I get them as a single recipient, not a mass mailing, and get a
LOT of them. They are aimed directly at me because they know, just by my lack of willingness to discuss politics with them, that I am a liberal.
I voted for John Kerry. He wasn’t the best man for the job, but he sure is better than what we have now. You voted for George W. I don’t understand that, but that is YOUR choice, and THAT my friend is the beauty of living in a free country.
