2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Sound of Silence [View all]glowing
(12,233 posts)because I'm so tired of being on Juries... Calling someone who makes what i do, work as hard as I do, and lives in FL "entitled", is so far from the truth it makes me want to cry or laugh at the absurdity. But then, I've been fighting for things that were unpopular long before the country turned its mind around; especially the war. And we did get in to visit Senator Nelsons office. I quite literally had my 2 yr old in tow when we got that meeting, that was only with staffers at the end of the day.
It bothers me immensely the directions that this country is heading into. What concerns me even more is my child's strange proclivity for the military...(yeah for an anti-war, peace loving Mom, this is really something that's hard to swollen). However, our family has history with military service, and I can't discount the natural proclivity he has had to studying military warfare since the age of 5. So, it bothers me immensely if we would continue to engage in wars of aggression with our next President; because he will be 18 when in the next 8yrs. (I've hopefully got him to do ROTC and go after college and as an officer, but who knows if that's financially plausible by then?) His alternative life careers would be firefighter, police officer, or Secret Service... So, I basically have a kid who wants to help others overwhelmingly and doesn't mind putting his life on the line for it. I'm still hopping for him to change his mind over the next few years, but time will only tell.
Just calling people "entitled", when they are so clearly not, is ridiculous. Shit, I wish I was entitled. I wouldn't feel as if I had to care one 1/2 about the country or this world if I was wealthy. Id be planning my summer abroad with the kids and my sister in law, and not caring at all to post here. I might even be a Republican if I was so well off and entitled. That's normal for Floridians that are on the richer side of the lawn.
And again, I wonder what sort of country you espouse to live inside of? Or what your goal is in posting nasty things to people? It certainly isn't productive if you are trying to persuade people to vote for Clinton. BTW, FL primary for President is over. The next primary is state concerns, and then there's the GE. As for some of the provisionals on the ballot for the GE, I'm already in favor of Medical Marijuana. Perhaps embracing that, would help get some of the youth out to vote if Clinton is the nominee.