Why Can’t We Evolve?
I’m really sick of the gays.
And abortion, and Critical Race Theory, and the list goes on until racism slams against the period that ends this sentence. I’m sick of it all. Period.
Why does this country stubbornly refuse to evolve? We should settle an issue and leave it behind. Move on from the past. Roe v. Wade is law, America’s history is etched in stone and, even after one civil war, hating our neighbor is as well.
Why do people spend time hating?
Is it ingrained in Mankind’s DNA to hate “the other?” It’s not confined to America. Hate for one’s neighbor is rampant all around the world. Europe’s wars for world domination, Christian vs. Muslim religious wars, genocides against so many different peoples that it would sicken me to look it up to know.
Mankind is a brutal, hateful, and very loving construct. Our lizard brain can’t seem to fight off the first two and allow the latter to take over. Why can’t we evolve?
Had we set aside these decided issues long ago, and gone on about our business, government wouldn’t need to have its thumb on so many of our lives. I, too, want to keep government from meddling in my business. The problem is, the people who want to perpetuate hatred would then be given carte blanche.
Given a choice, they wouldn’t rent to anyone in the LGBTQ community. They wouldn’t rent to anyone in the black community. The freedom to do as a person damned well pleases is the freedom to discriminate. Segregated communities are not communities. They are prisons for each social class, including the alpha class. “Don’t cross to the ‘other side of the tracks.’ They’ll get you.”
It’s hate that keeps government in our lives. The government has to regulate it so that it doesn’t happen (as often). Americans made their own nanny state. The kids can’t get along without supervision. Left to our own devices, we would kill each other. We’ve already proven that.
Growing up in small town Missouri in the 1960s, we all knew who the “tomboys” and the “sissy boys” were in our neighborhood. My parents mentioned my friends at dinner with a wink and a chuckle. I didn’t know why. Kids don’t care if other kids are a little different. It was my parents who implied I should care. Hate is learned. With a side glance from my dad to my mom, hatred of “the other” is quietly passed on. Initially, it isn’t hate. It was intimated that there was something different about one of my friends. It was never explained.
If you take one thing away from this rant, talk to your kids about sexuality. Hate will grow from a seed. It can evolve. Why can’t we?
LGBTQ kids were, and are, prone to depression, psychologically destroying themselves by denying of their identity, physically hurting themselves, and suicide. All because a kid wants to be loved, and wants to love who they want to love. A basic American freedom — denied.
When the LGBTQ community stayed behind the scenes, for the most part they were ignored. If the little tomboy grew into a lesbian woman and moved on, that was fine. Out of sight, out of mind. When the gay community realized that moving on wouldn’t work, that discrimination would follow, it asked for equal rights. All Hell broke loose.
In this country all people are created equal. The Declaration Of Independence mentions men, but men do not comprise the entire nation. America is a melting pot of colors, creeds, religions, and sexes. All are Americans and all are protected specifically by the wording of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. All people are created equal. It might be time to rewrite men out of the Declaration while symbols of bigotry disappear from the South. If only bigotry itself were as easy to move into a museum.
Some men think that all of this is a plot to further the mythical emasculation of power from the white male. This vocal minority of America believes that despite all of the privilege a white male has, white men will be relegated to the sidelines. If these men would start acting like men, they would have nothing to fear. Real men have no fear of “the other.”
Real men live their lives and let everyone else live theirs.
God loves gay people. He must, or he wouldn’t have created so many. To hate another person because of who they love is defying God’s will. God will frown upon the souls of people who hate. His children are all loved equally by Him. On that, God and the Constitution agree.
Today, a gay child, when she realizes that she is gay should be accepted. It should be acceptable for her to know herself, and accept who she is without hesitation, or guilt. Parents accept it, the government accepts it, all the “woke” people wanting to rewrite the Declaration of Independence (only me) accept it. God willed it when He created Mankind in His image.
Everyone agrees, and we’re all sick of discussing it. Issue settled. Move on.
It’s time to evolve.
Email: snomasokist@msn.com
Addendum: After rereading this, apparently I just wrote a screed of Critical Race Theory from my childhood. It’s American history. Knowing it, and learning from it, ensures we don’t repeat it. It is how we evolve.
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