What have we become as a nation? I am pretty sure that is a question that much of the world is asking. This week I am reading there is a Fox News person calling on us to attack Canada, we have Trump calling for us to take Greenland for our economic security, and Tommy Tuberville is saying that we have to take back the Panama Canal in case we have to go to war over Taiwan. Trump has not been sworn in and taken the oath of the Presidency but we have chaos already. Trump campaigned on a lot of issues but I hate to say it wasn’t the annexation of Canada or Greenland. It also wasn’t about taking back the Panama Canal. Trump vowed to have the biggest deportation in the history of American. What I am reading now it looks like it is not going to happen as easily Trump made it sound. We are a country of laws and procedures which Trump will try and bypass but not without a fight. Deporting the numbers that he has promised just isn’t going to happen. In fact, you could actually say that h...
How do we address all the hate that we have now? The only thing I can attribute what is happening in the world is because of hate. Hate is such a big subject it is hard to write about. I am a believer we are taught to love and we are taught to hate. I swear some people just look for excuses to hate. They use their hate as a tool to lash out for their own failures. I am not any different from the person next to me and I am capable of feeling the hate that is all around me. There are things I passionately hate such as racism and bigoty. I hate bullies. One thing I have never let happen to me is to hate something so much that I would drive a truck into a group of people celebrating the New Year. That is hate that has been distorted into a rage I never want to feel but I need to try and understand. In fact, I think understanding what causes this rage may just help us all avoid the violence that this rage can cause. Is there a difference in the hatred and rage that leads to a school...