I am sitting at my normal watering hole on this Friday night.
I have a professional day job. I am also a musician. I decided to sit out on a gig tonight. I’m glad I did.
I packed up my tobacco pipe and headed to my bar. I found a friend of mine as I walked in. He is a very vocal liberal. Hates GEOTUS and everything about him. Fine, whatever.
We talked. It somehow shifted to politics. Weird, since I never bring it up if I know I disagree with whom I am speaking with.
He started ranting about Trump. I listened, as always. I didn’t debate. I just listened.
Then, he did something that flipped a switch.
He called me a racist.
I said absolutely nothing racist. I didn’t defend my political beliefs while he was ranting.
He called me “inherinly racist” for being white. He’s white.
I fucking lost it.
I’m not going to go into what I said due to me not wanting to give too many clues about myself and inadvertently doxxing myself to a fucking leftist. But, I will say that I feel invigorated.
I finally started offering rebuttals to stupid leftist shit on social media.
I’m. Done.
I voted for him in 2016 and (cue Goofy meme) I’ll fucking do it again.
Trump 2020. Let’s Make America Great Again once more, Pedes.
Again... not saying I don’t understand it. But that doesn’t also preclude me from being empathetic. It’s the nature of humans to want and build, it’s the nature of nations to seek growth. I get that. But I can also still recognize events or acts that happened throughout history and call them out for being what they are. I can feel sympathy for the slaves of the Roman Republic and Empire that were used to fuel infrastructure and expansion while also still recognizing the greatness and importance of the nation that much of the modern Western world is built on. Do I think the Italian government should send Germany reparations for harm done to the descendants of the original Gallic tribes? No - that’s absolutely stupid. Do I think that the leaders of Rome should propose knocking down the Coliseum or the Pantheon because it was built off of slave labor? Again, a terrible and stupid idea. But it’s just as stupid to also ignore that the nation utilized slaves to do this.
History is history. You can’t cherry pick the things you like and ignore the things you don’t like - you’re no better than these BLM and Antifa rioters if you do that. The United States unquestionably did some very poor things to Native Americans, whether you believe justified or not, it happened and should be acknowledged.