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Opinions? Fine. Worth shouting about? ...okay, not ideal, but fine.
It stops at the physical. No, seriously. A friend of mine had their political lawn signs (I believe for Obama) stolen from their lawn. A local man had his McCain sign hit with molotov cocktails. Neither of these is acceptable. (Although the latter is worse, and frankly more terrifying since the sign was close to his house. As it happens, his wife was sleeping in the room behind the adjacent windows: had they missed the sign, I don't want to think about what might have happened. They do have suspects in custody.)
Violence is not okay, no matter which candidate you support (or whether you support none). Destruction of property is not okay. Arson is not okay. Theft is not okay. Period.
This election is about who we are going to vote for, not who we are going to lynch. You can trumpet your vote to the world (although if you do so with a yard sign, apparently you're risking quite a bit...). You can keep it quiet. You can dislike people who disagree with you, although I don't recommend it, because usually they have reasons even if you don't share those reasons. (I know a number of thinking people on each side of the fence and whether I agree with them or not, I respect them. I know of some people who are purely on one side of the fence or the other for reasons that seem purely emotional and irrelevant to the actual question of who would be the best president, and I admit I find it hard to respect that. But I don't hate them, though the ones on the side I prefer irritate me as they sometimes say what seem to me rather stupid things while "supporting" that ticket.)
I am disgusted with some of the things people are doing in the name of this election.
Rant over. I'll go back, next time, to talking about happy things. Or complaining about how hard it is to train Ray not to climb all over things he isn't allowed on. (We went through that phase with Apple, too, but Ray responds well to the water bottle. Which sucks when he's climbing on my laptop, as I'm not going to shoot water at it!)
It stops at the physical. No, seriously. A friend of mine had their political lawn signs (I believe for Obama) stolen from their lawn. A local man had his McCain sign hit with molotov cocktails. Neither of these is acceptable. (Although the latter is worse, and frankly more terrifying since the sign was close to his house. As it happens, his wife was sleeping in the room behind the adjacent windows: had they missed the sign, I don't want to think about what might have happened. They do have suspects in custody.)
Violence is not okay, no matter which candidate you support (or whether you support none). Destruction of property is not okay. Arson is not okay. Theft is not okay. Period.
This election is about who we are going to vote for, not who we are going to lynch. You can trumpet your vote to the world (although if you do so with a yard sign, apparently you're risking quite a bit...). You can keep it quiet. You can dislike people who disagree with you, although I don't recommend it, because usually they have reasons even if you don't share those reasons. (I know a number of thinking people on each side of the fence and whether I agree with them or not, I respect them. I know of some people who are purely on one side of the fence or the other for reasons that seem purely emotional and irrelevant to the actual question of who would be the best president, and I admit I find it hard to respect that. But I don't hate them, though the ones on the side I prefer irritate me as they sometimes say what seem to me rather stupid things while "supporting" that ticket.)
I am disgusted with some of the things people are doing in the name of this election.
Rant over. I'll go back, next time, to talking about happy things. Or complaining about how hard it is to train Ray not to climb all over things he isn't allowed on. (We went through that phase with Apple, too, but Ray responds well to the water bottle. Which sucks when he's climbing on my laptop, as I'm not going to shoot water at it!)
