from the mind of critic-11/11/16

From the mind of critic: “If we’re feeling sad and depressed about electing the jokiest joke presdient of all time, is there any good that can be gleaned from it, the silver lining our grandma always told us about? Are there positive aspects of having all the racism, hate, xenophobia, homophobia and ignorance come to the surface after being supressed for decades? Or has all that emotion that has lingered since laws were passed in the 60s, and handed down from generation to generation that was not only allowed to bubble up but encouraged, is that gonna cause otherwise rational and critically thinking people to stick their heads in the sand and hide? It can be hard to find any positives, when we feel like we’ve been let down so badly. However, we can also see it as an oppurtunity to get involved when we otherwise might not have. Maybe we could use this time to unleash positivity and love into the ether, when we might have been scared to before. Maybe if we’re the ultimate pragmatist, we’ll see that whatever positivity we’ve felt in the past, we’re now free to unleash it, because we finnaly realize it is the most powerful weapon we have. I went from numb, to feeling good because I realized what’s actually important and what actually matters, which is being a good person and loving our neighbor. This is something we’ve been sorely lacking in our personal lives, which is why it reared its ugly head in our political lives. We can defeat anything if we stand up and love each other. For if we do, we’ll squash all the hate and ignorance that rose in this election, so it cowers in the corner where it belongs.We have the power, will we finnaly use it?” 🙂