Donald Trump is my President and I am not a Bigot
While this country is slowly tearing itself apart into two overly extreme halves, a large portion of United States citizens find themselves ignorantly hopeful and somewhere in the middle.
It almost seems easier to fit into one of the extreme categories. You can either be placed among extreme liberals holding up “Rape Melania” signs and swearing doom to America, or you can sit yourself next to the Steve Bannons of the world who swear by the alt-right and promise Hillary Clinton’s private email server burned the world down.
But the majority of Americans don’t identify as either.
Over 42% of voters aren’t registered with either major party. That is 42% of a diverse population who really didn’t have a true horse in the race. Those Americans, including myself, did not have a preference for either candidate. In fact, most Americans were extremely dissatisfied with both options.
63% of voters were not satisfied with the options they were given, but when the Democratic process choosers the winner between a douche-bag and a turd sandwich, all Hell breaks loose.
The electoral college, a fine system instilled by our founding fathers to protect from the tyranny of the majority, resulted in an old-fashioned beat down of Hillary Clinton via the left hook of Donald Trump. Trump took Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania, a feat that nobody projected him to accomplish.
As with either result of this election, the extremist left swore the United States was destined to melt to the ground via the hands of a fully Republican Legislature and Donald Trump. Riots ensued, fake new stories were spread, real (and slightly scarier) news stories were under reported, and our President-Elect mocked the New York Times.
The scariest situation in this whole ordeal has been the destruction of anyone that voted for Trump.
If you voted for him or supported him over the last two weeks, you have been thrown in the “basket of deplorables” that include racists, homophobes, xenophobes, KKK members and even Nazis.
The truth is, I am not any of the above; I just want to support the leader of my country. OUR country.
Just like President Barack Obama, there are going to be things that he does that I like and there are going to be decisions that he makes that will make me question how on Earth he got into the Oval Office. But the letter from George H.W. Bush to Bill Clinton expresses the truth in what I feel, and what the rest of the country should feel and how they should act.
Just because I support who my country decided to elect, does not mean I hate anyone, stand with Nazis, want to throw Hillary in prison or any other insane accusation. I will support the 45th President because that’s what it means to be American.
