the bait

People who have a one sided view of our current situation will do anything to pick a fight.  I have several friends who are like that.  I never go trolling on what they post because I'm not made that way.  If that's what they believe I will never change their minds.  Yet they never cease to come back at me and my opinions calling me things like stupid and uninformed.  Several of my friends will get into the fray with these folks and they get insulted too.  One of them, a very cool younger dude, posted this the other day in the midst of a long thread attacking my beliefs.  "It makes my blood boil to see these people laughing at your good faith."  I usually brush the trolls off and rarely take the bait even if they come onto MY personal page attempting to make themselves feel better and more powerful.  That sad thing is that they really believe all this crap.  

Hey, I get it.  Often a new president will blame the past administration for the problems they inherited.  That's part of the job, ya' know?  It serves no purpose to mean tweet those from the past because we have big problems in the now.  That is a weakness in and of itself when looking for a way forward.  The past is the past.....let it go.  Focus on the problems at hand and don't insist that your way is the right way.  By executive order, no less.  Trump et al are going way too fast and having to backtrack a lot which is good.  But it's only because people are finally standing up to the bully tactic.  Federal employees who have, or will lose their jobs, are standing up.  People at town halls are angry with their elected representatives for throwing them under the bus.  It will take a bit of a revolution but I pray that the forces for good will prevail instead of us ending up hanging on the wall in Gilead.  We may all end up in Canada which will, never ever be the 51st state.  

The car thing is still up in the air.  If they don't show me some mercy I will have to turn the rental in tomorrow with no check and no vehicle.  My friends have offered us rides to where we need to go which is mostly work for Lauren.  She is driver in chief now because of my vision.  I refuse to do what my parents did and let pride get in the way of my safety.  "You are not alone" says Matthew.  And I feel it y'all, seriously.  Keep the faith ^j^