"The Others" Are Coming - Protect Yourselves

All of the hateful language, speeches and yes, even the commentary, are based on fear versus reasoning during these dark days of December, 2015.

We are currently involved in listening to people talking about banning people with certain religious beliefs from coming into the US. Amazing - people founded a country based on religious freedom, fleeing persecution and now we actually would consider a leader who would ban people based on a religion.

And then of course there are the Mexicans. More problems, more people to bar, ban, lock behind a wall. Let's see, who are some of the other 'Others'? Who are the other people who have forced us into political correctness?  Ah the list is long - people with disabilities (why can't we just get back to making fun of them?), blacks, students, women, liberals, leftists, the mainstream media, Hollywood elitists, gays, lesbians, the list goes on.

All of this is based on fear. Reasoning has gone out the window. Local sheriffs are recommending that people with permitted weapons begin to carry them because we live in such violent times. That's what we need - more guns to deal with all of these issues. And when first responders show up to some other unfortunate and deadly event, now they'll have to determine who are the good guys with weapons and who are the bad guys with weapons. The rest of us will need to watch out for the cross fire.

So the bottomline is that we all have to protect ourselves in these perilous times. "The others" are coming. We don't know who they are from one day to the next but we do know this, they're not us. They look and think differently. They sometimes talk differently. They worship differently.

All of this is, of course, shameful but few people are really speaking up. Partly I think because of the other great fear. Is it possible that this is in fact the way our country has changed? Are the hateful things that are being spouted in a bombastic way really the thoughts and values of a large portion of the population? We all hope not, but...but...