So off to the Urgent Care we went to see if stitches would be required. Once at the urgent care we waited, and waited, and waited.
It was after a couple of hours that I started to get a little bored so I sent out a light hearted post about our long wait and said something about having no idea the Obama Care had kicked in already. It was meant as a joke.
But admittedly I should have known better.
I learned during the past election cycle that common sense was dead. It was replaced by incredibly over-sensitive people who don’t believe in humor. They only believe in “their position” and refuse to even listen to anything else.
Just to be sure, this is not just a “Democratic” problem, there are just as many over zealous Republicans as there are Democrats. Maybe more.
I received one response to my tweet that said I was being immediately un-followed. I replied that my tweet was meant as a joke. The response I got back was amazing: He said that killing people, poor people, black people, union people, as ALL Republicans want to do is no joking matter.
Another response said that my “insensitivity” showed my “white privilege” and the racist leanings of ALL Republicans.
A few others just cut to the chase and said they hoped I died for insulting the President.
Really? Has it come to that? Is it any wonder nothing gets done in Washington with the outright hatred on both sides of the isle.
Where is the common sense folks? We are all one people and everyone’s opinion matters. What many people don’t seem to realize is that if you don’t allow someone else’s opinion to matter then your opinion doesn’t matter either.
If you only listen to people who agree with you, then you will never learn anything. If you only talk to people who already agree with you, then you’ll likely never have the opportunity to make a real difference in the world.
In my tweet I never said anything about being Republican, never insulted President Obama, never said anything about killing anyone. Yet, that’s what people took from my mention of Obama Care.
Maybe we need to watch a little less of Fox News and MSNBC and return to the days when we valued and learned from the opinions of our friends and families, not people paid to drive up ratings by slandering “the other side”.
I hope common sense can make a comeback; if it doesn’t we are all in for a tough, likely unhappy future.
Can I get a vote for the return of Common Sense to American Society???