I hate what Retrumplicans have done to me [View all]

[maxrandb]

Despite serving 30 years in the Navy, I always considered myself a man of peace. I was able to square my service in the military, because I truly believed in the goodness of America.

I'm not naive. I know my country has done terrible things. Our history is rife with it.

It was my belief that despite our flaws, we had the ability and the will to strive for a more perfect union.

Maybe it was the way I was raised and the example of my parents, our maybe it was something that I naturally had inside me... but I always had empathy. I always tried to put myself in others shoes. I failed to live up to that standard many times, but I tried to get better. I can honestly say that I never relished in others pain. The approach was always a bit of "there, but for the grace of God go I"

The past 3+ years, and even going back to when the T-Baggers came into existence, I've lost empathy. I may have lost reason and understanding too.

When I see the orange hellspawns face, hear his voice, see a yardsign, T-shirt or ball cap, I'm filled with a burning rage that threatens to consume me.

Watching these dumbass "please fucking murder my children for a 5 point pop in the Stock Market" protests, I find it hard to define what I wish on these people. Scouring Dante's Inferno is not enough to find a punishment that befits these dipshits. The fact that they may be my neighbor, or attend my church does not assuage the hatred I feel.

I'm not sure how America comes back from this. I don't know how I come back from this.

Hatred really makes me no better than them, but hatred seems appropriate and needed.

I'm not sure I'll ever be the same. I'm not sure if I will ever get back to the man I want to be... to the man I was, but I'm going to try my damnedest to turn my anger and hatred into productive work to defeat Retrumplicanism and send it to the asheep of history.

It's the only way to save my soul.