Tell me why I should not be scared. Tell me why I should not worry. Tell me why I should not get a little nauseous every time I read a new sound bite or idea promoted by the newly elected public servants. Because when I open the paper, I find a lot about these folks that scares me – and they scared me before.
Specifically, I feel the need for a very honest and thoughtful explanation from those who are happy with the broadbase, electoral changes that will come into being next year for those who, like myself, really did not want them. Here in Ohio, I’m literally petrified of how my state now is blood red – every single branch – every single Supreme Court Justice even. I don’t want to feel scared and angry and with my guard up and hating on what’s about to happen here on so many levels, but I want people who I listen to to tell me why I should not feel this way – I want to not feel this way. And I’m sure that I’m not the only one feeling like this, across the country.
I’m not looking to defend why I find what they say they want to do as being scary. And I’m not interested in attacking why I can’t buy what it is you’re buying. My request – sincere – comes from knowing that I know people whom I believe have reasonable heads on their shoulders. I want to understand why those whom I do believe are smart and compassionate but prefer different methods for getting at problems than I might, and with that, have different priorities that inform how they prefer to solve problems, find what appears to be happiness and comfort in this changing of the guard. Because I’m totally not getting that. I’m not sure I ever will – I’ll say that from the start. But I absolutely want to understand what it is that you see that I don’t see or that I’m rejecting – if in fact I do. I totally do not want to move back East but I’m a blue girl in a red state now and stepping out of the cave and into the political sphere as I have, I’m really, really not happy with what I’m seeing in the Ohio future. Those who supported Kasich et al – clearly you see something different.
I want to understand that. So I’m asking, and listening. I’m going to let this thread run a bit before offering any comment, if any. And please, try to embrace the spirit of being asked and not use this as an opportunity to gloat or otherwise be snarky or nasty. Think of me like a kid and how you’d calmly and without expletives or anger explain to a 12 year old why you are excited about the changes and the positive results you see coming from them in the future.