Can we all just get along

     I think the current election cycle has all of us on the edge of our collective seats no matter which aisle you sit on. And that is just the thing; The aisles are split right down the middle. I have been at least marginally aware of my life dating back to President ford and now all the way to Obama. The political process and the party changes have not noticeably affected my development, hindered my wealth, restricted me, or enabled me to do any more; than what I have accomplished in this life.

     Therefore, I must speak up because I feel like the level of internal anger is at the boiling point. Certainly we should be directing that collective anger somewhere else but not on each other. So what if your friend is a Trump supporter, or your boss is a Bernie supporter. Who really cares if you love Hillary and hate Cruz? In the end the political process will swallow them all. Certainly the president assumes the face of each party. But laws and bills are passed by The House and the Senate, congress and the Supreme Court. If  I was worried about the value of the country changing to the left or to the right, I would not look to the president first. If that was the case then Obama would have changed more than he did.

     Americans love a good fight. We love an underdog. We are brutal to each other, like siblings fighting in a hot summer station wagon. But wrong us, or attack us, and collectively we are the worst enemy you can face. Our collective energy made us the most envied nation on Earth. Our collective energy put men on the moon and elevated our standard of living to be the best...ever.

     So stop slapping each other around for our differences. Embrace the other side. And like the Matrix, imagine their is no spoon...there is only the reality you make. left or right, black, white, gay or straight. All we have is each other.

In the immortal words of America's most noteworthy speaker of the past 30 years, "Can't we all just get along"?