The Election Is Over, Can We Start Being Nice To Each Other?

Today’s election will decide the leader of our country for the next four years. All the votes haven’t been counted yet and the election results are still being calculated, but for what I want to say…it doesn't matter who wins.

After this 500-billion dollar debacle is all said-and-done can we, as the American people, go back to treating one another with a little respect and common decency?

Look, no matter what happens we’re all going to wake up tomorrow morning and have to live our lives with the decisions made by that majority vote of our country. If Barrack Obama stays in office, if Mitt Romney moves in, or if Roseanne Barr comes out of nowhere to steal the election, the decision will be made and we’ll all have to live with it.

I would love nothing more than to have a President that pulls down 70-80% of the votes in an election so more people would feel like “their guy (or gal) won.” But the way our two-party system is set up I don’t see that happening anytime in the near future. So we, again, get a President that less than half the country voted for and the other half will be spewing venom about the outcome.

Will it help anything? No.

Will it change anything? No.

Will it make anyone feel better or make our leaders do a better job? No.

But will it still happen? Yes.

I hate to be the one that has to remind everyone that when the votes are counted in an election, it’s done. The negativity and hate-mongering of this campaign season has sunk to an all time low and I, for one, am sick of it.

You know what makes our country great? The people living in it.

So here’s what we all need to do, tomorrow you need to go and be the best person you can be. (Well, I guess we should do it every day, not just tomorrow)

No matter if you feel like you “win” or “loose” the election, go be a decent human being. Say something nice to a co-worker, hold a door for the person behind you, tell someone you love them, buy the coffee for the person behind you, call a family member ‘just because’, give someone a genuine compliment….just go be the person you wish everyone else would be.

That’s the country I want to live in, the one where its people stand up for and respect one another, regardless of who is in charge.

Now cheer up. (If you need a little help here is a teacup pig in a little pink hat.)