Focus on Love not Hate

I have to get something off my chest.  It's something I say a lot but I haven't written about it in a while so I feel it's time.  I hate Donald Trump.  I hate him so much.  There I said it - I do admit to feeling a bit better.  

I just don't get it.  I don't understand how a person so full of hate and bigotry be so far ahead in the polls.  Do people not see that there's not a fully working brain in that head? How else can you explain away his comments regarding the horrible tragedy in Orlando?  Thoughts, prayers, love - that's what everyone else is sending the families and loved ones of those involved.  Not Trump though. 

He congratulates himself for being "right about ISIS."  Funny thing is that this wasn't an ISIS attack.  The FBI and Homeland Security has confirmed this.  The shooter has been on the watchlist for quite some time, but he acted alone out of hate. Much the same hate that Trump is displaying when posting such a heartless message in the wake of senseless tragedy.  He does go on to say that he's planning to outlaw "all immigrants from nations that have a history with terrorism."  Do you know how many nations that really is?  Pretty much all of them.  Not to mention, the shooter wasn't an immigrant at all.  He was a US citizen that was allowed to buy an assault rifle legally even though he was on a watchlist.  But why consider banning weapons and weapon sales like this at all, when you can attack immigrants and an entire group of people that had nothing to do with the attack? Therein lies his strategy, I suppose. 

Then there's the matter of his "problem" today with the Washington Post, one of the most well-respected papers in journalism.  Trump has decided to "revoke their credentials" for "phony" reports. First of all, how exactly is that going to work?  This isn't communist Russia. You can't stop them from reporting just by saying so.  Second of all, he sounds like a 5 year old who's angry that someone took his toy.  Honestly?!  How is this man going to be a respected President who can stand up to other nations, when he's so easily offended by journalists? And most importantly, how is he going to be a president when he can't even be a decent human being?  Isn't some bit of compassion necessary?  He's clearly lacking that, as well as a host of other skills to get the job done.

Ok, now after that rant. I'm done.  I want so very much to not give him any more screen time or air time that he already gets - which isn't deserved. I want to focus on the good and not the bad and hope that by doing so, the world will become a little nicer. So I'm vowing now to follow the words of Trump's polar opposite - Lin Manuel Miranda.  "Love is Love is Love is Love is Love." That's what I'm focusing on and that's what will get us through this difficult time. Focus on the love, and Hate (and hateful people like Trump) will never win.