If my candidate Milky B doesn't win, we plan to run once more in 2020. He'll probably fire me again but that's OK. We've been open about things, and he's seeing other campaign managers. As an outsider it feels like this election seems to have stirred up a lot of highly charged anger in America.
Was this just down to who the two candidates were? Or is it revealing of some deeper issues in society? Things are very mixed in Britain right now, but I'm sure we'll get things back to a more level place. For me this is about what it always is, moderate rational people (left or right) standing up to the extremists on either side.
They maybe noisy, threatening and even violent, but they are a minority. I think the most scary thing is if we allow people like that, to intimidate the rest of us into silence. In my idealistic youth I went on an anti racism March in Brussels. There had been some scary Nazi type violence at the time. People I worked with thought it was foolish, perhaps it was. But I had to reply, things like that had happened before in Europe, and there were not enough people willing to challenge it, and for me that made things much worse later on.
The March was fine, there were many different nationalities, including a lot of young German people. I'd been very nervous, and I thought that was very heartening. I'd never experienced anything like it. There were quite a few more peaceful protests, and the racist violence diminished. I'm not a protestor or political person really, but I think sometimes we all hope someone will do something, when that someone could be us.
After the horrible murder of one our MPs Jo Cox, in the street earlier this year, I think there have been some substantial efforts to dial down the hate, and tone down the language here. Just for the record, as terrible as her murder was (the idiot shot and stabbed her to death) a 77 year old unarmed man tackled the thug and tried to save her. He was seriously injured but miraculously survived. The majority of people want to live decently. The idiots are few but make a lot of noise , and for the most part usually end up harming themselves.
Good luck today, and vote Milky B.
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