Creating enemies out of our neighbors is not the solution to our problems, but it is a way to win elections… Hitler figured this out and it appears that mainstream media has too.
I’ve seen people canceling their Netflix service because the CEO Reed Hastings supported Kamala Harris.
As a business owner, many businesses I use support candidates that I can’t entirely agree with. If I canceled everyone and everything I disagreed with, I would have no services, no place to shop, and I would have to go live off the grid.
I have close friends and neighbors who I love dearly who support Trump. I have close friends and neighbors who support Kamala Harris. I don’t like the division that politics creates. I don’t like the economic disruption of business because someone or some entity doesn’t bow down and agree to my every whim. It is small. It is petty. It is tiresome.
RESPECTING other’s opinions and beliefs is crucial to have a free and peaceful society. In Corrie Ten Boom’s book The Hiding Place, she talks about how in Germany, one day, everything seemed peaceful, and then one night, she woke up to find that friends and neighbors were being thrown into the icy river. Whole families were destroyed over hate – hate that was created because Hitler didn’t like that the Germans were defeated in the First World War.
Here is a short excerpt from a post on AnneFrank.org:
“By blaming the Jews for the defeat, Hitler created a stereotypical enemy. In the 1920s and early 1930s, the defeated country was still in a major economic crisis. According to the Nazis, expelling the Jews was the solution to the problems in Germany. This political message and the promise to make Germany economically strong again won Hitler the elections in 1932. After he had come to power, the laws and measures against the Jews increased all the time. It ended in the Shoah, the Holocaust, the murder of six million European Jews.” https://www.annefrank.org/…/why-did-hitler-hate-jews/
It is beyond time that we cancel “cancel culture”. It is time that as a country we look to find solutions instead of bitching about people and problems. We need to turn off our televisions and our phones, and turn toward our neighbors, not away from them. If history has taught us anything, it has taught us we will never all agree on the same things. And if we turn to violence to solve our problems, we don’t solve anything at all. We just create new problems.