Let’s stop bickering amongst ourselves, take on the establishment

To those who write wanting us to calm down and not complain, I have several comments.

Your candidate did not win the majority of the votes — I was raised in a house by Republicans who stressed that the majority was one more than half.

As far as making posters and defaming your “man,” I was subject to many mean-spirited posters over the years of Barack Obama’s presidency. On one memorable weekend in San Francisco, these posters had the president with a Hitler-like mustache; others had him labeled and pictured as a monkey.

As for protesting, perhaps I am mistaken, but weren’t the tea party folks conservatives? If so, they protested a great deal during the early years of Obama’s presidency. Then they sold out to the moneyed elite.

Many voters, but not all, were angry at what they considered being short-changed by the system. Angry people rarely think logically and/or sanely. It’s the nature of the beast.

As long as we bicker amongst ourselves — red vs. blue — for crumbs off the table, the powerful elite, (re: “the establishment”) will continue to get their way as more money continues to trickle up to them.

This story was originally published December 5, 2016 at 9:17 PM with the headline "Let’s stop bickering amongst ourselves, take on the establishment."