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| The Hippie Revolution was going to ruin America as we know it. |
In a moment of clarity the other night, I came to a
startling realization. In our current society, what really bothers me is not immorality,
commercials on TV, political gouging, or so-called progressive social adjustments.
What bothers me is the criminal strata that festers in our world. I was
thinking about what I read and see in the news and our country’s current
fascination with transgender bathrooms when I made this connection.
Before I go further, let me define what I mean by crime.
This term to me takes in every sort of illegal behavior from international
swindling to petty theft and everything in between. It’s the 17 year old kid
going through your car’s glove compartment to the accountant bilking cents on
the dollar from clients.
It’s the unscrupulous car salesman to the serial rapist.
It’s that immoral preacher who preys on their congregation to the person who
makes me keep my doors and windows locked on my vehicle and house.
Recently I watched a video someone made of a beggar sitting
alongside the road in a 3rd world country. A motorcyclist stopped
and the man pulled out his wallet to give an offering. A second motorbike drove
by and a man snatched the wallet from his hand. The bike driver leaped off the
bike and gave chase on foot. The beggar threw off his ragged cover, hopped on
the vacant bike and sped off.
The now bike-less driver ran back and pulling out his cell
phone, tried to call the police, only to lose his phone to yet another
motorcyclist speeding behind him. It was organized crime for sure and the Good
Samaritan was left without anything he had when he arrived but his clothing. Do
you think this guy was wondering about transgender bathrooms at this instant?
His dilemma was far more pressing and that is my point.
In so many ways I think we as Americans get manipulated and
steered into getting upset over things that really don’t matter. As a prime
example, we are told Bud-Lite is the beer to drink and we buy it, or Miller,
Coors, etc., even though it is recognizably an inferior product. People
actually get in fights over this very thing. However, their advertising dollars
are so shrewdly spent that by golly, Budweiser can rebrand as “America” for
the summer and it becomes patriotic to drink the stuff. Never mind that good
old Bud is owned by a foreign country.
We get in a major tiff over Bruce Jenner having a sex change
and which bathroom transgender people may use and totally ignore the fact that
no one looks at each other in our bathrooms and cross-dressers and transgender
people go into a stall, close the door, do their business, and leave just like
they always have and nothing has or will change in that regard. Yet now it’s a
major issue of perversion and people are all slap your face upset over it? Really?
I can’t remember the last time I made eye contact with
another human in a bathroom and as far as I know, none of them have open
stalls. They are private areas where we take care of a bodily function and
leave. Heck, I don’t talk to other people in the bathroom either. My only
concern when I enter a public bathroom is if someone is going to rob me and the
sign on the door will not change whether this happens or not.
I hate crime. I hate perverts. I hate the way drugs have
come into this country by invitation and I really hate how there are so many
people trying to get what I worked for - for free. The often bogus phone calls I get where
someone is attempting to access my bank account “for charity” makes me wish I
could push a button and permanently mark the person on the other end as a
thief. One guy told me he was an IT professional and I told him “No you are
not, I am.” He proceeded to use the most profane and foul language directed at
me and my mother and slammed the phone down. All I got out of it was the
satisfaction of calling him out.
It is time to quit being told what we think is bad and do a
little sorting on our own. What really matters? What is truly important in our
lives? Is it transgender bathrooms? Not to me. I lived in a 3rd
World country where men and women freely use the same bathroom and I saw
nothing and surely didn’t get a sexual thrill out of it. I did my business and
left, just like everyone else. Why is it in this country that if it even
remotely involves the genitals, it is vulgar and forbidden and yet we feast on
violence like it is dessert? I think we have it backwards.
If this country became as polarized against criminals and
less worried about stupid distractive social change, we could make a young
criminal think 3 times before they headed down that path. Somehow, we have
demonized using the bathroom and made it a perversion and all around the world,
people simply take care of business and everyone ignores them.
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