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I don’t want to gloat on Facebook…But here, on Tumblr, nobody knows who I am, so I will engage in some gloating.  FUCK YEAH OBAMA!!!  Holy crap I am relieved.  I’m so happy, and so excited.  It sucks-because living where I live, I usually feel so alone in my beliefs and my values.  

I believe in marriage equality.  I don’t think our government should ever, EVER be able to dictate who we can and cannot dedicate our lives to.  I think it’s a fucking atrocity to humanity to use the majority vote to deny a minority group equal rights under the law.  I don’t dare ask how you can call yourselves Christians and humiliate and degrade people for being different from you.  It’s an embarrassment.

I believe in reproductive freedom.  I think women have had other people making their decisions for them for LONG ENOUGH and that we should never, ever go back to this horrible place in history in which we are second class citizens and seen as little else but birth vessels.  I like living in a country where I am not considered property just because I happen to own a vagina.  It’s NOT ABOUT “THE BABIES”, so stop hiding behind your religion and admit that you just don’t like the fact that women are not forced to be “punished” for being “sluts”.  There are MILLIONS of babies and children already living in this world-starving, sick, hungry, and abused…and where are the pro-lifers?  Standing outside Planned Parenthood, praying for “the babies”.  Usually, I appreciate irony, but in this case it just makes me sick.

I am DEEP in red territory and I have lots of family, neighbors and friends who are extremely conservative.  I’m a little bit shocked at the crap that’s floating around my Facebook news feed right now.  I had to unsubscribe to 7 acquaintances last night alone.  Some of the highlights (and these are paraphrased):

(((“I’m going to have to learn how to shoot a gun.” “Get your bunkers ready.”  ”Four more years of this bullshit?  I’m going to quit my job and go on food stamps.”  ”Thanks assholes!  Now we can be hood rich for 4 more years.”)))

And there were more.  Lots more.  Calling names and saying shit that seems threatening (I mean, with the ‘bunkers’ and ‘guns’ comments?  REALLY?)  I don’t want to be confrontational, because it’s not worth it, and being a business owner, I have to exercise a little humility and restraint.  I appreciate customers and employees of any political persuasion.  I simply do not understand them, that’s all.

Now, I’m going to go workout and stay OFF facebook until all the vitriolic commentary subsides a little bit, and ENJOY THIS WIN!  

Congrats, President Obama!