This shouldn't be news to anyone, but over the past few weeks, the more I watch the child-like, immature shenanigans of what we call the election year, I keep seeing intolerance rear it's ugly head. And these ideas of intolerance usually come from those who claim to love this country more than anyone else. Somewhere, in their alledged love of America, they lost the idea of what America actually stands for and what we claim to represent in this world.
In this country, half of our political system is built on a foundation of intolerance. It's built on the ideas that anyone who isn't a straight, white, Christian man shouldn't be tolerated. Anyone who believes that feeding the poor and providing quality, affordable education to our citizens is more important than giving massive, unpaid for tax cuts to the wealthy shouldn't be tolerated. And anything that represents change, even improvements, to our current straight, white, male dominated society structure, should not be tolerated.