The real false equivalency

I know it’s only been a few days, but are you by chance starting to feel guilty about your vote for president?

This is the first line of an article written by Erika D. Smith where she basically calls out every Trump supporter for any and all actions (real or imagined - past, present, or future) and demands that they should be "holding themselves responsible".

You had your reasons for voting for Trump and for cherry-picking what you wanted to believe about him, based on his sketchy personal history and the divisive drivel of his campaign speeches. But by making that choice, you also have unleashed a fusillade of hate, as he goes about appointing semi-competent ideologues to egg on the racists in our midst and do all the things you thought Trump would never do.

Of course, a vote for Trump is a vote for racism and of course the "semi-competent ideologues" who will also promote bigotry and hate. (As if the alternative was any better)

So let's start  with the basic concept that much of America does not see calling Islamic Terror "Islamic" as Islamophobic. They don't see making tangible steps to prevent terrorism as Islamophobic. They don't see opposition and disgust with the protests and cop killings promoted by Black Lives Matter as racism. They don't see supporting the police as racist. They don't see wanting to slow down the dangerously high levels of illegal immigration as racism. They don't see a vote against Hillary Clinton as being sexist. They don't believe a man who's own daughter is Jewish as being anti-semetic (because the left says so).

When your child comes home from school recounting how his Latina classmate with undocumented parents left the cafeteria crying because other students were chanting “build the wall.” Or when someone spray paints a swastika and “Make America Great Again” on the side of your Jewish neighbor’s house. Or when a transgender co-worker gets attacked by men shouting “Trump” while walking home one night.

You are responsible for that, too, because you helped put Trump in the powerfully influential position of president of the United States.

This get's to the heart of the matter here folks. Look at all of these supposed events (real or imagined - past, present, or future) and how much it must really really really hurt someone's feelings. Apparently all Trump supporters should now be held responsible for any insensitive actions  (real or imagined - past, present, or future) committed by any of the 320 million Americans.

So I ask... is the left willing to take their fair "responsibility" for the actions of those who they implicitly support by political association? Are they losing sleep over the neighborhoods burned down by the protests?  Are they going to confessional every time a cop gets shot in the name of Black Lives Matters? Do they hold themselves responsible for the massive amounts of  world wide death and destruction that lays in the wake of those terrorists who kill in the name of Islam? Are they willing to take the same political responsibility for their own votes as they expect others to?

In a nutshell... what you have here is a group of obscenely politically correct nut jobs who want to attack (as being insensitive bigots) anyone willing to stand up and against violent protests, murder, and terrorism. All while simultaneously demanding that those sins committed by those you defend, be ignored, because addressing it apparently hurts someone's feelings.

So folks. You want to hold Trump voters responsible for the potential bad things that might take place under his watch? Then you must take responsibility for the bad things that "has" happened under the watch of our current President. That includes the continued rise of homegrown Islamic terror and all the innocent deaths associated with it. That also includes all of the violence promoted by Black Lives Matters, including the burning of neighborhoods, the execution of police officers, and the recent rise is violent crimes in cities across America.

When you accept the responsibility for the violence, destruction, and death promoted by that which you defend...  then you can go after Trump supporters for any insensitive behavior that might hurt feelings.  I would even let you naively pretend that one isn't any worse than the other.