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I shall now tell a story that summarizes my response to this let us all come together in unity that is said every time a Democrat wins. I don't come across particularly well in this story, but, well, I'm not a particularly nice or good person no matter how hard my parents tried.
I attended a very small high school. How small? There were under 100 people and the school was grades 7-12. There were 13 people in my graduating class. By the by, out of those 13, 12 went to college. Of the 12 that went to college, 9 of us have graduate degrees.
The most successful one of us? The guy who barely graduated and who went off to be a plumber and who started his own plumbing business and who was a millionaire by early 30's and employs like 75 people now but that's another story.
I've told this story before but like that will stop me. We moved to the area right before my freshman year of high school and it was a very difficult transition. Nearly everyone else in the school had been going to school together since kindergarten and cliques were fierce.
Given how small the school was, classes were held with two grades together. Seventh/eighth; freshman/sophomore; junior/senior. My class was 8 girls and 5 boys. You can imagine the stress that caused. Looking back, it's all very interesting. It was hell to live through.
One girl in my class was friends with the Cool Kids in the year above us. She very much snubbed the rest of us in our year and bullied me specifically. I sat there and watched for three years as she did not realize the grave she was digging for herself. I wasn't the only one.
Senior year started and she waltzed in expecting to be queen of the school. None of the rest of us in our class spoke to her. Well, that's not true, if there was a need to interact with her, we did, but other than that, nothing. No eating lunch. No chatter in the halls.
It took her a good three weeks to realize that she was all alone. The kicker was when she decided to throw a party and no one showed up. Her mother was in a Bible study group with my mother and her mother told my mother how awful we were all being and how cruel and on and on.
My mother came to me and started to lecture me about it. I told my mother why should I be friends with her. She'd spent three years not only ignoring me but making my life a living hell. The bullying had been so bad our sophomore year that she was suspended for three days.
I pointed out that in the three years prior, she never once invited me to a party. In fact, she made sure to let me know that I was not invited and to not show up. Now when she had no one else she wanted to be friends? No. Not ever in the history of ever.
I wouldn't be mean to her. I wouldn't bully her. But I wasn't going to be her friend. I wasn't going to sit by her in lunch. I wasn't going to her party. I wouldn't do that because she didn't want to be my friend because she realized she was wrong. She wanted to rule the school.
I also pointed out that she had had three years to make friends in our class and not only hadn't she done that, she'd made a point to snub us all. Now we were supposed to be the good Christians and just pretend all that never happened? No. No, I wouldn't do it.
Mommy, to her credit, listened to me and accepted what I said. She did stress that I had to be polite to her, because manners are important, but that, no, I did not have to be her friend. And then Mommy, because Mommy is awesome, told her mother what I said and backed me up.
Now, all that happened after that was the principal sitting us all down and giving us a lecture on how we were bad Christians (it was a Christian school) and how we had to be kind even if she had been cruel and we had to be the better people because Christ.
That had nothing at all to do with her parents being major contributors to the school, of course. Not a thing. I hope the reason I am bringing this up is clear. I've been through this I've been awful to you for years but now you must be nice to me because I say so before.
This you racist Nazis must come together to support us is the same thing that girl tried to pull, just larger and stupider. It's also nothing new. It happens every time the Dems win. Every time. I could write the stories in my sleep at this point. So could everyone else.
What is going on right now is a more political, and I think I mentioned stupider, version of that girl being Queen Bitch Mean Girl for three years and then being stunned that she didn't get to just rule as she assumed she should. She was a teenager. She didn't know any better.
What's going on right now is ostensible adults being all open mouthed shocked that their words have consequences. Or, as I said to a former boss who was trying to get me to come back after I quit, do you think insulting me is going to make me do what you want? Really? Really?
Should we have been Mean Girl bitchy back to her? No, not really. We didn't have to be besties but I knew the pain of being ostracized and even as a teenager I should have known better than to do it to someone else. But forgiveness comes after repentance and she never repented.
She just wanted everyone to pretend she did nothing wrong. That is exactly what most of the people calling for unity are doing. Handwave handwave the last 30+/- years of name calling and How To Talk To Your Racist Relatives at Thanksgiving articles and pick your favorite.
Obligatory the Right does it too acknowledgement here. That throat clearing aside, I am no more inclined to listen to those on the Left saying how they want unity when they refuse to acknowledge how awfully they acted than I was to be that girl's friend.
I had no obligation besides basic civility then and I have none now. I hate that life is like high school but if the analogy is there, I'm going to beat that horse into its component atoms. tl;dr - I've been through this before and it hasn't gotten less stupid since high school.
