When it arrived in the mail, I was excited to try it on and I sent a photo of myself in it to my kids who enjoyed seeing me have such fun with a thing like a cap. But then, my husband said, “Where do you plan to wear that? It could get you in trouble.” I said, "I am going to wear it, but maybe I’ll pick and choose where." Like maybe to one of our grandkids’ baseball games, or maybe to a picnic among our friends at church, but maybe not to our neighborhood Safeway, or in the car, where other drivers could see it, or to the airport, or on a plane, or on the Metro, or in D.C., or to a neighborhood social.
The list kept growing as I thought about it. This was three weeks ago. Now that I’ve seen the foul things that have
happened to Sarah Sanders and other Trump cabinet members, I am even more
conflicted about the hat than I was before.
Is wearing the hat provocative, or simply an exercise of
my First Amendment Rights? Is it asking
for trouble or simply expressing my approval for a political party and its duly
elected leader? Am I willing to let
other people deprive me of fun because they scare me? Am I brave enough to wear the hat and take
what comes, knowing we all have to be true to what we believe in spite of the
consequences? Would my mother approve? The last being a question I think we should
all ask ourselves regardless of our age about matters big and small.
If I don’t wear the hat and allow the Trump haters to
intimidate me, how long will it be before it is unacceptable to wear a cross
around your neck, or a St. Benedict medal, or Miraculous Medal of our Blessed
Mother? What if that too offends them
and identifies me with a pro-life position that believes baby killing should be
against the law because it offends God.
No one I know right now has any kind of political bumper
sticker on their car that supports Trump because they fear damage will be done
to their vehicle in a parking lot when they are out of sight. Unlike other election years, they didn’t even
put them on their car BEFORE he was elected and with the viciousness of the
left these days you’d be foolish to have one.
However, someone can readily get away with damaging the paint on your
car without giving away their identity, but they risk arrest if they actually
assault your person. The consequences
they may face come only after you’ve been harmed and you have to ask yourself
is putting my safety at risk the wise thing to do.
There are things Liberals display that most certainly
offend me, but it wouldn’t occur to me to physically attack them over it. Here are a few:
Actually, when I checked the internet, it was immediately
clear what the left says is so vulgar and disgusting they aren’t fit to publish
on this blog. I am left with just these
two which I certainly don't agree with, but will put up here,
With Justice Kennedy’s announcement of retirement last
week, the rhetoric immediately cranked up another 10 degrees in the MSM. This country will be great again, one Supreme
Court Justice at a time, one tax cut at a time, one less regulation at a time, one
prayer at a time, and one baseball cap at a time. Where’s yours?
Mine says make America created equal. Keyes please 2020.
ReplyDeleteBe brave. Wear the hat. Where I work many people, especially men, come in with MAGA shirts or hats and have bumper stickers on their vehicles. I always tell them that I like their shirt or hat and they give me a big smile or thumbs up in return.
ReplyDeleteI live in NY so I'd never be so rash. But if you don't live in Liberally Tolerant territory, you'll possibly get some thumbs up. As PF would say: "discern"!
ReplyDeleteMy wife wore that hat and someone asked if they could grab her....
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