i'm tired

I guess it's Thursday, isn't it? Well here are my thoughts.

I think I'm going to just check out of the blog reading world for awhile.
I'm really really really tired of reading post after post about politics and what people think is right and fair and moral and religion vs state and all that. Really tired.

I don't want to hear any more about what you think the path of our country will be now that the presidential decision has been made. It's done, and only time will tell whether your vote was for the "right" or the "wrong" candidate regardless of whether they ended up in the White House or not.

I don't want to hear any more takes on who it's okay to marry and who it's not and why. We've all heard both sides and your rant about it one way or the other really doesn't make any difference. We've all heard it. We all know it.

I really don't like reading blogs like that.

Our country is certainly not changing overnight and it's going to take a lot of good and bad steps both forward and backward to get our nation back on the right road of recovery, both economically as well as this tricky path of religion meets government meets ethics meets real lives.

There are no right answers that fit everyone. There just aren't. There are no simple solutions.
And when we think we have the right answer for everyone, that we have the right solutions for this day and age and the people and issues we live amongst... we are being just as foolish and ignorant as we accuse the people we're "fighting against" of being.

Plus, I really just don't like reading blogs like that.

Regardless of what each of us believe in, I think it's ridiculous to snap a picture of yourself flipping "them" off with your wedding ring. What exactly does that say?

Regardless of who each of us supported in this election, I think it's immature and disappointing to make a game out of seeing who can come up with the most "creative" (disrespectful and twisted) uses for the campaign paraphanalia of the losing candidate. I mean really; aren't we more adult than that?

I'm just tired of it all. I had hoped that once the ugliness of the campaign was over and we got through election day in one piece, once that was behind us, our country could move forward, and we could go back to good bloggy reads like our kids who chopped their own bangs off and the pile of leaves they jumped in and the funny thing that happened to you at the mall and the 813 attempts at Christmas pictures and just NO MORE POLITICS!

I understand all of this is part of history. That these are very big parts of National history as well as being things each of us might stand for, passions, causes that might be important to us. I understand if you feel it's a big enough part of your life that you have to write about it. But when I see it on every stinkin' blog I turn to... even if it's saying the same exact words I would have typed myself... it makes me loathe the whole "argument" whatever it is, the whole issue, the fact that it's always in my face. I don't read political blogs for a reason. I read blogs for enjoyment, not for getting politically riled up or watching people feed off of each other in that realm.

It just all ends up making me sad.

So I'm thinking I may steer clear of a few of these heavy blogs for awhile. Or maybe I should just ask them to send out a notice when their posts are on a political diet.
I get frustrated when I like a blogger and their usual blogging and then unfortunately get turned off by a few too many righteous political posts.
And please note that righteousness is rampant on both sides of all the issues. It has nothing to do with "sides" here.

What are your thoughts on the plethera of political posts on good old fashioned "mommy blogs" as of late?