It’s amazing to me how today’s society has become so clouded in their judgement.  We protest at almost anything that doesn’t fit our own narrative of thinking.  I mean, God forbid someone else have an opinion that doesn’t fit yours.  Isn’t the right of the individual to have their own opinion?  Certainly in our lives at some point we have all experienced something that we did not agree with that others did.  It’s bound to happen hundreds of times in our lifetime.  Used to, we would just brush this stuff off, but today we take a whole new approach.  We boycott, we strike, we avoid, and the list goes on.  Simply put, when we don’t get our way, we just cry about it.

Over the last year or so, America had done more damage that it has good when it comes to boycotting.  We have just about boycotted every business possible when they seem to see something that isn’t inline with what we believe.  The major part of this comes from the presidential election and the presidential campaigns.  There’s no doubt that this past election had to have been one of the more bizarre elections in recent history, if not the most bizarre.  What’s even more amazing is how much we have protested over things not going our way.  We have burned down cities, started riots, enacted violence upon each other, all because something didn’t go our way.  How foolish have we become?  The most amazing part of it all is when we boycott over something before actually knowing all the facts and then it comes out later that what we thought was true was actually false or misconstrued in some way.

This morning I wake up to find out that the American based company L.L. Bean is facing a backlash and boycott because people thought that they were backing the current president elect Donald Trump.  Come to find out, all these people boycotting L.L. Bean jumped to conclusions based on a donation given to the Trump campaign by the granddaughter of one of the companies members.  People misinterpreted it as if the company themselves had made the donation, which is completely false.  In fact, if you look at the company’s history, you’ll quickly find out that L.L. Bean has never in their history endorsed a presidential candidate…ever.

Shawn Gorman, L.L. Bean’s executive chairman, said in a Facebook post, “We are deeply troubled by the portrayal of L.L. Bean as a supporter of any political agenda.  L.L. Bean does not endorse political candidates, take positions on political matters or make political contributions. Simply put, we stay out of politics.”  

This all began when Linda Bean contributed $60,000 to the Making America Great Again LLC.  In response, Grab Your Wallet, a group that advocates boycotting companies that “do business with the Trump family,” added L.L. Bean to its running list of pro-Trump entities.  The fact is that Linda Bean made the donation on behalf of herself and not the L.L. Bean company.  Never the less, people across America have vowed to boycott the company because of this reason.  

But that’s just one of many examples of the foolishness that we are pouring over our great country.  The fact is that no matter what people do, Trump is still going to be President.  It’s inevitable.  He won the Electoral College, he won the Electoral College vote, and is only days away from being sworn into office.  When are we going to grow up and stop this foolishness?  We are doing nothing but hurting our own country.

The one thing that we must do is come together as a nation despite our differences.  If we cannot do that we are doomed to destroy ourselves.  It doesn’t matter your background.  It doesn’t matter the color of your skin, whether your male or female.  It just doesn’t matter.  If we cannot come together as a nation and stand with one another, we will simply ruin this country from within.  We won’t have to worry about some other country or group like ISIS coming over here.  We will have accomplished their goal for them.  

So to America I say, stop the foolishness.  Let’s stand hand in hand and support one another no matter our differences.  America is a great nation that has tons of great people here.  If we can come together we can become greater.  If not, we are doomed to destruction.  United we stand.  Divided we fall.  History has taught us this.  Let us not repeat the mistakes of history.