No, I'm not a crybaby

This has been making the rounds of social media today, 11 months after the 2016 presidential election.

I commented I couldn't agree more. Upon which I was called a crybaby, and told to get over it. And moreover, that the above-referenced clip was taken out of context.

There is nothing out of context when a person, especially an elected leader or candidate for same, mocks another human being. 

I have lived through the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. Some resonated more than others. 

I've never been a crybaby. And I'm not a crybaby now.

I'm aghast at the pass our current president received to be handed the reins of our nation's leadership despite his dehumanizing behavior. Mocking the disability of a reporter was neither the beginning nor the end of his offense to decency. 

That said, I believe we will never move forward as long as progressives continue ridiculing those who voted for the current president, and conservatives continue ridiculing those who oppose him. I concede the analysis of the vagaries of the 2016 election to political scientists and sociologists who might someday reason its complexities with historical perspective. 

In the meantime, how then shall we live? 

Yes, there are political issues about which I care deeply, particularly the fragility of our global climate and the vulnerability inherent in our health care system. On these and other matters, I disagree, in some instances strongly, with the leanings of our current president.

However, nothing troubles my soul more than when our leaders degrade those who are adversely affected by their partisan decisions as if they are somehow lesser citizens. (To wit, the exultant posturing of boastful vainglory in the Oval Office each time the presidential pen strikes a blow against one or another segment of our citizenry. See below. It's not as if they're creating national parks or celebrating a moon landing.) 

This has happened on the state level in Wisconsin (upon the passage of Act 10, when teachers and public servants were castigated as adversaries of good government) and occurs repeatedly on the national stage.

If you can mock one reporter's disability, you can create whatever "reality" you wish while categorizing anything opposed to your ideology as "fake" and those who stand opposed as subhuman.