Newsletter for October 18, 2024

Two Weeks to Go: My Heart's Tug of War with Hope and Fear

I sit here 17 days from the Presidential election, and I am feeling both fearful and hopeful at the same time.

After spending the last year posting about who I am in favor of I continually hear backlash! I get that everyone gets an opinion but why, if someone doesn’t like what I put on my page, would they leave rude and negative comments? I would never in a million years go on another person’s page who has differing views and leave unnecessary comments.

Where did our right to believe what we want to believe go? I remember my parents not that long ago enjoying friends’ company who had different opinions than them and they still got along.

My thoughts are that social media has taken away all forms of manners and morals. Who cares? No one cares anymore, love of neighbor is gone. If you have differing ideas, then you are now an outcast!

Since admitting that I am an alcoholic over 18 years ago, I have learned so many things. I will not list them in this newsletter, or it would be pages and pages long. But one of the biggest takeaways is that everyone is allowed to believe what they want to believe and support whatever they want and the only thing that is important is not to pick up a drink. Hence, I haven’t had a drink since joining my fellowship.

Why I am bringing this up is that in my little club fellowship (with millions of members) we talk about a higher power who I call God and God is the most important thing in our lives. God is at the forefront of our lives. Most give credit for their sobriety to God. I may go one step further and say Jesus is the one that took away my obsession to drink.

With that said, in the world we are all living, whether you are a member of a program or not, God is in charge. God knows all and we are living today in darkness.

I have been talking a lot with my husband JF about this election and why we are supporting President Donald J. Trump, and we have many reasons and the most important is that we believe that his values match ours.

We both love God and our country; we grew up saying the Pledge of Allegiance and learned that we lived in the best country in the world. Times have changed and people no longer love God as much as they did, and they don’t really care about our country. It is more about loving ourselves, weare so self-centered today. Feed our little souls with materialism and goods. We know longer want to fill ourselves with love and community.

Yes, President Trump can be mean and crass, but we also believe that he is passionate. I am very passionate and when in I’m passionate about something what comes out of my mouth can be colorful. I get that every human is like this in some way. We all say things that later we wish we could take back, but we can’t go back all we can do is move forward. Since the President’s assassination attempts, I believe he has become a humble man. He loves America and what it stands for.

So many women are supporting Kamala Harris because of her abortion stance. It kind of confuses me. President Trump wants to leave the decision up to the States so that it is no longer a federal issue and women don’t like that. They want it to be a universal law. But some states in the Bible Belt feel much differently than people feel - let’s say in California. I think this is fair. There are more ways today to terminate a baby than there were when I was young.

Does human life really matter?

I have a conundrum, is it ok to kill babies and have wars all over the world where again innocent people are dying? Is it ok to kill any baby at any time and is it ok to have wars all over where women, men, children are killed for no reason but for oil or religious views? It is a fact that when President Trump was in office there were no new wars. Is that a coincidence or is it that leaders around the world respected him?

As you can see, I have never been a sheep and I don’t believe everything I read or watch but I can tell you I will not vote for a cackling idiot that could never meet with Putin or Kim and be taken seriously. I truly believe she is a threat to our democracy.

If you do not agree with me that is ok. But I will never understand that people support someone that was not even voted to her position. She took over Joe Biden’s post and did nothing to earn her Presidential nominee position, but from reading and listening I think this is how Kamala Harris rolls. She hasn’t worked for anything; she just fits the box that the Democrats want to be filled.

Enough of my babbling. I am fearful that if she were to win so many things in this country will get worse.

If history shows us anything it is that 4 years ago life was easier. People were still managing to get along. Groceries were not as expensive and neither were houses, gas, and everything else we purchase at stores. We were living in a country that 2+2=4! There weren’t wars all over the globe like there are today. Peace was had by all. Was life perfect? No! But we weren’t living in the insanity we are living in today.

Kamala Harris is supported by the machine that will not come out and say who they are even though we can all guess and assume who is in charge and the outcome of the Biden Harris office is ugly to say the least. It is so dark!

I for one don’t want to live in the dark anymore I want light!

If you disagree you are allowed your opinion but please send me your thoughts via email elizabeth@elizabethchance.com. Please no more negative comments on my social media pages.

Bottom line you do you boo boo.

God Bless you and this Country!

Until next time keep getting busy living sober.

XO

Elizabeth