I just had the best idea. And I do not mean this sarcastically at all. So many people in America are talking very negatively since the election. I have been, too. It seems like a stream, not a thread, of hatred is enveloping everyone.
No one in the grocery store is discussing what the Trump administration’s policy will be about Puerto Rico’s statehood. Nor fracking in New York and elsewhere. People are talking about hating one or more groups of people (LGBTQ, women, african-americans, whites, latinos, anyone from another country who doesn’t look like they came here from northern or western Europe two hundred years ago). Other people are talking about hating the people who hate the above people. Republicans are mad at Democrats. Democrats are mad at Republicans. Lot of people are mad at the millennials. People are mad at rural people, city people, suburban people, human people.
But it many ways, it seems voters are afraid of anyone who is different than they are.
What about DNA tests? They are ALWAYS a surprise. So here’s my idea.
Let’s use DNA tests where you spit in a tube and send it off in the mail, to bring our country together. It’s hard to hate a group when you see that you have X percent DNA from that group.
DNA might be the solution to America’s current unrest.
saneteachers 
I’ve watched the USA from afar most of my life, and the way the Dream is unravelling is a nightmare. How about everyone taking a deep breath and starting to prepare for… Thanksgiving?
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Great idea. Now we can go after turkeys, lol.
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Haha looks like we both posted solutions on our blog today. This could only mean one thing…Paul Barb 2020
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I’m off to read yours now. Paul Barb 2020 !!
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Of course it’s really Barb Paul.
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We’ll have to bring in a focus group and ask them what they prefer.
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But the focus groups will be in the US. Oh no, never mind. The US doesn’t seem to like female leaders.
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They also don’t seem to like focussing.
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haha
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So you’re saying instead of the RNC and the DNC we should all be part of the DNA. Hmm. I like it.
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Haha that’s a good one!
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You are right! Not only in America this election has become the object of discussion and pros and cons, here in italy there is a never ending discussion about. I think it isn’t a question of American DNA but of the bigger wide human world DNA. Everyone is envolved in analysing and making connections with his own country and possibly trying to learn something which can help and be applied at Home. But, it seems to be a hard job and experience isn’t taken into any consideration!! Bye, bye
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Thank you for reading this post and commenting! You are right about the larger world view.
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I like it. Being a mutt myself and proud of it, I’d love to be with some people who think they are the chosen race whatever that is when they find out they have a case of mixed race themselves.
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Nothing is ever as it appears. And if we can be more informed and take a good look at ourselves, it can only be a step forward. I’m getting mine done. Who knows what I’ll find? Thanks for reading this. SOMETHING has to be done.
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I’ve done many people in our family including myself once with AncestryDNA and also with 23and me.
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Did they hold any surprises? My relatives have done some of the tests and there were definitely some surprises. It’s also interesting, that even with siblings, there can be differences.
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We got confirmation of rumors. Census data had my great grandmother’s family labeled as different races on different years of census data. The DNA tests confirmed that info.
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I was just thinking this, but for a different reason. If my son were to discover that he was part Native American, part Eskimo, part Latino, a descendant of an African slave, part of any minority, part of any discriminated-against group, etc., he’d qualify for a lot more college grants and scholarships.
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That’s Also very true. We were always thought that my maternal grandfather’s family was from the Netherlands. My mother would visit there to go back to her roots. Doing my genealogy, I found that the entire line was from Germany, chAnged their first names to anglicize them. Living in the USA during WWI and WWII, there was a lot of anti-German sentiment. But I haven’t done any of the side branches. It’s so interesting to do.
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The obvious irony is that haters might be hating themselves.
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We could go on for hours about hatred. Is it caused by self-loathing? By the unknown or unfamiliar? By past experiences?
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I’d say it’s caused by a combination of everything you mentioned + how we were raised + other unknown factors (past-life experiences?).
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Hey! I wanna be on that 2020 ticket too. The bumper stickers could read… American Paul/Barb/Canadian Paul… American Paul first because… well… just because. 😀
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Or, Paul Squared Barb Pants. Hmmmm that didn’t come out the way I wanted. I was going for a play on Sponge Bob .
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