Petty, childish crap …

It’s not unusual to be upset by an election when your candidate loses.  But I’ve never seen such childish and spiteful behavior by supposed adults after this latest one. 

It’s one thing to protest something by taking to the streets. Hell, I did that myself following the Kent State shootings when I was in college.  It would be the height of hypocrisy for me now to be against protest marches.

Still, it’s quite another to engage in what I can only describe as chickenshit stuff – petty, pointless and vindictive crap simply because you didn’t get your way.  It’s like an undisciplined brat screaming and throwing things because mom won't let them have Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs for breakfast.

You don’t expect behavior like this from adults. However, now a day doesn’t go by without a story about a jackass going ballistic and verbally – and sometimes physically – assaulting people that nutjob blames for having anything to do with Trump.

Recently Ivanka Trump, her family, and some of their cousins were boarding a JetBlue flight. Some jerk – another passenger – stood up and started publicly berating her about her father.  He did this in front of Ivanka, her husband and the kids, until he was removed from the flight.  The jerk’s husband on the same flight tweeted about it praising him for chasing down the Trump family to harass them, with the hashtag #banalityofevil. 

Yeah, that was a real act of bravery.     

Artists have sent letters to Ivanka telling her to remove their art – which she purchased and as such owns – from the walls of her home, as a sign of their displeasure with the policies of her father. One posted a note to her saying that seeing her next to his art embarrassed him.

Again, how brave.  Especially after they’ve gotten her money. 

The DC Metro System, which in the past featured the face of the incoming President on special inaugural day rail passes, this year only used a picture of the White House.  I suppose that’s to show their distaste for the incoming President.

Mind you, this is a taxpayer-funded system.   

A variety of celebrities are now publicly refusing to perform at Trump’s inauguration events. The list includes many who haven’t even been invited to perform.  And of course we also have fashion designers who say they won’t design clothes for the women in the Trump family to demonstrate their opposition to anything or anyone related to Trump. 

These are all meaningless acts.  Petty, vindictive and childish.  And to no purpose.     

The only time I can remember actions this childish was when Bill Clinton’s staffers, upset by the election of George W. Bush, intentionally damaged White House computer keyboards, removing the “W” keys on their way out so new Bush staffers couldn’t use them.

Maybe spiteful behavior is something in the liberal Democrat DNA. I don’t know. 

I can only speak for myself, but I voted less for Trump than I did to force dramatic change in government.  Trump was simply the vehicle to send the message that I wanted responsible adults in charge of things instead of pie-in-the-sky academics and perpetual apparatchiks mucking about. I wanted playtime to end, in other words, and new people – grownups with real-world business experience – in their place to make that happen. 

For far too long we’ve indulged, and as a consequence enabled, the whiners and complainers in our society and allowed them to make the rules.  We’ve created an entire class of pampered, petty tyrants who have no manners, no decency and no respect for the rights of others. The only thing they believe in is their right to do whatever they want, wherever they want, and to whomever they please with absolutely no remorse, much less shame, for their actions.

It's as if a large part of the population never grew up. Maybe they didn't. 

The solution is not to engage in a tit-for-tat with these arrested-development tyrants; that only encourages them by appearing to take them seriously. We shouldn’t do that.

The better course of action is to simply ignore them. Let them cry, let them whine, let them set up their “safe spaces” and take meaningless stands against their imaginary boogeymen until they finally realize no one who matters cares what they say or what they do.

Honestly, it’s a show we don’t have to attend. After a while, most of us won’t.  It will take a bit longer for the media to follow our lead, but they will in time. Remember Occupy Wall Street? What about Code Pink?  Even Black Lives Matter is becoming irrelevant.  I rest my case. 

At some point, it’s inevitable. Until then we just have to endure obnoxious jerks essentially threatening to hold their breath until they get their way.

That doesn’t work for kids; it won’t work for them either. 

All they want is attention. Refuse to give it to them and they’ll fade away.