As our country moves forward today, I think the most important thing to remember—regardless of whether your candidate won or lost—is that a quarter of a million people cower in fear in the city of Aleppo as we speak. They are being bombed and ruthlessly exterminated by Assad. Coalition forces close in on the city of Mosul...the closer they get, the more mass graves of decapitated people they find. Inside the city, brainwashed teenagers with automatic weapons continue to torture and kill.
In the city of Chicago the death toll mounts as gangs solve their differences with bullets. In Mexican border towns, from California to Texas, families patrol their own communities with guns. They have instructed their own children to shoot the drug cartel members, because their government, and for way too long, our government, has turned a blind eye to their struggles. They don't want their towns over-run by drug lords, they don't have anyone else to turn too.
In Africa, the terrorist organization Boko Haram, rides into villages on motorcycles, shooting men raping women, stealing children...have you heard of them?
All through-out south and central- America, children and their mothers embark on a treacherous journey—they are coming north to America, fleeing their oppressive regimes, only to die in the Mexican desert. The wind blows across the bones and skulls of these lost voices. They all wanted what we have, and they died trying for it.
It is my hope, that moving forward, we can set our differences aside and turn our attention to those who really need us to do it the most. Today I love my country more than I ever have. The joy I take in this victory is the hope that we will help each other heal, we won't turn our backs anymore, we will pick each other up and get this "human race" back on course. Thank you for lending me your ears, can we all smoke the peace pipe now? It's LEGAL!
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