Get Over It

It stabs you in the heart.  You lost your job, your father suffered a heart attack, you went through a nasty divorce, and your child was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. 

Then, someone taps you on the shoulder and gives you these brilliant words of advice, “Get over it.”  He climbs back into his Jaguar and takes off.  Or maybe he switches channels, his eyes glaze over, and he sinks back into his cushioned recliner. 

Someone sprayed graffiti all over the front of your house.  Get over it.

Someone took a ball bat to your windshield because you were in the wrong party.  Get over it.

Your business was ransacked and looted.  Get over it.

You were screamed at, insulted, harassed, and run out of a restaurant.  Get over it.

Your freedom of speech and right to assemble was just denied.  Get over it.

“Get over it” means take your lumps.  Don’t be a baby.  Quit whining.  Put your “big boy pants on.”  Don’t be a sore loser.  You’re paranoid.  You’re making a mountain out of a molehill.  You’re so petty.  Things happen.  Be a man.  Don’t rock the boat.  Play nice.  Quit making it hard on everybody.  You’re showing your true colors.  Don’t make such a fuss.  Get over it.

America just went through a divisive, bitter election.  Then we were warned that massive malfeasance was afoot in the process, like ballots showing up late, legitimate ballots dumped in the garbage bins, votes changed by poll workers, surreptitious actions hidden from observers, and more.  Those who stood to gain from the election looked down their noses and growled, “Get over it!” 

Constitution violated?  Get over it?

Laws broken?  Get over it?

Cheating?  Get over it?

Transparency prevented?  Get over it?

Allegations of wrongdoing?  Get over it?

Seventy million voters disenfranchised?   Get over it?

It is rumored that Joseph Stalin said, “It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.” 

When we are admonished to do our civic duty and vote, we do so in good faith that we have elections free from fraud or manipulation.  When we protest that wrong things are happening, we are told that no clear evidence of fraud exists.  The intent of that response is simply to make us stop looking for evidence since those in charge say there isn’t any. 

Got suspicions?  Get over it.

I read something that our forefathers said: “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”  When it becomes impossible to maintain our vigil, freedoms are already slipping away from us.  When the rule of law becomes the rule of whoever is in power, freedom has been replaced by tyranny.  Those who think they gain from the loss of vigilance will soon lament the loss of democracy.  Rigged elections are among the first steps toward becoming a banana republic.

We must not get over it. 

We must scrutinize, investigate, analyze and dissect the issue until we discover exactly what happened.  When that study is over and if crimes were indeed discovered, the culprits must be prosecuted and punished.  Whether partisan or independent, every single American should agree with this course of action.

Either this is a nation of laws or it is not.

Either the law is enforced uniformly, or it is not.

If one law may be broken with impunity, then all other laws are equally meaningless.

If every law is meaningless, then we live in tyranny, subject to the whims of the tyrant.

Tyrants and subjects.  Beware.  Today’s tyrants may swiftly become tomorrow’s subjects.

If getting over it means caving to criminal behavior, we must adamantly refuse.  If getting over it means a false peace, a sham election, and a miscarriage of justice, then we must staunchly resist.  If getting over it means forfeiture of the constitution, then true patriots have no choice but to fight for righteous judgment.