Rantz: If your kid is ‘scared’ over Trump, you’ve failed them

This afternoon, we’re expected to see a walkout by Seattle-area students angry over the election of Donald Trump. They won’t be punished for their absence. According to district spokesperson Luke Duecy, “Kids are hurting. They do not need to be punished. They need to talk about it.”

It’s not just high school students who are scared. College students across the country claim they’re terrified. At the University of California, Irvine, students held a “group cry” after the election results were announced. Universities are creating “safe spaces” to calm upset college students (ADULTS!). Those are just two of countless examples of irrational reactions to Trump’s win.

If your kids are hurting or are terrified, you have failed them miserably.

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You’ve failed them as parents and have failed them as educators and mentors. If they are hurting or terrified, they don’t truly understand how the presidency works and that’s because you either didn’t teach them or you’re telling them that they should be scared. They shouldn’t be this scared. It’s an unreasonable, unhinged reaction fueled by absurd ideologues who aren’t truly scared; they’re simply acting out because tens of millions of people happen to hold different opinions than they do. Oh, the humanity!

When gun rights activists scream about President Obama or then-candidate Hillary Clinton wanting to take guns away, the Left rightly calls this out as irrational thinking. Presidents can’t simply take guns away on a whim. They call out the irrational fear fueling gun and ammo sales. How ironic, then, is it that these very same Leftist activists aren’t speaking out against the irrational fear from anti-Trumpers?

I’ve seen an unusually high number of Instagram posts of people crying, in fear, over the election of Trump. In fact, there was one post where the user took four individual photos of himself crying, then put those photos in a “frame” using a third party app. That’s not actual fear. It’s a weird art project featuring your martyrdom. You’re not a victim; you’re unhinged in your calls for attention.

This is abnormal behavior.

Now, pardon me as I meander from my main point a little bit: I didn’t vote for Trump, I’m a minority being told I need to worry, and almost every single candidate I supported for state-wide office in Washington state lost. Yet here I am, able to go on with my life. I was a bit shocked, sure (not too shocked: I said Trump would win because of the arrogance of Progressive activists). But I didn’t cry. I didn’t need a “safe space” to decompress. I didn’t need to riot and vandalize.

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How am I able to function in a world where Trump is my next president? Easy: I’m not surrounded by people who agree with everything I say. Quite the opposite.

Living in Seattle, I’m surrounded by people who think I’m a bad person simply because I’m a Republican. People have tried to get me fired simply for believing in the general principles of conservatism. I’m used to a reality that local Progressive activists don’t get: I’m used to knowing there are people who don’t see things the way I do.

When you’re insulated in a Progressive bubble, you mistakenly believe everyone supports what you do and you tell yourself you’re smarter than all those dopes who might be conservative. So a message to those who are terrified at the notion that not everyone in this country supports what you believe in: you’ll be OK. This is a country that thrives because of a healthy level of disagreement. Your reaction, however, isn’t healthy. You need to work on that and you can start by coming to terms with a simple fact: you’re not the smartest person in the room.

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