You Can Agree to Disagree Without Being an Asshole

What a surprise, right?

After receiving a Twitter notification that Joe Biden is the projected winner of the 2020 presidential election, I took to Twitter to see what people were saying.

There were a lot of stones being thrown. Malice. Hate. Negativity.

But one tweet in particular caught my attention above all others, which read:

“I love seeing Trump supporters CRY, it’s my daily medicine, my weekly energy, my monthly inspiration and my yearly inspiration. Their loss is the only reason I’m still alive, I was born to love and enjoy the failure that they have achieved.”

I don’t care where you stand on a divisive topic. If this is how you feel about other people with a different viewpoint, if your delight comes when other people “lose,” you’ve got a lot of work to do on yourself.

You would think in 2020, for the “smartest” species on the planet, that people would have developed better communication skills by now. More empathy. More understanding. More open-mindedness, kindness, and respect for one another.