Letter: Election’s over, people have spoken

I guess we’ll have to replay the Super Bowl. Some folks (Pittsburgh Steeler fans), are upset with the outcome.

Same with recent UW-RF basketball and Fusion hockey games. Shall we redo the state high school gymnastics?

That’s the mentality shown by a vocal minority with regard to recent elections. If you disagree with the outcome, like a democratic election, you try a recall or challenge in the courts.

Recalls or court challenges seem to be in vogue. If you don’t agree with what has transpired, express hatred as best you can. Sounds politically correct to me.

After all, we wouldn’t want to offend anyone, even by a democratic process.

Could this simply be SOUR GRAPES?

I’m curious about the real motivation.

Is it envy, like the person with the obvious six- figure family income crying poor (their car is newer than my old Chev SUV ).

Or maybe greed, as expressed by those who want others to pay for the greedy person’s share of benefits.

Or the ignorant, by those who slept or didn’t pay attention in civics class, (we certainly don’t want to question teachers who may have been elsewhere, or failed to teach basics so their students wouldn’t know the difference between a right and a privilege).

We could always do a “peaceful protest,” like shouting obscenities, threatening legislators and their families, and trashing the people’s Capitol with the help of outsiders.

We could support those who, instead of doing the job for which they were hired, are someplace else but expect full pay from the taxpayers. No, the facts are plain. Unions lost. Taxpayers and the democratic process won.

We may not like the outcome, but in a democracy, we live with the results. In our last election,  the people clearly spoke!

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