Which is all fine and good for the politicians and the parties, but I hope you’ll agree that it’s extremely BAD for families to be so bitterly and angrily divided. I’ve been hearing about people who have stopped talking to members of their family, and people described as close long-time friends who have been un-friended on Facebook and that kind of thing.
I kind of wonder if she went also to sort of dare him to have her arrested. Remember he kept proclaiming that she should be thrown in jail.
Yes, it’s “bad” as in “we wish it weren’t happening,” but it may be necessary. It may be that this is just how it is. If we could have avoided it, we would have, but we couldn’t. The only question now is, what part are you gonna play in it?
I’m saying this because so many people are pontificating right now about the “right” way to react to the situation, but the way I see it, you can only be who you are. If you’re a marcher, then march. If you’re a sideline-sitter, then sit. If you’re a window-breaker, then… you see what I mean?
I can get some people to still talk to me, because I tell them I respect their views, and I listen, but I expect them to do the same in return. I just set the tone right off the bat that this is going to be a civil discussion and we will agree to disagree and walk away still friends. But it does seem that finding people who can handle cognitive dissonance is getting scarce as hen’s teeth. If somebody can’t even entertain a differing opinion without falling all to pieces, it doesn’t say much for their intellect.
And if you are a protestor, I can respect that, but if you refuse to stay in your designated area, block traffic, and climb over barricades, it has become something else entirely. Once you start damaging property and assaulting people you are no longer a protestor, you are a criminal, and deserve to be treated as such. I can’t respect or condone that in any way.
Two comments…
First, most of his inflammatory comments were excoriated by the news cyclers …and for more than 24 hours.
Second, somewhere in that timeline, his supporters come to the conclusion that he isn’t going to get a fair shake and find the political incorrectness of it all (combined with the holier than though news cycler’s outrage) somewhat amusing.
It’s difficult, in a first-past-the-post country like America, to ***not ***have a 2-party system. Because the side that splinters or has several different parties will almost always lose to the unified foe. The political left and right have to fall into two main parties in order for each to have a decent chance of taking the White House.
Hopefully the 2020 candidate doesn’t think like you do and learns from Hillary’s disaster. She did a simply awful job at campaigning, as shown by her loss to Donald Trump. She came into the race with a ton of baggage, lacked charisma, failed to come up with a good and consistent message, focused her campaign on getting celebrity endorsements and racking up votes in solidly blue states while ignoring swing states, and generally failed to appeal to anyone except people who would vote for her no matter who was on the R ticket. I mean, she was the first major party candidate since 1972 not to visit Wisconsin, guess what one of the swing states she lost was?