America is on its way to divorce court

[Peter1469]

America is on its way to divorce court

An interesting opinion piece on the toxic political culture today.

On the attempted assassination of GOP lawmakers in Alexandria, VA

No one is responsible except the would-be assassin. But his actions should serve as a wake-up call that the demonization of our fellow Americans who disagree with us has gone too far. The culture of contempt permeating our politics has now had near-fatal consequences. We need to put on the brakes and learn how to distinguish once again between our opponents and our enemies.
Case in point: A few weeks before the Alexandria shooting, Hillary Clinton gave a commencement speech at Wellesley College where she that Trump’s budget is “an attack of unimaginable cruelty on the most vulnerable among us, the youngest, the oldest, the poorest” (emphasis added). No, it is not. Using nerve agent on the innocent is “an attack of unimaginable cruelty.” Putting a hapless college student into a coma is an “attack of unimaginable cruelty.” Reducing the growth of government spending is not.

Think for a moment what Clinton was saying: It’s not simply that Democrats and Republicans have an honest disagreement about how best to help the most vulnerable among us. In Clinton’s telling, Republicans are waging war on the vulnerable. That is toxic.
No doubt, Trump has contributed mightily to our descent into the culture of contempt. (For example, the media is not the “enemy of the American people,” Mr. President). But since Trump’s election, the scope and scale of political contempt on the left have reached unprecedented heights. Just a few months ago, when President Barack Obama was in office, it would have been unimaginable for a comedianto proudly pose for a photo holding up the president’s bloody, severed head.


Worst of all, we are in the process of cementing these attitudes in the next generation. On college campuses, students are being taught that it is acceptable to treat with contempt those with different ideas. We saw this phenomenon on display when Charles Murray — a distinguished conservative scholar — was shouted downand assaulted at Middlebury College in a riot that sent a professor to the hospital. Not a single student suffered any real consequences. Similar incidents are taking place on campuses across the country. Young Americans are learning that people they disagree with are not to be listened to respectfully and debated; they are to be silenced and driven out of the public square.

read the entire article

[Newpublius]

America is on its way to divorce court

An interesting opinion piece on the toxic political culture today.

On the attempted assassination of GOP lawmakers in Alexandria, VA


read the entire article

The mutual contempt should eventually come to the conclusion that a divorce lets mutually incompatible paradigms coexist.

[texan]

The politically correct ass kissing Democratic Party are full blown retards.

[Dr. Who]

I think that the public rhetoric is divisive and that, as was seen in the 60's and early 70's, the face of social change tends to be the student age group, it doesn't necessarily mean that society is on the verge of collapse. We certainly have more tools to express our displeasure with the status quo or against those who want to disrupt the status quo, but fundamentally, now as before, that disruptive influence is enough to provoke political discussion and even change, but not enough to collapse society. The biggest clashes are between the political fringes, but the centrists comprise the political anchor in society.

[Ransom]

I would agree Dr. Who, but it's certainly not what is driving today's Democrat Party. The 'anchors' in that party have lost their foundation. Even after Ossoff's defeat Tuesday night, many Democrats were claiming he wasn't toxic enough, that he was too politically anchored. I'm pointing out that I don't think the political fringes are where the disruptive influence is, I think it's in your party........and the struggle isn't going to firstly be against the GOP and Trump....cause you're doing poorly there, your biggest clash needs to be for the heart and soul of the Democrat Party. Your far left is a seriously disruptive influence, and you're going to have to decide what to do with them.