All the latest protests from so-called Alt-Right white supremacist’s (I don’t think they are on the right), the BLM, ANTIFA, etc. to me has turned into a bunch of hate.
I don’t blame anyone for protesting white supremacist’s, however. I do wonder if it’s better though to just nationally ignore them. There was today in DC like a maybe 24 of them marching…not exactly a majority…
All the above aside, regardless of political ideology we all need to be more civil. I’m not saying no debate, I certainly do so & with vigor. I do not, however, hate anyone. It’s ok to disagree, even get angry, but if we hate each other it is doing no good for any of us.
If you know anything about me, you never see my post’s filtered, because I don’t use cursing in debates. I try never to make it personal to another, I’m sure I probably have, but I try. It does not make your point to not listen to another viewpoint, name, call, or shout anyone down. It just makes you look angry & closed-minded in my opinion.
I don’t even understand how people could follow someone they disagree with into a restaurant or public venue, or especially at their home & shout them down, make threats, or terrorize their children. I wouldn’t even think of doing that to anyone, even if I didn’t like them.
What are we going to do? End up in civil war? Killing each other? Mercy, that’s insane. I fear if cooler heads don’t prevail, regardless of what our political leaders (Trump too, maybe especially) say, we will end up tearing the country to shreds.
Are we going to hate one another enough to be willing to kill? Well, if so, it won’t be one sided. That will be a shared misery. It won’t be worth it. Civil war starts with incivility, insults, intimidation, threats, & finally violence. We live in a place where everyone CAN be heard. Everyone. If we tear it all down soon nobody will be heard.
Our political leaders are no prize as well on either side. (Except of course, YOUR favorite, RIGHT?) None of them listen to any of us very often. They listen to donors, the loudest screamers, the most extremes, & others they fear. They all have it set up to line their pockets, & exempt themselves from a lot of the rules they make for us.
I have said more than once Trump was not my first choice, but after he won the primary I had, to me two choices. I knew I did not want Hillary because the entire region here has not prospered under Obama & I believed she would be even worse, as well as other considerations. I have actually been surprised at Trump, in spite of his tweets & foul mouth, he’s governed in a way I do agree with more often than I thought he would. I figured he would probably do like most, promise all kinds of things & actually do none of them (agree with his policies or not, he’s doing much of what he campaigned on).
Another point I want to make, please don’t pick apart my every word on this thread, reserve it for others. I figure I offended some on the right & left here, though it’s not what I intended. I’m just trying mostly to manifest my thought process, weather you agree with it or not is irrelevant to the point of the OP, just wanting to be understood…
Middle fingering each other isn’t helpful. Honest debate, even heated, is much more educational, civil, & is the best way to come up with actual solutions. Do you want to live in a peaceful country or not? Then don’t try to shut others up, actually listen, & try to convince others why you think your way is best, not your way or the highway, in spite of what out leaders are saying/doing.
