This is going to continue until someone decides to be an actual leader. Both sides have said many inflammatory and violence provoking things. Until someone prominent on either side decides to actually be a leader, and apologize for being a part of this mess, nothing will change. If someone, be it Trump, Clinton, Waters, etc. would come out and say that they recognize that they indeed are part of the problem and promise to do better, maybe that would push the opposite side to recognize that it would help the country as a whole and do the same thing. In my opinion, that is going to be the only way to break the cycle.
What a bunch of BS…I am talking about 50, 60 and 70 year old politicians, journalists, bloggers people like you and me. I am guessing by your response you believe you were taught how to be civil. I believe I was. Yet why is there such incivility?
Domino’s Pizza, which was trading around $10/share when it released its apology ad campaign, today trades at around $260/share.
They basically said our product sucks, and we’ll do better.
So - a well-crafted apology can help turn things around, but it requires acceptance that something wrong was done. If the blowhards apologized for blowing hard, the neckbeards and mouth breathers who support them would get annoyed.
It’s fiction but at a time when someone is sending bombs, people beating each other in the street, politicians more or less urging violence and a 1/3rd of U.S. voters thinking we are closing in on a second civil war.
It’s questionable timing in a turbulent time and pretty much garbage considering the NYT’s long reporting history. I would like to think this is beneath them.