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I agree with most of this. But I strongly disagree that 40 percent of our population is "profoundly immoral." The characterization is untrue and unwise. We will be sharing the country forever or there will be a civil war; the latter would be unsurvivable.
Many people voted for Trump, or support him, for reasons a moral person could understand. A significant number, for example, believe that human life begins at conception. Whether you agree or not, this is not an "immoral" view.
Many people pay little attention to the news. They have jobs and families. They have no time to immerse themselves in the details of the Mueller report. An improved economy means they can better take care of their families. That is not an immoral sentiment.
The attribution of the improved economy to Trump is an *unreasoned* sentiment, in my view, but it isn't an immoral one.
Many Americans fear what Democrats are offering. They worry when they hear the word "socialism."
Many Americans fear what Democrats are offering. They worry when they hear the word "socialism."
However much they're told that the word now means "a better welfare state," they're aware that historically the word has meant something far more sinister--an untold, uncountable number of dead. Some may even recall the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
To recognize that "socialist" is a word associated with horror and the gulags is not immoral. It may be *unreasoned,* insofar as it does not seem that this is what Bernie Sanders, for example, has in mind.
But it isn't immoral to think, "God spare us experiments in socialism." It isn't immoral to be repulsed and frightened by a cohort of the American left that sincerely wishes to destroy the American economy. The desire to feed your kids is quite moral.
It is much more constructive to say that 40 percent of the population disagrees with us about how damaging and dangerous Trump is. That means we have to work harder to persuade them of it. Calling them "immoral" isn't a good start.
We have to find a way to settle these differences peacefully. A civil war in the United States would not be survivable. As with a nuclear war, no one would win.
Given this, we should start by assuming that people who disagree with us are mistaken, not immoral.
Given this, we should start by assuming that people who disagree with us are mistaken, not immoral.
Apart from that, I'm largely in agreement.
