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Civil Discourse Was One More Victim of the Shootings realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/… via @RealClearNews
If you’re seriously concerned about the future of our country, you have to be worried about what last week exposed about the state of the union. Not because there were 2 more mass murders and 1 the week before. Those aren’t the product of political rhetoric, but of a sick society
If politicians are willing to use the most extreme labels against their opponents, such as calling President Trump a racist or a white supremacist, then we have reached the point where majority rule is in danger of becoming serial civil war.
You cannot negotiate with a racist, you can only crush him. Nor can those who are falsely so labeled simply put the insult behind them and work happily toward compromise.
Instead, power will be obtained for the sole purpose of settling scores, and if you are out of power, you will say or do anything to get it back — literally anything.
Consider the protest held outside the home of Mitch McConnell on the evening of Aug. 5. The “emergency protest,” as the anti-gun demonstrators described it, was held while McConnell, 77, reportedly was home recovering from a broken shoulder.
Video of the incident, which Louisville police called a peaceful protest, is shocking. McConnell is treated as a criminal by the mob and obviously would have been correct in fearing for his life or that of his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.
“Come out, come out, wherever you are,” a person says at one point. “The bitch home — we keep seeing the lights go on and off,” another says. “This ho really thought he was going to get ready to be at home after he hurt his little punk ass shoulder.”
“Bitch, don’t nobody give a f--k! F--k your thoughts and prayers, Mitch. F--k you, f--k your wife, f--k everything you stand for.”
In one clip — originally streamed on Facebook Live — a man says, “Hopefully there’s somebody out there with some voodoo dolls of these bitches,” to which an unidentified woman replies: “Just stab the motherf--ker in the heart, please.”
If this behavior is not illegal, it should be. And if Democrats don’t condemn this behavior while at the same time they are blaming President Trump for his “dangerous” rhetoric, then they are the worst kind of hypocrites.
When @JoaquinCastroTX posts a list of people and says they are “fueling a campaign of hate that labels Hispanic immigrants as ‘invaders,’” he must recognize that he put those donors in the crosshairs at a time when expressing your political opinion can be a death sentence.
Maybe the NYT, WaPo, CNN and the rest of Fake News should cut to the chase. In the spirit of the Cold Civil War that has befallen us, maybe they should just label all stories about Trump like that infamous flier put out in Dallas before the JFK assassination: “Wanted for Treason”
