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The age of haters: Our politics and culture need to break free of resentment
New York Daily News ^ | 29 Jan 2020 | S.E. Cupp

Posted on 01/29/2020 12:40:33 PM PST by KC_Lion

I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of feeling sickened. Our nasty politics of revenge, our unabating obsession with hating the other side, our too-quick-to-cancel culture and our fetishization of extreme purity is not only exhausting but it’s making us sick.

It’s in President Trump’s puerile tweets and anger-drenched rallies, where he demeans and mocks his political enemies, real and perceived.

It’s also in many of his policies, like a Muslim ban, family separation and anti-LGBTQ legislation that’s punitive purely for the sake of delighting bigoted supporters.

It’s in Congress, where the parties have decided that working together is downright traitorous and a sign of weakness.

It’s in our culture, where we routinely experiment with banning speech we don’t like and destroying the lives and careers of people who say it. It’s in the revenge fantasies that used to be reserved for sociopaths, but that now get a shrug when public personalities like actor Robert De Niro openly fantasizes about throwing a “bag of s--t” at the president’s face, or right-wing radio host Michael Savage wishes Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would be infected by the coronavirus.

And yes, it’s in our media, where we devote entirely too much time to “owning” the other side, whether that’s slamming the left as elitist “libtards” or mocking the right as “credulous boomer rubes.” That should be beneath us.

Whether you’re on the far left, the far right or the ever-shrinking center, this unending, level-11 vitriol is unsustainable and unbearable. No one should feel compelled to be this angry at other people all the time.

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KEYWORDS: 2020election; cupp; politics; presidenttrump; secupp
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To: jmacusa


"Y'know, Nietschze says, 'Out of chaos comes order.'"
21 posted on 01/29/2020 1:05:57 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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22 posted on 01/29/2020 1:06:56 PM PST by tomkat
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To: KC_Lion

That ain’t gonna happen until after the complete and total destruction of the commiescum and SJW left, all their enablers, excuse makers, etc with them.

Including all those who push the lie that this is a moral equivalence issue and everyone is equally guilty.


23 posted on 01/29/2020 1:06:58 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: dfwgator

The Nazis used to say that.


24 posted on 01/29/2020 1:09:02 PM PST by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: KC_Lion

You first SE.


25 posted on 01/29/2020 1:34:43 PM PST by sauropod (If women are upset at TrumpÂ’s naughty words, who bought 80 million copies of 50 Shades of Grey?)
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To: sauropod

Anger drenched rallies!!! What a lie. They are full arenas, full of people celebrating being a freedom loving American


26 posted on 01/29/2020 1:46:31 PM PST by Freee-dame
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To: KC_Lion

Can’t stand the heat S.E.? Go clean the CNN break room. Do something useful for your fellow propagandists.


27 posted on 01/29/2020 1:46:59 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: left that other site
S.E. Cupp puts up a big front.

Had a young, good-looking English teacher in high school with the same assets. But she used to wear snug cashmere sweaters in class. Her classes were full of boys. Drove them crazy. 🤪

28 posted on 01/29/2020 1:48:41 PM PST by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: KC_Lion

We need forgiveness. We are an UNFORGIVING world. In a world without forgiveness, only the shameless thrive.


29 posted on 01/29/2020 1:50:43 PM PST by Hildy (Don't get bitter, get better.)
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To: KC_Lion

Dear SE Cupp,
As a Vietnam Veteran, I have been mocked, made fun of, labeled as crazy, and demeaned by both network media and hollywood. Hellyea, ,I vote Republican.
I am also a retired NASA-certified engineer, so that rube uneducated stuff does not work!


30 posted on 01/29/2020 1:51:06 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Ouderkirk; a fool in paradise; All

S.E. D-Cupp


31 posted on 01/29/2020 1:53:30 PM PST by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: dfwgator

I could think of worse ways to spen…..never mind.


32 posted on 01/29/2020 1:59:46 PM PST by redangus
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To: left that other site

I’m guessing more like ‘D’s’, but I’d have to do more research to be sure.


33 posted on 01/29/2020 2:01:58 PM PST by redangus
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To: redangus

Let’s hope it gets an “F”!


34 posted on 01/29/2020 2:10:32 PM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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To: KC_Lion

ANTI-LGBTQ legislation for bigoted supporters. Ok, one more time you ontological neophyte: Take a man and a woman, who are in love and get married and put them in an apartment with all they need. In a year or so they can come walking out holding a beautiful, precious little baby. Take a homosexual couple and put them in the same apartment, and behold: the only product of their intimate relations would be a stinking bucket of bodily waste and fluids. Ok? Got that? It’s NOT the same! It’s not Marriage and it is not and never will be worthy of the honor and reverence due to holy matrimony. Never. Human sexuality in the biblical context is called Kedushah: “Holiness”. That is why for thousands of years the righteous have worked to preserve the beauty and dignity of the procreant urge in accordance with G-d’s Law. To depart from his standards is to bring death into the world. This is evidenced by the millions of human beings who are slaughtered every year, as a triumph of the will, of a feminism shaking it’s fist in the face of G-d, and bowing down to the goddess of the perfect orgasm. This sexual revolution is destroying the world, and it is evidenced by tens of millions also killed via Aids and other diseases. This will not stop until we stop accepting and protecting the Lie that we may violate the Torah with impunity. As G-d has said, “ I have set before you Blessing and Life, and Cursing and Death; Choose Life so that you and your children may Live.


35 posted on 01/29/2020 2:20:13 PM PST by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees)
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To: notdownwidems

It’s stated...she’s an E Cupp. Her first name is Susan or some other name beginning “S”. Maybe her name is “Size”.


36 posted on 01/29/2020 2:33:49 PM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: dfwgator

Screw her.....OH, please.


37 posted on 01/29/2020 2:57:19 PM PST by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: KC_Lion
No longer young and cute, she's starting to hit the wall.

Does she have the talent to make it as a newscaster without relying on her two largest natural gifts?

38 posted on 01/29/2020 2:57:41 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: left that other site

They’re looking more fat than anything else at this point...


39 posted on 01/29/2020 4:11:41 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Torahman

Bravo!!!

Beautifully stated; my pastor could not say it any better — and he got his Th.d from Cambridge.


40 posted on 01/29/2020 4:24:12 PM PST by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites.)
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