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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I never liked her even when she was pretending to be a conservative on the Blaze. She always came across as a liberal bitch who thought she was special. It’s too bad journalism attracts so many people with no integrity, morals or common sense.
Wonder why English suddenly became so popular? :-)
Will you need a grant for your research? Or will you do it pro bono?
(Sigh) you are probably right about that.
I, unfortunately, had to take English from my football and wrestling coach, a fireplug of a guy about 5' 8" tall and 240 lbs. Ugly sucker. 😂
“Intolerance, in the name of tolerance.”
Liberalism in a nutshell.
Well done.
LOL!
Of course I’d love to get a grant, but because of the importance of the research, I’m willing to do it for free. I’ll take one, or should I say two, for the team.
Well you have a perfect right.
And a pretty nice left too. :-)
Flattering picture of Trump in the pop up behind her.
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