Arlo said:...the entrenched will ...continue to stir vitriol and hate and fear
from both sides of the discourse, and I see the bitter divide in America
becoming even more bitter. Americans no longer disagree with their neighbors,
the fear and hate their neighbors, they are "the enemy", a threat, a problem,
the root of all evil and problems in the world. Sean Hannity's tagline
yesterday was "America Under Siege". Under siege? Are the 50%+ who voted Obama
NOT part of "America"? They are "an outside threat" to the "real America" of
Palin's divisive portrayal of the only real American's being those who agree
with her. Democrats like Murtha fair no better by ridiculing those who'd
disagree with him as rednecks. And it is with this rhetoric we will likely live
for quite sometime.dmb says:I appreciate your generosity to some extent but
it's wrong to assign equal blame to "both sides". To do so would be a case of
"grotesque even-handedness". Nobody said McCain was an unreal American,
a Marxist, a Socialist, a terrorist, a pal to terrorists, a secret Islamist,
an Arab or any such thing. Nobody screamed for McCain's death. There is nobody
on the left who can be compared to Hannity, Limbaugh or the dozens of other
such hateful radio talkers. There was no internet whispering campaign that
accused McCain of being the anti-Christ and nobody said he wanted to sexualize
kindergarteners. It is simply a fact that the Republican Party's "southern
strategy", which they've been using for at least 40 years, is a divide and
conquer tactic. That's what's so disturbing about Palin's "real America"
comments. That is code for "white America". It is covert racism. And so
Murtha's "redneck" comment at least has the virtue of being accurate, if not
polite. If you look at the percentage of uneducated whites who voted for McCain
and at the states (Nearly all of them were southern and/or rural), Murtha was
only being rude about an obvious demographic fact. And wouldn't you say
that it's entirely appropriate to be angry about such a divisive tactic? Does
it divide us to complain about division? No, they can't reasonably be compared,
much less equated. And I'd add that we live in a social world that centers
around competition and we go to war at the drop of a hat. We spent countless
hours entertaining ourselves with football, big time wrestling and movies about
tough-guy vigilantes. We're surrounded by all kinds of of aggression and yet
we're supposed to be "civil" in our political discourse? That's crazy. That is
some kind of Stockholm syndrome or battered spouse syndrome. Isn't more
reasonable to fight back against this kind of abuse, this kind of culture, with
something like a mature and well-reasoned argument? We don't want to get down
in the gutter with them or simply throw back a bunch of equally outrageous
insults, but I think it's high time liberals grow a pair and stand up to these
bullies.Just like Obama did.It works.
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