We seem to have forgotten the fact that people can hold different opinions without one of them being a traitor to the country.
As misguided as I might think your ideas are it doesn't mean you don't have the best interests of the country at heart.
We seem to be moving in a direction, led by our racist dontard where any disagreement is traitorous or at least disloyal. No one is absolute in this country, we have a republican from of democracy where all opinions are allowed.
We aren't a dictatorship, at least not yet.
We used to at least pretend to respect people who held different opinions but it seems like that is a rarity nowadays.
What might be even worse is the amount of lying and deceit justified by some as a means to win an election. We had an election where, at least one candidate, relied on catch phrases and slogans instead of policy proposals.
For years the attention span of many Americans has been shrinking and I think we are starting to see the impact of that in our politics. Too many have no real grasp of the issues and rely on sound bites and headlines.
The politics are getting shallower and shallower, but the hate is running deeper.
No comments:
Post a Comment