06-15-2017, 03:05 PM
(06-15-2017, 10:38 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: What does need to come of this terrible event is an acknowledgement, from both sides, that things have gone too far. I've said before that it's generally the party out of power that engages in the fiercest rhetoric. I think Trump took this to eleven. Trump certainly took things too far on the campaign trail, e.g. offering to pay the legal bills of anyone who beat up a protester. The response from the left was to go to fifteen. I've mentioned before that anyone not heavily criticizing Trump's every move is immediately branded a Trump supporter by many (most?) left leaning people. There's a refusal to even see the possibility of a middle ground and it's pushing people to the extremes. Extreme thinking is eventually, for some, going to lead to extreme action. We see it with Antifa, we saw it at Trump rallies in CA and we just saw the worst example of it yesterday.
It's got to stop and it needs to stop at the top. Maxine Waters, Gillibrand, etc. need to tone down the extreme rhetoric and hopefully that will trickle down to celebrities, which will trickle down and so forth. If things stay as is I predict a dark outcome.
I think it would help if our government realised they need to compromise.
Most people didnt vote for this president or his agenda. Half the country disagrees with it.
We had record oil production, record consecutive months of job creation, health insurance companies that couldnt turn away sick people, low gas prices, and supposedly rules in place that would prevent another financial disaster. Not everything was rainbows and unicorns. But it wasnt all bad.
Why go in and take a baseball bat to stuff we made progress on? Hell. The only reason to undue the progress we made with cuba was because Obama did it. But it is on the table for some reason.
