Sorry this happened in your city

[Belsnickel]

(11-01-2018, 03:18 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Ok, let's go to a semantics debate to try to assert I was only referring to the Left when I said folks. You did notice the second part of the sentence you quoted started with "but" not "and"? So of course I was talking about both the left and right when I said folks. 

To be sincere I don't tend to listen to Shawn Hannity. I tend to listen a little more closely to our elected officials, including a sitting Senator. To be honest I have zero idea how anyone could compare words stated by a biased journalist to an elected official. 

Thanks for not answering the question.

You know who does listen to Hannity? The people going to Trump rallies. Who also listens to Hannity? Trump. And elected officials on the right have been calling Democrats evil, anti-American, immoral, anti-Christian, and the list goes on for decades. This is a traceable event back to Newt Gingrich's memo to use language to otherize/dehumanize the left. It was effective, and as a result the left decided to engage in it as well. That has brought us to the current political climate.

As for Cory Booker's remarks, I'm assuming you are referring to the "complicit in evil" commentary which, if I really wanted to get into a semantics debate, I would point out isn't actually calling anyone evil. But I'll just stick with the semantics debate that even by starting the second part of the sentence with "but", you still separated out the left specifically from folks when talking about them pushing their agenda.