06-05-2020, 06:07 AM
(06-04-2020, 10:19 PM)bfine32 Wrote: What needs to happen is for folks to stop politicizing the issue. I see in this thread folks saying the issue is the POTUS. These folks are just like the looters: They give 2 shits about the issue, they just want to profit from it.Who was POTUS during:
Eric Gardner
Michael Brown
Freddie Gray
Ask yourself: What got more coverage:
Folks actually burning St John's church or Trump walking to it.
Protesters at the gates of the White House or Trump going to the bunker
We look to divide as a society regardless who's in charge.
The way ahead should be unification, not division.
It's no more Trump's fault than it was Obama's.
In short What needs to happen:
We need to blame the person responsible for the action
But he is responsible for his own actions. He's the president. His role as an executive is to do what is best for the union. What do you think serves the nation better in a time like this: Calling protesters terrorists and gassing them for a needless gesture, then doubling down on the "dominating the streets" rhetoric, or striking a conciliatory tone and doing whatever he can with his platform to restore some kind of stability? Party shouldn't mean anything. Other conservatives did it just fine because they possess some modicum of, as you call it, "emotional intelligence".
Did Trump loot and burn cities or kill an unarmed black man? Obviously not. I don't think that's the issue at hand. The issue is what he does or does not do as chief executive to attempt to bring calm and stability to the nation. He failed at that, and badly, and also needlessly. Any politician with a speechwriter and a moral compass could have gotten the job done.
No. We didn't get that. We got more, even crazier rhetoric that served no purpose other than to intimidate his opposition and pander to his base. It's dumb, and it's serving him as a candidate for re-election and the country he's asking to re-elect him poorly. It's exacerbating tensions.
Trump is beholden to no one politically. He turned the Republican Party into the party of Trump. What he says is what they are right now. it would have done him zero harm and a world of good to take a different tone when this situation unfolded. I guarantee he had people he pays to advise him telling him that and probably still does.
