“The word I keep hearing over and over from liberal Democrats as they protest everything is ‘fear.’ My fear is that if I wear my “Make America Great Again” hat in public I may be assaulted. If I am overheard saying that I supported Trump I may be verbally assaulted. That is what I call ‘real’ fear. True Trump supporters are generally a quiet, hard-working, taxpaying, respectful group of people. We need a little more conversation and a little less confrontation,” she writes.
If this letter were an honest appeal for “conversation,” I would have no argument. However this is not an invitation to hold a conversation but an argument built of straw. How many people wear their partisan hats when venturing outside their homes? Are quiet, hard-working, taxpaying Hillary voters just as likely to be harassed by a rabid Trump voter?
Misplaced attribution has turned our public life into a bully pulpit of exaggerations and fabrications. Real news records real events; not the falsehoods of a demagogue who weaves self-serving narratives to mislead the public. Here are examples of real news in recent weeks:
Misplaced attribution has turned our public life into a bully pulpit of exaggerations and fabrications. Real news records real events; not the falsehoods of a demagogue who weaves self-serving narratives to mislead the public. Here are examples of real news in recent weeks:
In Quebec City, a gunman kills 6 people at a local mosque. Authorities arrest a Canadian national whose Facebook page reveals an admiration for Donald Trump (Toronto Star).
Two Texas mosques are destroyed by fire in one month, one within hours after the president signs his Muslim travel ban (Texas Tribune).
CNN reports a wave of bomb threats that close 54 Jewish Community Centers. In the face of pandemic anti-Semitism, the president dodges questions from an Israel reporter — ordering him to “sit down.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center documents a sharp rise in hate crimes since the election. These reports correlate with slogans and remarks made by candidate Trump during the campaign.Over 1,000 incidents committed by rabid Trump supporters, but how many are attributable to a liberal Democrat? Imagined fear is the province of children. Playing the victim card is a dishonest and disingenuous argument at best.
There is no excuse for willful self-delusion. Those who voted for the candidate ignored his defects of character: His appeals to bigotry and racism; his admitted misogyny; his bullying of a disabled reporter; his predatory conduct; his litany of cheats, deceits, nativism, and narcissism.
When voters deny such defects of character and turn mirrors to the wall, they are refusing to see their own reflections and to hold themselves accountable.
I purchased a t-shirt from Amazon that reads on its front Impeach Trump Now. Planning to wear it proudly and patriotically I was advised by every one of my family not to do so. When I asked why to a person they said, there are a lot of nuts out there. By wearing that shirt in public you could be putting yourself at risk of bodily harm. After giving it further thought I had to acknowledge they could very well be right.
ReplyDeleteTyrants, and the mentality that supports tyrants, are responsible for creating victims disproportionate to their own numbers.
Trump is a would be tyrant and his supporters are enablers. The opinion piece crying victimhod is BS. Thanks for posting.
“The word I keep hearing over and over from liberal Democrats as they protest everything is ‘fear.’
ReplyDelete‘Hear this now, O foolish people,
Without understanding,
Who have eyes and see not,
And who have ears and hear not:
Do you not fear Me?’ says the Lord.
Not to get overly dramatic, but the real problem is that our dear lady hears the word 'fear' yet does not hear the meaning of those who speak it. The working poor in their fifties and sixties may fear the administration because they could quite legally move the attained age to receive SS benefits to seventy years or beyond. The cost-of-living increases for SS may be tied to less and less realistic indices such as the price of a television set. Many among the eighteen million people who obtained long-neglected health insurance and healthcare fear an end to their ability to visit a doctor and obtain services. Younger workers fear that SS and Medicare will no longer exist when they retire. Black people fear for their lives at the hands of violent agitators and even at the hands of police departments as the head-of-state merely scoffs at the BLM movement. Immigrants fear deportation and separation. We all fear government spending going so far beyond any reasonable level for a zero sum gain without any improvements to infrastructure or social welfare. Just the biggest bamboozle in the history of our young nation. Unsustainable debt crushing every family.
I say go ahead and wear your silly hat, dear. No one very likely will care too much. I got a history lesson on the butcher of Castro and chucked on my chest for wearing my Che shirt to the grocery store. I even teased a guy wearing a 'Hillary for Prison' shirt last fall. We just jeered at each other. We knew we were in safe territory.
Me? I'm gonna order some nice 'Black Lives Matter' Tees so that people will know that's where I stand.
I remember when the red hat society, was nice ladies eating lunch
ReplyDeletenow it will soon be synonymous, with nice little brown shirts.
Fear of the snowflake is now a recognizable mental condition
as their erroneous trumpsumptions start to crumble to dust
and it should be palpable fear, as snowflakes amass an avalanche
crushing this verminous administration and it's quisling ideologues!
Projection is so expected and inevitable that it feels shocking when it doesn't happen. Fear is what they're about. Fear and its promotion. Afraid or immigrants, afraid of crime, afraid of economic collapse -- afraid of everything that's been getting better instead of worse. Afraid of Obama, afraid of communists, muslims, atheists Jews, gays, transexuals. Afraid of gun grabbers afraid not to be armed. Pissed off, grossed out and afraid. Afraid of change, afraid of failure, afraid of anything or anyone different, afraid of being mocked afraid of themselves. Afraid of the inevitable.
ReplyDeleteAnd how dieth the Republican? as everyone else and how then are they wise?