So the left kind of took whining and moping a little
further than I had forecast but was anyone really surprised to see them running
down streets smashing windows of cars and businesses after the inauguration?
At
least they wore black masks because that’s what people of conviction who know
they’re right do, I guess.
A
word of caution, though. They weren’t all rioting or cozened away in closets
weeping and modeling Play-Doh, or lying on the floor of your local supermarket
kicking their heels and flailing their arms in the biggest national temper
tantrum this country may have ever seen. Some of them were quietly licking
their wounds in the privacy of their own living rooms. Or maybe not so quietly,
but at least in the privacy of their own living rooms. Kind or like the right
did for the most part in 2012.
Whether
you can understand how they draw a single conclusion that they subscribe to or
not, they still have a right to disagree with you. That is what this is
democratic process is all about, right?.
And President Trump is going to work hard to win the right an
opportunity to disagree with the left, I hear.
They don’t understand why we
don’t believe abortion (which has been protected by law since 1973) is in
imminent danger of disappearing; that we will round up all the Latinos and ship
them back to Mexico and points south (remember they take him completely
literally and not a bit seriously); that the LGBT will have to become an
underground organization that can only meet in mosque basements—oh wait,
probably not there; that Donald Trump will create too many jobs in America and then what are all the underdeveloped
nation’s workers supposed to do (yup, heard that one this week); that Trump is
“Hitleriean,” (so they still don’t get that the Nazi’s were socialists, that like Obama
Hitler also hated Jews, that gun control was critical to his ability to hold
power and that he used racial division to galvanize his power base).
Maybe
I could believe Trump benefitted from racial division that galvanized a power
base but I can’t fathom they think he created the situation in less than a year
when eight years of Obama’s racial hate speech had nothing to do with it.
The
point is that on their planet, which incredibly is also our planet, the left
thinks the right is as completely screwed up as we think they are. No really.
They do think that.
And
wouldn’t it be nice if we could all find some common ground to advance the
great cause that is America? But that very thing is what I think they are
calling “Hitlerian” which once again has me admitting I don’t really understand
what they want.
I do
not envy Donald Trump in his objective to unite America. I’m not sure the left
can ever be made happy but I will be the first to admit that I do not share
their world view on hardly anything (thank God). And, honestly, I don’t think
they want to be united. And I don’t think the media would let it happen, but you already know what
I think of those bottom-feeding creatures of the dark.
This
morning, reading the opposition newsletter that passes for our local paper—you
probably get one too if you haven’t decided it’s too filthy to have in the same
house as your children—I read an editorial-as-news piece of propaganda by The
Washington Post (The Denver Post has its own reporters--some kids named Noelle and Danika and
Jesse who try to write big person stories but they apparently all want to work
for the Associated Press one day instead).
The
WP described (without attribution, of course) Trump’s Inaugural Acceptance
Speech as “combative” and “an ominous portrait of the nation,” “dark.” In Margaret Taley’s opinion (one can only
assume she fancies herself a reporter) Trump’s message made “little effort to
reach beyond his political base or reassure foreign leaders.”
In
contrast the coverage I watched on Fox News described it as the most uplifting
speech in recent inaugural history. That a reason for hope has been extended to
middle class families who felt entirely disenfranchised by the Obama regime;
jobs are coming back to the rust belt; the oil and gas industry can expect a
recovery; Trump intends to focus much of his job creation effort (as opposed to
more welfare) on helping inner city youths find legal and productive work; that
our streets will once again become safe to walk without fear of getting caught
in the crossfire of a gangland shooting.
And
that the guiding principles in all decisions and policies will be America and
American citizens which seems like something a US President shouldn’t have to
reassure folks of but here we are. And
the fact he wants to do that actually upsets the left. No, I’m serious. In their living rooms that’s
“Hitlerian.”
So the above paragraphs paint a
pretty stark contrast, yes? If nothing else it would be swell if both sides
agreed to disagree on whether or not the glass is half full instead of trying
to bend each other to our respective wills, bayonet the wounded and take no
prisoners. Aaaargghhh.
I’m not trying to say we should
all hold hands and sing Kumbayah. Ick. Make sure you know who you’re talking to
but it’s ok to talk to each other about how goofy the other side is. I do not
hate most of them. But I do hate a lot of them. Hate is such a horrible word
and it really offends the more sensitive liberals which makes me wonder what
they call it when their side murders police officers, beats people for wearing
“Make America Great Again” clothing, burns the American Flag, takes a knee at
football games or says some of the incredibly hateful, blasphemous things they
say when given a microphone.
In
his book “Left Turn,” Glen Grossclose, a Stanford researcher and economics
professor (at least when he wrote the book), describes all political thought as
circular. In other words, we tend to read and watch sources that reinforce our
political views. We tend to hang out
with and talk to people who reinforce our political views (take the state of California
for example). We inevitably continue to reach the same conclusions we have
always reached because our world view is a pretty fundamental part of who we
are and limited exposure to theories or even evidence to the contrary are not
likely to change either side’s minds.
Talk
about dark and hopeless. Unless maybe you woke up this morning seeing the glass
as half full with a pitcher of ice water right beside it. Sorry for those of you who want to hang yourselves.
By
the way, those polls that had Donald Trump’s preinauguration approval ratings
running at 40-44%? I admittedly was unable to find the info I wanted on The
Gallup Survey sample group but in CNN’s and ABC’s the sample group included 24%
and 23% Republicans respectively. Seems a little skewed.
No
matter how far left you are, how do you continue to believe a media that 2/3’s
of America professes to distrust and disbelieve with seriously good reason?
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