It's getting worse. All over America, people want to shut down civil discourse about the issues we face. It seems that today's motto is "agree with me or just shut up".
I just heard Rush Limbaugh say that he would no longer comment on Donald Trump and his campaign manager because no matter what he says he is attacked by both sides as either endorsing Trump or unfairly targeting Trump.
Earlier, I read an article about a professor at Marquette who is being forced out because he had the temerity to stand up for a student when that student was chastised for speaking out against gay marriage. It's the new rage in academia that any view with which the leftist majority does not agree is now hate speech and racist. Think of the chalk markings of "Trump 2016" that were soooo upsetting to the poor darlings at Emory University the other day.
Hillary Clinton won't debate Bernie Sanders because Sanders is running a "negative campaign". That negative campaign consists of pointing out what Hillary has said and done and explaining how he would handle it differently. In other words, it's not a negative campaign at all, but Hillary is trying to shut Bernie down. In essence, Hillary is saying to Sanders that she will debate him, but only if he agrees in advance not to disagree with her.
Then we have the thugs who have tried to shut down the Trump rallies. Many of these "protesters" show up as Bernie Sanders supporters, although there is some who think that they are actually paid by the Clinton campaign to disrupt the Trump events in the name of Sanders. It's an old trick last used by Richard Nixon in pre-Watergate days.
Turn on the TV and watch some of the people on panels on cable news scream at each other. Even if they don't scream, they talk right past each other. It's rare that these talking heads ever acknowledge the validity of anything their opponent says.
These are terrible developments for our country.
I just heard Rush Limbaugh say that he would no longer comment on Donald Trump and his campaign manager because no matter what he says he is attacked by both sides as either endorsing Trump or unfairly targeting Trump.
Earlier, I read an article about a professor at Marquette who is being forced out because he had the temerity to stand up for a student when that student was chastised for speaking out against gay marriage. It's the new rage in academia that any view with which the leftist majority does not agree is now hate speech and racist. Think of the chalk markings of "Trump 2016" that were soooo upsetting to the poor darlings at Emory University the other day.
Hillary Clinton won't debate Bernie Sanders because Sanders is running a "negative campaign". That negative campaign consists of pointing out what Hillary has said and done and explaining how he would handle it differently. In other words, it's not a negative campaign at all, but Hillary is trying to shut Bernie down. In essence, Hillary is saying to Sanders that she will debate him, but only if he agrees in advance not to disagree with her.
Then we have the thugs who have tried to shut down the Trump rallies. Many of these "protesters" show up as Bernie Sanders supporters, although there is some who think that they are actually paid by the Clinton campaign to disrupt the Trump events in the name of Sanders. It's an old trick last used by Richard Nixon in pre-Watergate days.
Turn on the TV and watch some of the people on panels on cable news scream at each other. Even if they don't scream, they talk right past each other. It's rare that these talking heads ever acknowledge the validity of anything their opponent says.
These are terrible developments for our country.
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