Our country is in trouble. It is
descending into a polarized climate of hate and rage, and, as we have seen so
often in the recent past, violence. We have witnessed wanton destruction in
Ferguson, Baltimore, and Milwaukee; we have seen anti-police riots and
killings; we have watched masked thugs vandalize and burn to prevent free
speech.
Whatever happened to civil dialog?
To friendly persuasion? To fair and honest debate? Instead we are treated to
the bloodied head of a decapitated Trump and a play featuring the assassination
of the President disguised as Julius Caesar? Is there no limit to the
vulgarities and the outrageous lies?
Last week a Bernie Sanders supporter
and fan of Rachel Maddow fired his rifle into Republicans practicing baseball
and almost succeeded in assassinating Congressman Scalise. For one day
Democrats and Republicans condemned the violence and called for unity. But not
two days passed before the New York Times resurrected the debunked canard of
the assault on Gabby Gifford to direct the blame on Republicans. Right on cue,
Congressional Democrats resumed their attack on President Trump, and the
President fired back with a barrage of tweets to further inflame the Left. The
war hardly took a breath.
In this case, as in so many others, we
can draw a straight line between hate, rage, and violence. What is truly
appalling, in my view, is that this mindless assault on the fabric of our
society is abetted by a biased mainstream media that has abandoned
investigative journalism in favor of leftist propaganda.
For the most part, the Left is
focused on what it believes to be the illegitimate presidency of Donald Trump.
It may very well be that nothing will change until he leaves (or is forced out
of) office. What then? Will our Constitution have survived? Or will we be
kicking around its ashes? The haters should think about that.
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