Election 2018

[David Horn]

(10-27-2018, 09:59 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(10-27-2018, 02:52 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The approach of no division and listening can only be applied to a relatively few people on the other side who are willing to listen, as I said before. That may be enough, at least as long as some degree of democracy still exists.

Well, a hater just murdered a bunch of people at prayer, following on the heels of another hater going after a bunch of blues.  Pardon if I am against hate and those who preach hate.  

They are still acting like lone nuts.  They are not forming groups or looking to escape cleanly to repeat their acts.  They are not gathering a following of those who applaud, unlike the old spirals of violence of the Industrial Age.

But I still believe we are going to have to unify rather than hate and ridicule.

Granted, it is easy to ridicule people like you and Galen.  You just look so ridiculous to those who buy into the stereotypes.

We may be on the brink of chaos, if lone nuts continue to reek havoc.  At some point, the structure of society starts to crumble in earnest, and restoring it is nearly impossible -- at least in the short term.  So no.  I don't think it's a case of both-sides-do-it.  Both sides do things that are negative,  but this is almost totally an alt-right problem.  It's not Antifa or radical socialists that's foaming at the mouth.