I'd just finished telling BN that the left aren't willing to compromise, then you popped in and said "**** that I'm not compromising with satan's lemmings." That's a textbook example of how you put a case to rest.
I got to my polls an hour before they closed, maybe that's why. I was up there with all the other last minute voters. Haha
Forgive me if I don’t put much credence in a tabloid owned by Rupert Murdock known for sensationalism and bias. Or, for that matter, in a study published in a journal that had to make a correction on who the study was even about. More gap widening. I asked if you, personally, will not even agree that both sides are guilty of political division and otherism how do you expect to ever solve the issues that are created by it? The right is just as guilty of this all or nothing mentality. The right is just as guilty of political violence. I denounce it all. On both sides. Will you? If you can do that then there is a discussion to be had on the rest of it. If not then you actively choose to be a part of the problem and as such are not truly interested in solving any of the issues you presented.
There was a guy from the left trying to compromise early on this thread and you all told him to jump off a bridge so take a look in the mirror.
That list is getting a bit too long and the continuing incitement has come from far too many influential elites to be dismissed as an isolated rant from some lone insignificant kook. To make matters worse, this fits a wider historical pattern of intolerance and violence that goes back centuries...
No service in restaurants is being advocated by by leftists, trampling on free speech rights, stopping traffic while destroying property, and actually threatening to murder people. Anyone who is a leftist, or even a Democrat these days, is just horribly ignorant. There's just no way around it. https://www.breitbart.com/big-gover...daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20180702
Then tell your leftist friends to stop demonizing people who have a different political point of view, and wishing them serious harm. This left wing insanity has gone too far.
Where was the compromise in Obamacare? The damn government was shut down over that (and Republicans blamed of course). A huge majority of Americans were not in favor of Obamacare. Or bringing troops home. Or bargaining with terrorists. The list goes on. As for the study, you don't have to believe it. The violence and the riots and the speech silencing and road blocking and calls for violence from the left are all enough for us who are paying attention to come to the same conclusion.
And the left is the only side guilty of this? No. Both sides have played their part. Both sides are guilty. Change starts with the individual and works it’s way up. You and plenty others here can help start that change by owning up to the transgressions of your side, as I have mine, instead of only pointing fingers across the aisle. Political division can never be fixed if everyone is only interested in making it worse. Someone has to take the first step. Dealing in absolutes based on the fringe of a political group helps nothing. Do you wish to see things get better or do you just enjoy the chaos? Do you not see me doing that here and now? I denounce both sides for the roles they have played in this divide. Won’t you do the same? I think the Afordable Care Act was and is something that we need in America. I think it could have used work and a hand extended across the aisle. I hate that it and any other legislation should be passed on extreme party lines. There should be enough discussion and compromise in our government that at least some part of both sides thinks it is the right way to proceed.
I don't think he hinted anything, Mr_Truth. AO asked you how old Barack Obama was when he launched his political career in this unrepentant communist terrorist's living room:
hahahha...they are back to bashing bush again. Remember a few months ago when you guys liked him cuz he bashed trump? Yeah.....us too. lol
Well I, for one, am fed up with being a punching bag for the left. But yeah, I can forgive Lefty, if he publicly admits to his vile behaviors, and vows repentance.
Gang rape a woman and beat her into a coma and such should be executed and flown to hell, I don't care your color or your age. I would have loved to pull the switch on all of them.
No. The violence is almost entirely from the left. There were no right leaning mobs masking up and attacking Obama rallies. There were no right leaning mobs burning vehicles and smashing windows during Obama's inaugurations. There were no major public figures talking about abducting and raping Obama's kids. There were no right leaning people shooting at gatherings of democrat congressmen. There were no right leaning people kicking people out of establishments and getting in their faces. There were no right leaning people using violence to keep leftist figures from speaking at colleges and other places. There were no right leaning people threatening to axe murder republicans and their children. There were no right leaning people blocking traffic and attacking leftists with bike locks, bricks and explosives. There were no right leaning congressmen calling for attacks on Obama's cabinet. You have NOTHING to compare us with the lefts level of violence. Keep it up though and see how it turns out. We just destroyed pantifa in Portland over the weekend, and that was more of a warning than anything else.
I can admit both sides have contributed to the divisiveness. I just can't decide on the distribution of blame. I'm gonna say, maybe, 85% left, 15% right.
Can you also join me in denouncing the right’s role in creating this political divide? Otherwise it’s a hollow statement and just more status quo political gap widening. You mean the young men that were found innocent by way of DNA evidence and the confession of a man already in prison for murder and rape? Those are the ones you’d happily pull the switch on? If you truly believe that the right has no culpability in the state of the current political divide, commit no violence, speak no hate, push no otherism, and contribute no negativity whatsoever to the state of our political climate; then you either aren’t paying attention, wilfully ignore it, or at the worst choose to hide it. Peace doesn’t come through warring with each other. It leaves a winner and a loser. An end to conflict only because the other side can not go on. It leaves a side embittered and unheard. None of that is peace. Peace is found through compromise and finding similarities in our views and goals. This country needs to find peace in itself and amongst its citizens. The last thing it needs is the continued widening of the political gap. I understand the right has been harmed by the actions of some on the left. Just as the left has been harmed by some on the right. We’re all looking for a better America. Can’t we figure out how to get there together? Your mockery is noted.
By all means, give me the names of the Republican members of Congress in Washington who are currently calling on RWers to assault Democrats and their staffers. I'm unaware of any Republican mirroring Maxine Waters' sentiment and I haven't seen anyone incite everyone to go out and kill everyone who opposes Trump. I presume you possess some evidence that I am unaware of? That rings pretty hollow coming from someone who has been pointing across the aisle and exclaiming tu quoque through this entire thread. As much as I agree with you, Dave, you're not taking responsibility for the situation by lecturing RWers. A vast swath of the Left has become violently unhinged since Trump got elected and talking about Timothy McVeigh or the psychopaths who shoot up abortion clinincs isn't going to solve that problem.
"Can you also join me in denouncing the right’s role in creating this political divide? Otherwise it’s a hollow statement and just more status quo political gap widening." Lefty must repent before I make another move. I am not going to keep being played. "Your mockery is noted." Your refusal to be serious is noted. You can now go back to viewing us Racist, Nazi, Whateverophobes, in the typical manner. I will just ignore, ridicule, and go over, under, or around the obstacles that progressives put in my path.
Here is a representative example of the political divide. Who would you say is responsible? Or would you say that the blame is equally shared?
Timothy McVeigh in 1995? 23 years ago?? Another leftist who seemingly has no idea what's happening today. Incredible. The excuses for leftist madness get ever wackier.
And so he should. He wanted children exposed to sexual predators. And, perhaps inspired by Fonda, another wack has targeted children in Cleveland. http://www.cleveland19.com/story/38...land-for-large-scale-attack-on-fourth-of-july Another has been arrested for threatening to murder the children of the FCC director. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nek87q/fcc-chair-ajit-pai-threats-net-neutrality Seems abortions on demand haven't satisfied leftists sufficiently. They now want to take it a step further.
Not that I am aware. More people in the US have been killed by right wing nut cases than by terrorists or any leftists.
The left likes to put themselves in charge of who is 'right wing' and who isn't. None of their lists make any real sense.