Can this place too tone things down?

I’m not sure we need to get along. I thought secession was a viable option.

 

The disappointing part of this forum is that it is a mostly well educated membership and yet the vitriol and hyperbole is present in every thread.

With a general population that embraces inaccurate memes and hateporn social media sites for their news I don't see how the pattern can be reversed.

 

Yesterday I saw some old fart (at the corner intersection of church no less) holding a homemade sign that said “if you voted for Biden you are a (frigging) moron” - or something to that effect. I assume he was motivated to get out after the shooting, but who knows.

So I think the answer to your question is no.

Even though that guy is just one individual, I think that’s still the general tenor of Trumps base. Even right at the scene of the shooting, you may have noticed some in the crowd turning around and flipping off the cameras for… reasons.

These people don’t do debate or logic.

 

Simply a reflection of the country as a whole. This is where we are.

 

Americans in general are fine folks. I hope we can avoid a bloodbath. If it comes to that I might just inject bleach into my veins.

 

(A completely normal thing in America happens)

Response: Cant we be nice to each other for a while? (but not change anything fundamental about this country)

 

You should have just told him he was a follower of Hitler and added an admonishment to get along.

 

Abraham Lincoln

 

"These people..."

You should get a load of yoooz ppl. Talk about "don't debate or logic[sic]".

Have your daily Trumpgasms on here, rabidly spittling vitriol, condescension, and disdain, then project everything y'all are, across the aisle...

It's your mirror reflection that you're despising. "Th[o]se people" are your people, reciprocating the same radioactivity you're emanating.

 

Totally agree. I think we could list every issue and its particular spectrum of solutions. Often, big picture, the goal is the same. It’s just a disagreement on how to achieve the same goal. And the debate over the best solutions should be what is focused on. That’s healthy. It’s the classification of everyone who doesn’t agree with me is evil is what is not healthy. I think a lot of that is due to bad actor instigators and poor information sources and an over the top adherence to some ideology which clouds judgement and rational thought.

In the end extremists will do what they always do, but I think the rest of us ( vast majority) need to take a step back and realize that the issues we debate have not changed much and there is certainly no reason to wish violence on your fellow man because I don’t get my way.

 

If anyone thinks this site is a dysfunctional mess I'd invite you to my next family Thanksgiving for comparison.

 

Look we can all come together and support arms sales to client states and increasing the military budget, lets all get back to backing the political violence that doesn't affect us personally and kills other people outside our borders.

 

I didn’t say it. He said it …

 

You’re in the weeds on your opposition to others solutions. What is the bigger goal? Also debate the ideas, not the person.

 

Yes, let's start by stopping all Trump hit-posts OPs that the Leftists inundate us with daily.