Incivility in Politics

Both sides have plenty to be ashamed of. But I hate hypocrisy and lies, or bad rationalizations. The point of this isn't to blame one side or the other in incivility in Politics, both sides have plenty to be ashamed of. But I hate hypocrisy and lies, or bad rationalizations. Punching your sibling and then crying, "they started it" when they hit back, is a bit chickenshit to me, and should be called out. Either side can take the high road, and "lead by example". ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni Created: 2018-07-05

If your side is trying to do better, but is falling short, is far different than just using the other sides bad behavior to rationalize your own. So this just lists some of the history of incivility in the nations politics, to call bullshit on whoever is claiming, "they started it".

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2018.06.22 The Red Hen
Co-owner of The Red Hen (Stephanie Wilkinson) demanded Sarah Sanders leave her establishment for not being left enough. Sarah and her party did, Stephanie called a mob to harass them across the street. That's what tolerance looks like in leftist America.

Black Lives Matter
The truth is the KKK has a history of less violence and influence than the BLM since BLM was founded. BLM tries to make martyrs of Black Felons, undermine our criminal justice and advance criminality, instability, and racial division. The ultimate goal is destablization of democracy, so more Marxist redistribution (injustice) can be advanced.

Iraq War
Disagree with American policy or bumbling implementations of that policy. Be anti-war or not. The U.S. may be wrong, you may legitimately disagree with a policy, but you have to be able to accept the facts of what we did, why we did it, and realistically accept uncomfortable truths or complexities that you might not like. Don't tolerate disinformation or slogans.

Nuclear Option

The "Nuclear Option" (aka Filibuster Rules) was tradition since 1806. The Senate said there was no time limit on debate, so that a Senator could stand on principles (or duty) to prevent bad law from getting enacted, by debating it to death (called the filibuster). This guaranteed that new laws would have to have super-majority support. Democrats broke the tradition, and shot themselves in the foot.

Conclusion

I know it looks like I'm blaming all the bad behavior in History on the Democrats or Progressives. I'm not. I'm contrasting the popular narrative in our schools, media and by the left, that they are the saints, and the other side is always at fault. As soon as they can admit that their shit does stink, just as bad as the other side, we can make progress. Not because the conservatives/Republicans are saints, they just have an older and more mature demographic. When you're young and gullible, every cause is the most important one in the universe: you haven't yet learned to value moderation, skepticism, manners, harmony and leaving others alone. So everything is a cause, and their ability to moderate (including tone and hysterics) just isn't there yet. And more young people are Democrats and are used by the Democrats as their sock puppets.

So the right's PRIME motivation is NOT sensationalizing how bad everything is to enact change, even if they use it as a tool like the left does. Their position is towards stability and "things aren't that bad" is different than the chicken-little left that sees every crisis as an opportunity to prey on youth and gullible or disenfranchised minorities to get change -- if things stop "progressing" to the left, then it's the end of civilization and we're reverting back to slavery, Jim Crow, when women couldn't vote or get birth control or abortions, and other excuses for cater-walling to get out the vote, protests or things that draw attention (and money/votes) to their coffers. The sides motivations are different, so the behaviors are different.

One of the key points of this article is to refute the utterly inane claim that "this all started with Trump". No it didn't. There has always been a bit of incivility in politics -- what's changed is that since the 1970's the Democrats not only convinced themselves they're right on everything (especially the stuff that the History and the facts proves them wrong on)... and that they are morally superior, and thus anything they do is justified: lie, scream obscenities, punch a Nazi in the face (and all conservatives or people who don't think like them are closet-Nazi's), take away their rights. They can suppress free speech, undermine the Constitution (1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 9th, and 10th amendments), and so on, and that their side does nothing wrong -- but when you show them they have, it's OK because it was justified by the other side's far milder reposes to their prior agitations.

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