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CPT Jack Durish
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I keep hearing fictional reports of President Obama being treated as badly as President Trump is now treated. (Just wait for the responses to that first sentence.) Let's say that it's true, that President Obama's election caused rioting and looting on college campuses and in city streets. That articles of impeachment were filed within the first year of his Administration. That his children were vilified as defective. That the popular media and entertainment industry treated him as a common criminal and a traitor. So what? Now here comes the important part (I hope that you've made it this far): When is bad behavior ever an excuse for bad behavior. Didn't your mama teach you better? What lesson do you think she was instilling in you when she asked, "Just because your friends are doing it..."? Does the fact that one person commits murder give you the right to commit murder? Or rape? Or mayhem? Or any other crime? Of course, the truth (the real truth) is that President Obama was sheltered by the popular media, news and entertainment, during the eight years of his administration. That there were kooks on the fringes who burned effigies or hated President Obama because of the color of his skin. But these were outliers, never a popular movement. Yes, the birthers embarrassed themselves, but President Obama could have ended that argument by simply providing documentation, school records, etc. Indeed, inasmuch as being a natural born citizen of the U.S. why aren't all candidates for President required to submit documentation when they register their candidacy? And when did any former President mount a "Resistance" to their successor? What kind of a person does that? Why do people venerate that sort of person? No, President Trump isn't the worst thing that's ever happened to this nation. That distinction belongs to We the People who have entrusted candidacies and high office to the worst among us. It's time now to come together and keep this nation until the next election and please try to come up with better choices. Acting like petulant children isn't helping...
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Edited 7 y ago
They hit the nail on the head with this article.
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LTC Multifunctional Logistician
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I agree with the article. I think we are in store for a lot of civility if we like it or not. I'd rather call it forced civility. Because if you disagree today or have a differing opinion you are now put into another category of racist, nationalist, misogynist, climate denier, ect.
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