The Message Of The GOP Is Hate And Division - And Response (3)

  • Saturday, November 28, 2015

Maybe it is me.  Maybe it is me that thinks the likes of Donald Trump or Ben Carson, Ted Cruz and some of the others represent the voting public.  I noticed and watched, again, with horror, that another shooting and killing happened in Colorado yesterday.  Couple that with some of the hysterical rhetoric of the Republican Party and wonder, or I do, just what is happening in this country.

A crazy person here and there inflamed by the rhetoric of the Trump, Carson and Cruz are "encouraged" to act out the anger spilled upon all of us innocent folk that just want to "get along." Crowd hysteria of late during one of the Trump "tent rowdies" suggested that man, black, to be roughed up a bit because he disagreed with Trump's message.  Carson's descriptions of Syria's refugee people as "mad dogs."  

The GOP of my youth is not the party I wish to affiliate with. The seeming disregard of issues that face so many people in this country go answered because the message of the GOP is hate, division, and all for the guy that already has it all.  

Remember that guy from Utah that pretended nobody was listening, suggesting that 45 percent would not vote for him because he doesn't advocate "giving away the farm." 

This community and all across the nation that have large populations of poor are not represented by the GOP.  In fact it is the GOP that wants to do away with support for this population.  This population suffers in a society of exclusion in education of our youth and then condemns the products of this group because they cannot compete with the rest of society.  

For a good portion of my adult voting experience I was a registered member of the Republican Party.  I can't support a party of hate, division and exclusion.  Voters have a very large responsibility to vote with intelligence and wisdom and not hatred and division.  Being a conservative is not a badge of honor if groups, large numbers of people, are discouraged from participating.

We do not have a leader in either party that has the vision and the courage to speak to all of us just what this country faces, not just within our borders, but our place in the world.  Lots of competing forces press on all of us and it takes a very special person or special political party to speak the words of inclusion and acceptance.  

Robert Brooks

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One event that has received very little notice from the media involved Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, Ted Cruz, and Cruz's father. All of them attended a "family values" conference, where Cruz's father gave a speech, hosted by Kevin Swanson.

This supposedly "Christian" preacher  called for the death of all LGBT people at this conference. Not a single one of them stood up and condemned him at the time he made the comment, and Cruz backpedaled only when confronted about it.

Aulcie Smith

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I have to agree with Robert Brooks on this one. There has been far too much divisive rhetoric. I mean, since 2006, it's been one hateful insult after another, hasn't it?

Divisive rhetoric like: “They’re going to try to scare people. They’re going to try to say that ‘that Obama is a scary guy. If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun!”  That certainly set the stage for his future  administration, didn't it?

And soon after there was:

“My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.” 

“I want you to argue with them and get in their face!” 

“Those aren’t the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.”(response to call for stricter border control and security.) 

“And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” 

“If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re going to punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us...” 

“You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.” (about Sarah Palin)

“Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care?"

“If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that! Someone else made that happen!” 

"I do think at a certain point you've made enough money." (Isn't he a multimillionaire?)

“I don’t believe it is possible to transcend race in this country.”(Isn't it his job to try to unite us?)

Those are just a few of Barack Obama's divisive written and spoken words. And let's not forget Homeland Security's warning against “Right Wing extremists,” predicting that "law enforcement officers will remain the primary target of (sovereign citizen) violence over the next year due to their role in physically enforcing laws and regulations." Funny how that has worked out across the nation in recent weeks, isn't it?

And every time there has been a mass shooting, the media and White House jump behind a mic to suggest it was a “Right Wing extremist” behind the tragedy. The majority of the time they have been wrong. 

In each instance, the Right generally maintained quiet until the evidence was in—just as they are in the recent Planned Parenthood case. We've been down this “let's assign blame before the facts are known” road before. When the dust settles, we find the majority of these mass shootings have been liberals with mental disorders, anti-social behaviors, and often with a history of legal and illegal drug use. In fact, early releases tell us that the PP perpetrator held no political affiliation but is yet another deranged and tortured soul whom relatives and friends describe as non-political, reclusive and “odd.”

There's much more voiced nearly every day by Democrats and this administration to divide, incite, demean, belittle, antagonize, and to spread hate among citizens. (And let's not even get in to Harry Reid!) And if a response is issued in defense or as explanation by the other side, another round of escalating insults begin. A quick review of the Sunday “Rant” column of the local paper is evidence enough of that, along with Clay Bennett editorial cartoons. No humor there. Just hate. 

And so, Robert Brooks, I suppose the take-away message from this is that those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.  

And that it applies to both parties. 

Mya Lane 

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No matter the event or "Act of Terror" (Carson) we tend to see these over the top attempts of political/social finger pointing.  Bob didn't start the trend and even I have found myself involved in them in the past, including now.  Regardless, here is a simple rebuttal to the Bob's christened GOP message of "Hate and Division". 

Last I checked the authorities were still looking for a motive for Mr. Dear's awful attack. To my knowledge Trump, Carson nor Cruz were not pointed at by any main stream talking head or investigator as being a instigator to the event by "rhetoric".  

On the day of the Birmingham Trump rally, that you mentioned above, I had the opportunity to see a local network interview Trump supporters after the rally had ended. Surprisingly the black supporters that were interviewed didn't come to same conclusion that you did on "hate, division and exclusion" that supposedly all GOP candidates possess.          

Carson just went to Jordan this past week to visit Syrian refugees. No resemblance or tone of the "mad dog" quote you gave him after I watched several news reports and conversations with refugees.  That visit shed more light on the needs and wishes of Syrian refugees than any main stream media coverage.  He is proactively asking for help based on his experience and conversations had.   

We lacked a source or quote from how Cruz proclaims the GOP message of "hate and division" but I will say that if I were forced to answer for every word spoken in my presence, I would laugh at you.  

The underlying trend of Bob's complaint is similar to that of the "safe space" movement on college campuses where individuals aren't allowed to hear or speak crowd unpopular views. When alternative ideas do come out we see individuals called out for hate speech and lack of inclusiveness, which is easily seen in multiple videos the most popular being of the young Asian student.  

Then we hear back filled reasoning of lacking and suspicious stories where hate speech is quoted from a broad general group, in this case the GOP. This of course causes others to become outraged. Bob must realize that someone pointing out how Anti-Marxist or Conservative he is doesn't exactly mean that he's anti-poor or filled with the message of "hate and division" the GOP supposedly proclaims. This is adolescent in nature if one truly believes it.  

Being that the GOP candidates consist of all cultural backgrounds, economic classes, academic backgrounds and age groups how could we even begin to believe this idea of exclusiveness, "hate and division"?    

I long for a intellectual and truth seeking society to interact with but I realize that it's all in God's plan of the second coming.   

Jimmie Webb

 


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