I don't post here often but I'd like to share an article about "toxic polarization"
Truth and reconciliation is painful. But to those who reject the idea of engaging across differences, I earnestly ask, what’s your endgame?
www.usatoday.com
I have a feeling some of you won't like it but it has a lot of truth to it.
Seems like from what I've seen most of you posting in this thread are hardcore conservatives (which is fine by me) but both sides are definitely guilty.
The moderates used to separate themselves from the far left/right but now the extreme sides have much greater influence within their parties.
There's some truth to it. There's some overwhelming bias to it, too.
"Only together can we discover common purpose, grapple with uncomfortable truths, and permanently overcome the historical sins and present challenges that bedevil us. America is a complex story of tragedy and triumph, awe-inspiring ideals and horrid hypocrisy, radical courage and unrealized hope."
Ovecome historical sins? The whole article proceeds from the notion that we alive today have sins to pay for. The correct adage is "Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it." It is not "Those who understand history are doomed to pay for it." A deep-rooted tenet of most mmodern civilizations is that there is no corruption of the blood. Daughters don't pay for their mothers' sins. There is a small group in this country that believes otherwise, and they will never make peace with anyone who does not cower to their demands. I think most of their demands are aimed at moving this country towards Marxism, but that doesn't matter. I'ts impossible not to notice that they aren't calling for worldwide atonement for historical sins. Slavery wasn't just in America. Then you have the issue of Japan, Germany, etc.
Moving right along to those who disike constitutional freedoms, they really have no concept of what America is. But to stay on point, those who want to limit speech, those who believe that "by any means necessary" is not just a Hitlerian slogan but a code of conduct for themselves, and similar people who hold beliefs contrary to every fiber of this nation, those people can't be dealt with except through surrender or ouster.
I could keep going, but my main point is that the article is POS. My philosophy is that you can't get ahead by looking back, expecialy looking backwards for complaints. If something is broken today, then fix it. Unfortunately, the Looney Left has already decided, 4 decades back, that it needs to keep blacks undereducated and locked into the broken public school system. So, equal opportunity is a joke for many blacks. The time for school vouchers came back in the 60s.
And BTW, the fact that equal opportunity is a joke for many blacks is not somethng you fix by dumbing down a whole system that works relatively well. You go to the root of the problem, the irreparable public school system.
www.allsides.com
