I
loved the segment on Morning Joe which was an exchange between experts
discussing the difficulties of having an intellectual discussion between
groups with diametrically opposing positions but the desire to have
those discussions nonetheless.
I
am telling you why I, a liberal's liberal progressive on every issue,
find it extraordinarily difficult to have a rational discussion with
those who support Trump or those who support other right wing so called
"conservative" positions.
I think the reason for the difficulty and the reason these discussions devolve into explosiveness is because the positions that so called conservatives take if
implemented
would even deny life to minorities who have been trying for decades to
be given a fair shake. For persons of color the issues are obvious. If
conservatives
have
their way they gerrymander districts, they use voter suppression
techniques, they deprive people of government assistance and even CHIP
for children assistance. If people who need the help are deprived of it
death is not an outrageous possibility but conservatives do not care
and, in fact, I may jump out on a limb here, some are happy about it.
They want it to increase their ranks and decrease Democratic ranks. If
persons of color are denied these rights both voting rights, civil
rights and medical assistance these are the life threatening policies for which conservatives advocate.
Conservatives want to return to a nation of the 1950s. Anti abortion
efforts kill women by forcing them to have illegal quack abortions. They
die, often, from blood poisoning. It's their own body they want to
control and who is to tell them they cannot -- the state?
Anti
gay initiatives are deadly. Sexuality is DNA determined. So called
inhumane "conversion therapy" or praying the gay away doesn't work.
Millions of people will be forced back into the closet of lies, denied
the benefits everyone else takes for granted through marriage and other
civil rights allowed everyone else but gays will be relegated yet again
to a second class status where they must be afraid if anyone knows the
subject of their personal affectation. It is depressing and it is why
there were and even still are so many suicides among homosexuals who
love one's own sex over the other. That fact cannot be changed. It's a
question of love but the truth must be suppressed. That means death to
those who merely want what everyone else wants -- happiness by having
someone to love and love them back with all the rights that go with it.
Health
care that should be a right is given only to those who have a job or
can afford it and denied to the poor and denied in the past even to gay
couples. This makes death a distinct possibility. As Alan Grayson, the Democrat from Florida, said if Republicans get their way make sure to die and die quickly. If
Social Security and Medicare benefits for which people have worked and
that sustain them in retirement years are demolished we die. It's that
simple but Republicans do not care if we die; in fact, it means more for
the top 2%.
Those
Republicans with whom I take issue treat minorities unequally to those
things the majority takes for granted. It forces suicide as a sole
option for those who cannot lift themselves up by their boot straps
because they have no boots. Again, Republicans do not care. The empathy
gene is vacant among Republicans.
Republicans
views of war and peace are killing. How many wars have been promulgated
by those who did not serve but based this nation's entry in them on
lies that have killed thousands and forced now millions into refugee
status. Republicans, however, do not want to give them refugee status.
Where do the refugees go? They are shipped back to their own countries
facing certain death. How is this fair and how does one argue nicely
with those who want to inflict policies like that which do nothing less
than discriminate and kill.
The Republican Party now bows its head to Nazis and says some are "fine people." One is running in
California as a neoNazi for the Senate seat Diane Feinstein occupies. It
is an anathema to tolerate that position or inhabit a Party that makes
room for it. Other so called Alt Right candidates are running for
positions around the nation. This cannot stand. It is inhumane and
wrong.
Tell
me how and I will adopt a more pacific stance in argument with
Republicans but for now the administration of Donald Trump is more than
lethal it is murderous. My blood pressure rises at the prospect of his
getting away with all the illegalities --
some treasonous -- he allegedly has committed. It simply cannot happen but it may.
