Last night CNN put on a televised “Town Hall” meeting on guns. I didn’t watch it, but from what I’ve heard my impression was that it was neither civil nor productive. (Astonishing, I know.)
Charles Cooke comments on it, here. He calls it a “disaster for our discourse”.
All comity and presumption of goodwill is rapidly boiling away in America. A glance at the history of civil wars, going all the way back to Rome, should fill any honest observer of the current scene with a dark foreboding. We are at the point now where a critical threshold is being crossed: the widespread ascription of irremediable moral evil to a rival political faction. This is a prerequisite of, and generally a precursor to, publicly sanctioned violence. I hope I am exaggerating the severity of this crisis, but I fear I am not.
P.S. Just wondering: in the aftermath of the Parkland atrocity, has anyone blamed the shooter? If so, I must have missed it.
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Pretty soon this over the top emotional bullying by the anti gun media/left will meet a backlash. The emotions of these high school kids are understandable, up to a point, and that point is where groups and deep pocket interests over take the students and cast them aside. Sort of like the left did with the Occupy movement.
It has been this way for a long time.
These people are incapable of thought. Even if they were once, they have been brainwashed by Hollyweird. They cannot be allowed to make decisions for themselves. They cannot be allowed to vote. They especially cannot be allowed to vote to bring in more similar subhumans.
Harold,
Ah, but they can vote. So there we are.
Apparently, when Dana Loesch was leaving the stage last night, the crowd was chanting “Burn her!”
Things are getting very brittle here.
This described the CNN spectacle much the same way: http://thefederalist.com/2018/02/22/cnns-shameful-town-hall-is-a-clarifying-moment-on-guns/#.Wo8IHA-Sec8.twitter
No offense, but if you think specific demographics voting is the problem then you don’t understand the problem. Those demographics, as Malcolm pointed out, vote and that is just reality.
Also, calling people “subhumans” is just gauche, it accomplishes nothing. Anyone who agrees with you is just going to be unmoved, if not embarrassed. And no one who disagrees with you in the slightest is going to be persuaded.