Most of us see the division in our country….it is really bad in our politics and this country is in trouble when the people that govern hates about half of the population.
At September’s televised memorial service for Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump commented on the conservative commentator’s character, saying, “He did not hate his opponents; he wanted the best for them.” He then added, “That’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponents. And I don’t want the best for them.”
Like too much of the political class across the ideological spectrum, Trump is prone to despising those he disagrees with. It raises questions about why people should ever submit to the governance of those who hate them—and whether politicians realize they’re a big part of what brought us to this unfortunate moment.
“It’s long past time for all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree,” Trump had told the nation on the day of Kirk’s assassination, at a perhaps more self-aware moment. “This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today.”
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Trump and his allies regularly accuse their opponents of anti-Americanism—”I really believe they hate our country,” Trump said in July. Trump’s 2016 Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, dismissed her foes as a “basket of deplorables,” characterizing them as “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic—you name it.” As a presidential candidate in 2008, Barack Obama sniffed at many small-town dwellers as “bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them.”
No matter which of the big political parties wins national office, around half the people over whom the victors exercise power know they’re governed by people who hate them—and they return the favor.
Among Americans, partisan hostility is intensifying. “About three-quarters (73 percent) of voters who identify themselves as Republican agree that ‘Democrats are generally bullies who want to impose their political beliefs on those who disagree,'” a poll by the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics found in 2022. “An almost identical percentage of Democrats (74 percent) express that view of Republicans.”
https://reason.com/2025/11/06/politicians-make-political-tensions-worse/
I can understand the opposing of views but these days it has gone so much further…..it is entering into the twilight zone of hatred.
This cannot continue on this path or it will be curtains for sure.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
Like most things in modern-day America, I fear it is too late. The hatred and resentments are already too deeply established, and reinforced by statements like that one made by Trump about his opponents. I do not see any hope of changing this in the future, unless they can find another JFK to potentially reunite the broken nation. That seems unlikely.
Best wishes, Pete.
Seems very unlikely and we are in for some long tiring years. chuq
You assessment in this post has much legitimacy of thought and ethos of our time.
Thanx Carl chuq
One thing I do not understand: somewhere there is a move to insist that people are supposed to have their (apparently) adult name on their birth certificate. WHY. If you are a married woman, I don’t think your married name is going to magically be added to your birth certificate. Didn’t know it had to be.
In a way that would immediately eliminate every married woman in the country, unless she married a man with the same last name as hers…
You’re absolutely right. But this is exactly what they want, Judy. In their eyes women should have no rights at all and should be completely subjugated by their male family members while girls and after marriage under the complete control of their husbands. Most politicians won’t come right out and say it but some of the people backing these weasels, especially in the far right religious community, come right out and declare that they would like to see the 19th amendment repealed, and restrict women to “traditional” roles. Noem came right out and said it. ‘We’ve been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country.’
Appears so I wrote about this earlier….it is pure hatred and not wanting your opponents to vote. chuq
Never discuss politics or religion…isnt that the age-old advice we are now choosing to ignore? It’s sad because, before the Frump took over, people got along by simply not choosing to fight every single grievance…but the Frump loves chaos and hatred – he is about to “wag the dog” by going to war with a country who did what ICE did…
Well said John chuq