Pendragon_6
01-31-2006, 08:49 AM
January 31, 2006
John Conlin
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However, there is one area where in polite circles it is still acceptable to really reach deep down into one’s emotions and truly hate someone – spitting mad, eye bulging, blood pumping hate – and it is politics. Hate is presently practiced much more by the left than the right but neither has clean hands in this kerfuffle (thanks James Taranto).
Interestingly enough, many on the left also include Catholics and evangelical Christians as acceptable targets of hate but that is another article. Listen to the national Democrats and the blog-o-sphere, the amount of vicious hate spewed is rather amazing. Try substituting the words right-wing (or left-wing), Republican, George Bush, etc, with black or woman or gay and see how the venom sounds now. Would you say that in polite company? I doubt it.
So why is it acceptable to spew vengeance on someone whose political beliefs differ from your own? Shouldn’t the marketplace of ideas – with facts and results guiding us – settle these disputes? If there really is the truth (and there is), shouldn’t our collective efforts be spent attempting to discover it?
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The left has made politics in this country into a war for the heart and soul of America. This war has turned American politics into a guerilla campaign. Hit fast, hit hard, live to fight another day.The left has brought the ire of Americans who still love their country down upon themselves. A well-deserved ire. Pendragon_6
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John Conlin
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However, there is one area where in polite circles it is still acceptable to really reach deep down into one’s emotions and truly hate someone – spitting mad, eye bulging, blood pumping hate – and it is politics. Hate is presently practiced much more by the left than the right but neither has clean hands in this kerfuffle (thanks James Taranto).
Interestingly enough, many on the left also include Catholics and evangelical Christians as acceptable targets of hate but that is another article. Listen to the national Democrats and the blog-o-sphere, the amount of vicious hate spewed is rather amazing. Try substituting the words right-wing (or left-wing), Republican, George Bush, etc, with black or woman or gay and see how the venom sounds now. Would you say that in polite company? I doubt it.
So why is it acceptable to spew vengeance on someone whose political beliefs differ from your own? Shouldn’t the marketplace of ideas – with facts and results guiding us – settle these disputes? If there really is the truth (and there is), shouldn’t our collective efforts be spent attempting to discover it?
__________________________________________________ _______
The left has made politics in this country into a war for the heart and soul of America. This war has turned American politics into a guerilla campaign. Hit fast, hit hard, live to fight another day.The left has brought the ire of Americans who still love their country down upon themselves. A well-deserved ire. Pendragon_6
__________________________________________________ _______
In Full
Opinion Editorials (http://www.opinioneditorials.com/freedomwriters/jconlin_20060131.html)