I mostly agree, but I have not seen an outstretched hand. I could just sample a few Presedential twitter posts from the last week to see the President of the United States say something condemning, contemptible, and shameless about elected officials of both parties and our American institutions like the FBI, CIA, DOJ, and also our foreign allies, while effusively praising tyrants and butchers. JMO.
On a side note I have gone through almost 7 pages of this stuff now and I was ready to give up on this forum until after the elections. I can understand the desire to want to believe conspiracies when stuff isn't going the way you figured, but it's not my thing and I don't respect that kind of thinking. I have a lower opinion of this forum than yesterday.
I appreciate your post @Jazzhead .
Thanks,
@Once-Ler I appreciate that you participate here.
Both sides need to calm down, cool down, realize that a moment is here, a propitious moment. Not to ratchet up the rhetoric, but to recognize this to be a potential turning point where folks are LOOKING for leadership. Trump did make an appeal to unity, and the Dems slapped it down. Trump, no doubt, has or will respond in kind and the moment will pass.
If you ask most of here who started it, and they'll say the Dems. Ask the other side, and they blame us. Don't know who you think started it, and when, but the hate has spread like a fungus.
Ari Fleisher is right - Bernie Sanders is not to blame for his supporter almost succeed in murdering multiple Republican Congressman. And Donald Trump is not to blame for his supporter mailing bombs to a clutch of big Dems. But since this bridge has been crossed, by supporters on both sides, it is incumbent on both sides to exhibit leadership, not agitation.
Trump at least made a gesture to do so. And Ari Fleischer is right - Trump has to think long and hard whether he'd rather speak to his adoring rallies or to the rest of us, who don't want to see this political cold war turn hot. Besides - the POSITIVE GOP message is jobs and prosperity, here and now, and directly the result of GOP policies. Fear can be a motivator, and the Dems are masters at stoking it. So is Trump.
BUT TRUMP IS NOT ON THE BALLOT. The choice in two weeks is whether to continue this prosperity, or place it at risk.