I have been writing this blog since September 2020. I have
written well over 500 pieces that I have posted. I pride myself on what I write being researched
and put in a common-sense style that is easy to understand. People can comment,
so I have just about as many comments as I have pieces written. Most of the
comments are very positive and respectful but every once in a while, I get a
comment that just throws me for a loop. Yesterday was one of those days.
Yesterday, I received a comment that just showed me what is
wrong with America, and particularly what is wrong with the Republican Party. My
last blog was about the Troops being sent to Washington and what was wrong with
that. The reply that I got back had nothing to do with what I had just posted. This
is what I received from an unknown reader: “So you believe this libtard propaganda?
Under pedo Joe Biden, this country is being handed to China. The Demtards all
want power and control, and as much of your tax dollars as they can take from
you. They want you to depend on government and to have no say in your
governance (no freedom of speech, no guns for personal protection), to live on
the streets, be addicted to drugs, own nothing, and pretend to be happy. They
align with the Democratic Socialist Party of Germany and the Nazi Party. Your
freedom is the demtards lack of control. They want a few powerful at the top and
the working class to be the working poor. They only want a two-class system:
wealthy, powerful elitists at the top, and then the rest of us to be poor and
dependent on the government. That is where their control is most powerfully.
Beware of politicians offering free things. Nothing is free, and your freedom
is the most coveted thing that you have. Don’t give it away.” I wasn’t
really surprised, but I thought it deserved a rebuttal.
First was, of course, the insults. Libtard and Demtards are
very common insults among many of the Trump supporters. It seems to just amplify
the lack of understanding of what is actually happening, so they just cover up
their lack of knowledge with insults. By knowledge, I don’t mean lack of
education. What I mean is that this individual can’t look at a situation
accurately and come to a conclusion that makes sense, or they don’t look at the
situation with honest eyes, so they resort to insults. Also, calling Joe Biden “pedo Joe” is just
another insult that has no substance about who Joe Biden is. What is really sad
is the fact that the person is insinuating that Joe Biden is a pedophile two
days before the Epstein victims are giving a news conference in Washington,
D.C. We are finally going to hear the voices of the victims of the Epstein
scandal. I am pretty sure that you won’t see Biden's name on the list, but I am
pretty sure you will see Trump's name on the list if the files are ever released.
This person stated that the demtards wanted all the power
and control and as much of our tax dollars as they can take from you. That is
really interesting because the privatizing of Government functions like schools
and prisons that the Republicans love is just that, taking as much of our tax
dollars from us and letting other people get rich. How did Musk get so rich? What
about government subsidies and incentives? I don’t think he realizes we have
paid for much of Starlink and SpaceX. But is those damn Demtards who want to
help people that is the problem. We can’t have government function for the good
of the people, but it is alright to give billionaires more money and then pay
less taxes on their inflated profits.
He talks about personal freedoms that the Democrats have
wanted to take away, such as free speech. The two most important free speech
issues our forefathers fought for were freedom of the press and the right to
protest. The Trump administration attacks the press with a vengeance if network
news reports anything negative, and he threatens to pull their broadcast license.
That is not the Democrats attacking free speech, but Trump. In Florida, where I
live, they want to suppress our right to protest. They say they want to curb
violence, but I think that is a lie. On January 6th, I watched our Capitol
being violently attacked, but the republicans thought that was just fine.
Everyone who attacked the Capitol and attacked the Capitol Police was pardoned.
This is not the Democrats doing this.
I just found it so hard to fathom what this person was
trying to say. Our freedoms are being taken away daily. We have National Guard troops
entering our city like the Troops sent by King George into Boston before our Revolution.
Sending those troops into Boston did an awful lot to start our Revolution. The first
shots of the Revolution were fired by those same British troops. Trump is showing
that he does not honor State rights, and he proves that by sending in those troops.
Calling Democrats names and making up false accusations about them being
pedophiles or Nazis just makes the accuser look stupid and uninformed.
This is the 21st century, and the answers are
there to be found without you leaving your home. In today's digital age, all
the lies and all the truths will live forever for future generations to study
like they are right there. Lies will not rewrite history. History always finds
the truth.
One of the most notable aspects of the our current cultural era is the tendency by the political far right to reduce everything to insults. It's frankly not a very intelligent response to anything. The "Demtard" and "Libtard" labels are themselves, well, stupid, but apparently they make the person using them feel good, and they suspend the obligation on the part of those using the terms to think about what they're saying and promoting.
ReplyDeleteFWIW, in some quarters politicians are doing the same. The Wyoming Secretary of State, for example, who is clearly hoping to move up the political ladder can hardly speak without decrying "RINOs" or the "left wing media". He simply can't. It's his version, I guess, of doing the same thing.
I think it was James Michener who said 'violence is the last refuge of the ignorant.' I think this is another example of that. Name calling is just another form of violence. As for history always finding the truth, sadly it doesn't. History is written by the winner. So not always reliable.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that all of this is a failure if our educational systems. Not teachers so much, as administrators who set the rules and goals teachers have to follow. People are not taught to think critically anymore. If their life is not perfect they are taught it is someone else's fault, someone different than them. They have been taught power means right. We have a very long road ahead of us if we are to survive a a nation.