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aviastar|1352493415|3302034 said:Ksinger- I don't disagree with anything you've said about the GOP, but a dead pig in a Romney shirt with barbed wire wrapped around its head was left on the doorstep on a Romney campaign office in southern CA this morning. The Dems ran ads of their candidates shooting Rebublican zombies in the head. Jay-Z substituted the name Romney for the word 'bitches' in his song onstage with President Obama standing right there with him. Mr. Romney was also threatened by assasination attempts, just like President Obama.
The Democratic Party doesn't have to have this conversation in the national spolight right now because they won this election; good for them. Doesn't mean they have nothing to work on.
The nastiness, the polarization is widespread across all parties, among all demographics. If we, as individual people, want to work on fixing some of this polarization we can't assume that party affiliation, or lack thereof, lets people off the hook for bad behavior and poor choices. If we want to reject the kind of language and tactics you cited then they must be rejected across the board. All parties, candidates, and citizens should post-mortem a campaign in light of the prinicples and morality they wish to uphold and see where they could have done better.
Well said. No one gets a free pass just because they "think like you". There was a complete lack of civility - - Eva Longoria, anyone? - - by quite a few Dems. And that isn't to say that the other parties can act like they were above the fray; there is evidence to the contrary.
I don't like the guy and never have. I think he's an empty suit worn by an ego. But, being ugly about him won't make him not President, will it? There isn't a point in being disrespectful in the vein of Jay-Z or others. And using one's celebrity as a platform for said behavior is beyond classless. (I have to say, though, if these are his friends, what does that say about him? Civility could start with the President himself. )