American politics

[Jurgen the German]

Without wishing ill of anyone the world is better off without Graham, McConnell and Widdecombe. A lot less hate in the world.

With all due respect, we really need to move away from this kind of thinking. How would you react if Joe Biden, Jeremy Corbyn or Bernie Sanders passed away and you saw similar comments from people on the right?

If it were Trump, I'd understand why emotions would run much higher, but most people vote differently for all sorts of reasons—upbringing, life experiences, geography, to name just a few.

I'm very much a centre-left voter, but this divisive rhetoric doesn't help anyone. It feels as though both sides increasingly see the other as an existential threat, and that mindset only deepens the divide.

 

[MartyFunkhouser]

With all due respect, we really need to move away from this kind of thinking. How would you react if Joe Biden, Jeremy Corbyn or Bernie Sanders passed away and you saw similar comments from people on the right?

If it were Trump, I'd understand why emotions would run much higher, but most people vote differently for all sorts of reasons—upbringing, life experiences, geography, to name just a few.

I'm very much a centre-left voter, but this divisive rhetoric doesn't help anyone. It feels as though both sides increasingly see the other as an existential threat, and that mindset only deepens the divide.

When Trump goes I am going to have the day off and have my own MartyFunkhouser Bank Holiday

 

[Lost Mango]

With all due respect, we really need to move away from this kind of thinking. How would you react if Joe Biden, Jeremy Corbyn or Bernie Sanders passed away and you saw similar comments from people on the right?

If it were Trump, I'd understand why emotions would run much higher, but most people vote differently for all sorts of reasons—upbringing, life experiences, geography, to name just a few.

I'm very much a centre-left voter, but this divisive rhetoric doesn't help anyone. It feels as though both sides increasingly see the other as an existential threat, and that mindset only deepens the divide.

They all inflicted, or attempted to inflict, misery on people dressed up in bigoted religious fervour. The two Americans both have blood of their hands through the over-turning of Roe vs Wade and hawkish policies. Widdecombe voted every time against LGBTQ+ progress. This was about their choices to use either genuinely held beliefs, in the case of Widdecombe, or politically convenient beliefs that furthered their causes that had no personal impact on them, often went against science, but impacted millions of people and made their lives worse just to booster the political chances of McConnell, Graham and others. The two Americans were also massive enablers of the paedophilic rapist-in -chief and for the gerrymandering of the Supreme Court. They are both major instruments in the erosion of the Constitutional democracy in the USA.

I am more than happy to apologise and retract my position if anyone can show me positives that any of these three did that balance the books even in the slightest. Likewise if you can show me the hatred and bigotry that Corbyn or Sanders or their ilk have based their legislative record on and the impacts it has had. Biden has a mixed record, due to his support for genocide and US intervention in Libya and the Middle East.

Although, again, in my opinion, the appeal to heal the divide, whilst worthy and I don't oppose that, the false equivalence of what the two sides of the political divide do is a poor starting point to that approach.