I just don't understand why we are so involved in hating and demonizing people who believe differently than we do. Help me out with this one.
2006-10-21 18:10:53 · 12 answers · asked by micah's mom 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
It is called dehumanizing people. Once you label the people as something other than human you feel free to do and say about anything. Another thing i think contributes to it is the attitude of political correctness, oh the social indoctrination instead of education that we force our children to do. Heck the children are being taught not to think, no good can come from that. Oh, civility starts at home with discipline and respect. Rules and real consequences, i don't advocate beating a child, i do stress discipline and believe that parents that are coddling children are the major reason for the lack of civility and the increase in hostility.
2006-10-21 19:22:54 · answer #1 · answered by mhp_wizo_93_418 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
With all respects to joelgmt and greatamerican, they obviously wasn't around when Reagan was in office. The attacks against Reagan were vicious and incredibly mean spirited. Far worse than Clinton ever received.
As to what happened to civility, I blame the liberal Democrats. Basically, they have been in power for generations, until Reagan. Sure, the Republicans may have had a President here or there, but the Congress was always Democrat.
When Reagan won, and won serious inroads into the Democrat congressional majority, soon taking the Senate, the Democrats lost it and did to Reagan what we see being done to Bush now. Notice it's always the Dems calling the Republicans Hitler, Nazis, Fascists, etc? Notice it's always the Republicans that will take grandma's social security away and starve your children? At least, that's what the Dems always tell us since Reagan.
Sure the conservatives were no saints during Clinton's presidency, but what was absent was the sheer hatred and intolerance from the conservatives. We never hated Clinton. We never wanted him dead. Sure, we thought he was a crook and a bum and shouldn't be President, but I don't ever remember the conservatives calling him Hitler, etc.
The root reason for the incivility is the liberals not being able to deal with the loss of power, and their inability to justify their liberal agenda to the American people with facts and logic.
2006-10-21 18:32:07 · answer #2 · answered by Uncle Pennybags 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The polarization started in 2000 not in 1994, because in 1994 both parties had no problems dealing with each other and producing legislation both sides agreed on. Since 2000 the losing party in any election has made it a point of demonizing the winner and producing garbage as evidence of wrong doings just to reclaim power. What was once a Congress is now 1 party doing everything including the illegal to push out those commonly elected as they just to regain power. It is sad when you have people who are such sore losers that they put their quest for retaking Congress above the welfare of this great nation.
2006-10-21 18:30:33 · answer #3 · answered by great_american2006 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It all started in 1994 when Clinton was president and the Republicans took over Congress. They decided that they had no respect for the president ( I find this ironic, as it is what they accuse Dems of being now) and they tried to stop Clinton from accomplishing anything during his two terms in office. Now that Republicans own every branch of government and have made a complete mess of the country and the world, they accuse anyone who opposes them or Bush as being unpatriotic and unAmerican.
2006-10-21 18:14:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
It just looks that way. Reality is the views here pretty much run the entire spectrum. It's partially the fault of the format which encourages quick answers, but also because people take things too personally.
2006-10-21 18:17:43 · answer #5 · answered by notme 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I feel like the liberals and democrats are truly putting my family in danger by not believing the war in Iraq is the front on the war on terrorism. They can't see past all the political B.S. that our media spews. They are influenced by celebrities instead of logic. They use the deaths of our fighting men like it is some kind of video game...All I hear for them is how much they hate Bush and our country for trying to protect them. It is pointless to talk with people who read a few blogs on the web and think they Know it all.
2006-10-21 18:27:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The world is full of people who just sit around at their computers insulting everyone.
The sad fact is these people do it simply because they get away with it. They wouldn't do it in the real world where someone could retaliate. For instance I put videos of myself playing guitar on youtube and received messages like "I hope you die in a fire" and "I hope you get ovarian cancer and die".
Youtube doesn't do anything about these people, they just let them continue to use their site.
2006-10-21 18:17:19 · answer #7 · answered by . 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
what "joelgmt said above.
the irony of it all.
And im sick of people like the one right below who repeat the campaing slogans of the right.
Similar to the cra-p they were saying about vietnam being the 'central front' in the war on communism.
Turned out that was a slogan too.
edit--- and 'great american' below is showing that they must be under 21 and cant remember back when Clinton was getting "the treatment".
2006-10-21 18:21:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sometimes people can get pretty hateful on here, and sometimes , I have to admit, I've been drawn in. But I just mainly like to debate and show why I'm a proud democrat.
2006-10-21 18:16:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unity is needed in order to have understanding instead of hatred and do what is good for the society.
2006-10-21 18:13:02 · answer #10 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋