#685 | Posted by boaz
Your missing my point boaz.
I agree that the rethoric on both sides is destructive. to argue who started it first is a pointless exercise, neither side will accept the responsibility
What I am saying is that there is literally one person who can change the course of our division.
No matter what you say Obama and Biden did not act anywhere near how Trump acts.
They acted like president of ALL of us and certainly far more than Trump does.
I know you won't accept that simple fact but it is true. Neither Obama or Biden, ON A DAILY BASIS, spoke with the way Trump does of his opposition.
I challenge you to post links to Obama or Biden speaking or acting in the way Trump does with his constant verbal and social media attacks, personal lawsuits against media companies, sending or threatening to send the military into cities controlled by the other party, etc. Trump's words and actions are FAR worse than ANYTHING Obama or Biden ever did.
I am not saying ordinary liberals and dems aren't using similar rhetoric, I freely admit I do
But I have no power, Trump does.
Trump can govern like a conservative, I would not like it, but I argue that we need a normal president.
He can enact all sorts of conservative policies, that is not the central problem right now.
The problem is that the man with by far the most power in our country does not govern like a conservative, he governs like madman authoritarian. He is attacking free speech (far far far more than any dem president has ever), he is suing or threatening media companies, law firms, universities and corporations to his will through the use or threat of use of the full power of the federal government (That is not conservatism), he is extorting businesses to either give him a cut or a stake in their companies-that is LITERAL communism. He is shipping ordinary people to concentration camps or warzones without trial, he is sending or threatening to send federal troops into blue cities over nothing AND SO MUCH MORE.
This is not normal, this is not how our politics have or should run.
The problem is that Trump does not govern like he is the President of all of us, he governs like the entire population are his subjects.
You will argue Obama and Biden did the same but you would be fooling yourself.
And with all that power Trump has he could, easily change the course for our nation. He could govern like he is a President, not a king, for the ENTIRE country and THAT means compromise and RESPECT.
Nothing that dems or liberals could do right now could effect the necessary change in our politics like he could. I would argue that we are in the place we are in because the democrats have been pitiful in responding to the non-stop attack on democracy that has been going on for decades-fox news propaganda, Newt Gingrich, Bush and his wars, McConnell and his efforts to make Obama a 1 term president and on and on. Dems have been pathetic in responding to this onslaught
And ever since Trump came down those escalators in 2015 he has accelerated that anti-democratic program like nothing before. He has broken norms beyond count, he has cowed the republican party and put dangerous people in his government. These people do not care about the constitution, ANY of it, they see no constraints on what they can do. That SHOULD scare even you.
And Trump could LITERALLY become one of America's greatest presidents if he led us out of this. It won't be smooth, but I think it would be a lot easier that people think. All he would need to do is STOP treating anyone who disagrees with him as enemies of the people or vermin, to STOP acting like a dictator,
Govern like a conservative not a dictator.