If you want to know about the level of political discourse in any given country, look at the way its media talks about the president.
By “talk about the president”, I don’t mean that they say nothing but positive things about them or, conversely, speak nothing but ill of them. I mean that they can have a civil discussion about the president and his policies, expressing support when one agrees or voicing firm-but-polite disagreement when one dissents. Sadly, it appears that America in recent years has departed far from this vision and set in its place a sort of circus in which commentators struggle to top each other in vitriol and outrageousness.
Don’t believe me? Look at the way journalists – not random people on Twitter or social media, actual bona fide journalists – discuss Trump. They don’t simply say they don’t like him: they are actively hoping he meets an untimely demise.
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Me too.
One unhinged wacky job like the hundreds that showed up at Cal Berkley and this could happen. If it does, I and 1,000’s of other Americans will hold the media and all these death-threaters accountable. And it won’t be pretty. There is no place they could go to escape us. We are everywhere.
This is not my country. This is not the home of the free and the brave.
This country will not be free if we continue down this path. It just breaks my heart.
f**e again
This country is going to hell
Horrific
Where is the FBI? Arrest them all
I’ll go to war on these evil bastards!
They should all be in prison!
They should all be rounded up and prosecuted