There are many perfectly legitimate criticisms of Donald
Trump. Whether or not he is currently
behaving circumspectly in regard to relationships with women, he certainly
seems to have been inappropriate in the past.
He expresses himself in inflammatory ways causing embarrassment to our
country and creeping us closer to open conflict with North Korea. However, everything he does and says is not
wrong.
Unfortunately, there is a liberal element in our society
which seems bent on making him out to be the villain and idiot in every
possible situation. Things he says which
are perfectly within reason are twisted in grotesque ways to seem nasty. The current issue of condolence calls seems
to be an example of this.
I listened to what Congresswoman Frederica Wilson had to
say. I have also listened to the
video/audio released by one of the widows who received a condolence call from
Trump. He was compassionate, praised the
fallen soldier, asked the widow questions about her family and invited her to
visit him in the oval office if she was in Washington.
Wilson, in addition to her earlier negative comments, is now
declaring that she must be a “rock star” because Trump is paying attention to what
she is saying. I think it was her
purpose to put herself on the national stage right from the get-go, and that
she is guilty of using a widow’s pain for her own political gain.
Liberals need to back off and recognize that when they
criticize everything, they lose the validity of all of their criticisms…even
the legitimate ones. Of course, this is
also true of conservatives. Although it
wasn’t as extreme with Obama as it has been with Trump, conservatives made a
lot of ridiculous jabs. One which was
especially offensive to me was the citing of Psalm 109:8 May his
days be few; may another take his office.
That was a disgusting misuse of God’s word. People may think they are being clever, when
they are actually repulsive and harming the cause they seek to promote.
A couple of decades ago, I was on a three-county board for
Health Systems Agency. One evening when
we were reviewing an application from Planned Parenthood, pro-lifers showed up
for public comment and threw pictures of aborted fetuses on the table in front
of those of us on the board. There were
others on the board beside me who were pro-life, and we were just
cringing. The person chairing the
meeting actually said, “you are harming your own cause.”
When people feel so strongly about something that their
emotions take over and rational thought disappears, they run the risk of
torpedoing themselves and their position.
They look like madmen lashing out at every possible misstep on the enemy’s
part, instead of targeting the specific problems over which they have a
worthwhile complaint.
Both liberals and conservative are, and have been, guilty of
this. If this doesn’t stop, our society
will dissolve into chaos as we shred one another.
A house divided
against itself, cannot stand. Abraham
Lincoln
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