Assault on Dignity

Today a peaceful ballpark in Alexandria, VA was disrupted by gunfire. An untrained (thankfully) gunman opened fire on members of the United States House of Representatives as they practiced for the annual baseball game between Democrats and Republicans in the House. I don’t care that it was a practice by the Conservative members that was attacked. That is not the issue I intend to address today. What I do want to talk about is the cause of the shooting.

Liberals will claim the Conservatives brought it on themselves. Conservatives will make equally preposterous claims about the Liberals. The fact is the hate between these two groups has gotten to the point that some people believe they have to shoot members of the other side. I thank God it wasn’t a veteran who did the shooting, there would have been a massacre and it would have provided more grist for the mill of vet-bashers.

Folks, hate breeds violence, which in turn breeds more hate. When do we get off this merry-go-round of self destruction? We don’t need to hate. We want to. Is it because we have so isolated ourselves from direct contact with each other that hate is the only strong emotion we can muster? Whatever, as a society we must change the way we view each other and the way we post about each other.

If a conservative and a liberal wee to sit down together and talk about the issues they care about, they would discover a lot more they have in common than what divides them. The only real difference between Conservatives and Liberals is the means they use to accomplish those ends. Conservatives are more personally liberal, generous with their time and money to help the people in need around them. On the other side of the coin, Liberals tend to espouse massive government programs to do the same things. The other issues are merely distraction from the main one.

Since there’s so much the two sides have in common, why do they hate each other? Let’s put an end to it now. Let’s stop posting and sharing inflammatory memes and slogans. Let’s stop projecting our fears into the perceptions of our fellows for our opposite-party members. Let’s decide to be civil toward one another and heal our society before we wind up without one.

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