Workers at the Pennsylvania petrochemical plant where President Donald Trump spoke Tuesday were told that if they didn't attend the event, they either had to use paid time off or receive no pay for the day.
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TRUMP TRAIN USES SLAVE LABOR TO COERCE PEOPLE INTO RALLIES love it
And people wonder what the hell Trump and Kim Jong Un talked about all day.... Trump's making him proud.
I'm getting more than a little tired and bored of the, "BUT HILLARY'S EMAILS/MONICA LEWINSKY!!!" approach to defending Trump.
The implication is that anyone who hates Trump MUST love the Clintons or Democrats in general and it is patently false.
It can come off as deflection, or misdirection. And I wholly agree with you - each person should be measured on their own merits, not in comparison to others. Right is right, wrong is wrong. That others do wrong is irrelevant to this person doing wrong. But the comparison is raised because those trying to hold Trump accountable did not hold Clintons or others accountable. There is a legitimate problem being raised, but it doesn't excuse Trump from being accountable for his words and actions.
The problem IS the divide.
Disagree, at least in how I'm interpreting your statement. A divide is necessary - competition of ideas to drive creativity and a better solution is the way of evolution and survival in all senses. HOW they manage the separation, as recently evidenced by focusing on the other side's players as opposed to the ideas and how to improve society. Progress, regardless of party, requires one group to see the problems in the ideas of the other group...and to develop their own ideas that go one better. Instead, politics in the US have spent the last few decades becoming more polarized on persons than working for better ideas.
I view the left having the heart, the moral aspect of taking care of one's brother, as a core ideal and one I think is good to have. I believe their ambitions may be noble, but they lack the practicality to reach implementation. We're not seeing them learning from earlier efforts at social welfare and a productive society - it's the same old promise which cannot ever be fulfilled. Meanwhile, I look at the right as having the means and capacity for achievement, to get things done. But in what direction? Without heart it devolves into a 'fuck you, I got mine' which lets one's brother die, or at least suffer, needlessly. To me, the left has the correct intent, while the right has the practicality to achieve, and if the two could ever work together it would be ideal. Unfortunately, any idea from the other side is 'bad' and cannot be co-opted or adapted...and so we see two behemoths getting larger, and angrier, and thrashing the other....without progress for society.
But that's my take on it. We need different views, they just need to be working together rather than against one another.
