This quote, in reference to the hammer beating of the husband of Nancy Pelosi may provoke a "pause" to reflect, consider and then change something about a system so flawed as ours:
"There’s no room for violence anywhere, but we’re going to send her back to be with him in California.”
Those words are spoken on a campaign trail speech to voters by a person seeking a top re-election office.
I recall living in DC passing the National Cathedral where John McCain was lying in state and protesting signs were being held up as the motorcade drove by ... this where a spouse and child of their loved one would have to read or be exposed to damning words of their family member.
Police are killing citizens and citizens are killing police.
Lawyers are bringing down lawyers and dirty laundry is flying about everywhere.
Our country is so divided that even the lives of humans are sacrificial to supposed winning and losing causes.
When will the sides stop and the people become a we?
Have "we" ever really become a "we" in the US?
How is it that winning is the goal - almost only?
How is it that hating is justified - to counter hating?
Real people - hurting real people is hurting people.
These words, regardless of what side you're on or what race you're in or what top office you hold are not >the< problem - to be clear. They are definitely wrong.
A moral judgment here? Yes. Wrong, as I am calling it, is the right word, when the spouse of an attacked 82 year old spouse is flying home to a brain operated attack victim - and a governor wanna be simultaneously speaks about "...sending her home to be with him in California" in election jargon which was not endearing at all.
Read the Yahoo story and look at the context with which these words were spewed ... during a life and death kind of day for a married couple in the US.
"There’s no room for violence anywhere, but we’re going to send her back to be with him in California.”
Those words are spoken on a campaign trail speech to voters by a person seeking a top re-election office.
I recall living in DC passing the National Cathedral where John McCain was lying in state and protesting signs were being held up as the motorcade drove by ... this where a spouse and child of their loved one would have to read or be exposed to damning words of their family member.
Police are killing citizens and citizens are killing police.
Lawyers are bringing down lawyers and dirty laundry is flying about everywhere.
Our country is so divided that even the lives of humans are sacrificial to supposed winning and losing causes.
When will the sides stop and the people become a we?
Have "we" ever really become a "we" in the US?
How is it that winning is the goal - almost only?
How is it that hating is justified - to counter hating?
Real people - hurting real people is hurting people.
These words, regardless of what side you're on or what race you're in or what top office you hold are not >the< problem - to be clear. They are definitely wrong.
A moral judgment here? Yes. Wrong, as I am calling it, is the right word, when the spouse of an attacked 82 year old spouse is flying home to a brain operated attack victim - and a governor wanna be simultaneously speaks about "...sending her home to be with him in California" in election jargon which was not endearing at all.
Not sure you agree?
Read the Yahoo story and look at the context with which these words were spewed ... during a life and death kind of day for a married couple in the US.
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