I'm sure you read where that came from. A not so insignificant number of posters are treating Republicans as such.
One or two people even spoke to me of wanting a French Revolution to purge us of Republican "filth". So when treason is mentioned here, did you dispute it? No, that didn't cross your mind did it. Instead you reiterated how the situation is their fault. Which is another common theme around here. "Wilful ignorance" I hear it described as. People are accused of that all the time. As if ignorance itself is not a condition of not knowing better.
Either way, there is a profound hostility towards the "other" in this country. For Republican and Democrat alike. Across the nation, far too many people make it sound like they want our divisions to come to a head.
Obama's father was not from this country. Having a foreign background made President Obama distinguished in a way that could be uniquely exploited for a partisan attack on his background / character. In the 2000 election Bush's wife also faced an attack regarding
a fatal car crash when she was 17. Her background / character was exploited. And in later years Democrats
still hounded her.
Do you think Republicans alone are spiteful, or that hating people in politics started with Obama? If so, I believe we covered wilful ignorance. Although maybe you do realize just how utterly common such a thing is. And it has more to do with tribal politics "us vs them" than for whatever subject is raised on a given day. Furthermore, speaking of our decorum during the Obama Presidency, something very unique was started during those eight years. The hyper partisan poison called social media.
This is what politics looks like now when people are connected ever so neatly, able to line up among more solid divisions and provide talking points, narratives, and "facts" to one another. Group-think has gone global. Whether the messages are true or not, they share a common identity and they'll zealously defend it against "the other". Things were bitter against Bush from the beginning. I don't think Clinton enjoyed his time in the spotlight either. But nothing could have prepared us for what would happen to public discourse during Obama's presidency.
What I am saying is, it wasn't due to the color of his skin. Yes that was exploited, and yes there are some racists who cared about it, but mostly it comes down to our filthy political rancor where differences and backgrounds are exploited for political gain. And thanks to advances in technology, we've now dialed that up to 11 in ways humanity has never seen before.
I notice you've left something out on this subject. The 2016 campaign was not run against Blacks or Mexicans. The opponent was Hillary Clinton. Exquisite proof that the particulars of a subject are irrelevant to partisanship you claim is exclusively or primarily racist. Instead you were correct in your first line. It is "political bigotry". That was the onus of the opposition to President Obama and Secretary Clinton. Anyone in politics is going to face a hate machine from the other side. And social media lets that hate ferment in ways that are sickening to the American soul.
You've doubled down on painting the masses with such a broad brush. To generalize and stereotype the worst things to the greatest number of people. All because they've been swept up in the identity of their associated group. But I say again, each individual's journey is different. That the detachment from reality is a frighteningly normal condition for the human mind. Magical sky beings are simply what humans do.
Because it was morally wrong for us to call all Muslims Terrorists. I feel you need to own up to your parallel message here. Don't fall into the trap of righteous indignation. This isn't a story of good vs evil. There is no group racism in simply being Republican or supporting Trump. Our capacity for ignorance is more profound than that.
Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.