Can reasonable people disagree about whether Trump is fit for office?
I don't think so. A reasonable person would look at trump's words and behaviors and see someone who brings nothing positive to the office.Here is a partial list of things that should have disqualified him:Pervasive dishonesty - when there is an industry built on tracking his lies, you know he should not be president. When someone says, “You have to look at what he means, not what he says,” we have a problem.Disinterest in working hard at the job. A president who cannot be bothered to get a daily security briefing should not have the office. A president spends as much time on the golf course as he should not have the office. A president who cannot and will not learn about his responsibilities should be ejectedA president who attacks the free press as an institution and suggests that the laws should change is leading us to fascism.A president who mocks, belittles, and personally attacks those who disagree with him diminishes the office. A president who wants to jail his opponents is no better than a tin pot dictator.A president who suggests that some nazis and racists are ‘fine people' is just plain evil.A president who uses law enforcement to separate families who are seeking asylum is behaving like the Gestapo.A president who tries to take away the health care of 20 million residents is a danger to the nationA president who mocks a person's disability, and who brags about grabbing women by the pussy is a pig and should not be in office.A president who is so stupidly vain that he does not think he can learn anything from experts is a danger to the nation.So, reasonable people would not consider trump to be fit for office. So we now know that about 46% of Americans are not reasonable people.
Politically speaking, do people ever feel that their side or party has gone too far on an issue, i.e. the burqa? Even Iran has called them "backward", then I hear liberals arguing that burqas should not be banned by civilized societies.
First let me address the Burqa. I don't allow anyone wearing one to enter my business for the same reason I don't allow trick or treaters to come into my business with their mask on.,,SECURITY. But as dehumanizing as they appear to be, this is still the United States of America, not Turkey, Tunisia, Syria, Egypt or Iran, and if women want to wear those hideous things it's none of the government's business like in those other countries where everything is the government's business.Although I don't have a Party, I am a Conservative, and I do at times think my compadres have gone too far. Here are a couple instances:One time is when Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) put forth his budget with no funding included for the new Obamacare, he didn't put back into the Medicare fund the $500,000,000,000 the President grabbed from it to balance the (at the time) proposed Healthcare Bill. As far as I'm concerned that made him, and the Republicans/Conservatives who voted for that budget, as bad as the President.Another is when the Republicans/Conservatives recently caved in and approved extending the payroll tax cut. That tax cut is pillaging Social Security when everybody knows the program is going, or has already gone, into the red. How could they approve taking out less from our payroll checks for Social Security at a time when there must be changes made to the program in order to make it solvent.
Which *resources* can most reasonable people, liberal and conservative, agree on to check or obtain the facts?
In war truth is the first casualty.For the first time since WWll the information sources in the US are united in open warfare, this time against their own elected government.During warfare facts are ammunition and most people align according to their estimate of the winning side.People interpret facts in the context of their ideology and interests.For years before this war broke out I argued that CNN and FOX are unreliable. The difference is that FOX is split on the Trump agenda and CNN is not. There is currently the absurd situation that if you wanted to see people from both sides, you are more likely to find them on BBC or FOX than CNN.In both France and the US the old divisions of left and right are no longer relevant. For example, Paul Ryan wants to eliminate Social Security, Medicare and Obamacare with no real alternative. Trump wants to keep Social Security, Medicare and the best aspects of Obamacare. Before and after the election, the so-called US liberal media supported Ryan more than Trump.Civil war and terrorism is something that should be kept out of the US and I do not see why any honest news source would encourage either under any pretext.
Agree or disagree: Poor people in America should just shut up and be happy?
If I were a conservative I would have to agree. Or say I disagree and tell them they have to not put their hands out looking for help, which is clearly a contradictory respnse to the question..
What is your opinion on politics breaking up friendships? Do you think its reasonable for people to stop being friends due to opposing politics?
It’s somewhat understandable depending on the circumstances. To me, it ultimately depends on the person in question, what they stand for, why they stand for it, and how many redeeming qualities they have. I understand that not everyone who supports Donald Trump or is against certain progressive policies, is necessarily some unapologetic scuzball.I’m on good terms with a former co-worker who supports Donald Trump and eschews liberalism and Democrats to some extent. But he’s not from a basket of deplorables. He is genuinely skeptical about liberal ideology and sees Trump as a lesser evil to some extent. He’s against LGBT rights for various reasons (partially misguided and partially due to cultural pressure). He can be biased against certain groups of people and also support certain right-wing economic ideologies (in the mistaken beliefs that they’re best). But he’s a nice, kind, decent person nonetheless. I can respectfully disagree with this guy’s present worldview. I’d be stupid to stop talking to him because of a disagreement over politics. Nobody is born knowing everything. We’re all just figuring out life as we go through it and I understand that sometimes, we’ll adopt some less-than-commendable beliefs along the way. As long as someone keeps an open mind and has genuinely nice intentions, I can be friends with them.Now I’ll mention another co-worker of mine. I am not friends with that guy. He’s a racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and extremely selfish and hypocritical Trump supporter. He might appear nice in his everyday interactions with the public, but behind closed doors (and sometimes, even openly), he displays these deplorable personality traits. He has even gone so far to explicitly admit that he applies different moral standards to different races of people and also admit that he that be has no qualms about being a jerk to anyone he can get away with being a jerk to. It’s no doubt that the vast majority of this guy’s support for Trump comes from a place of selfish arrogance, elitism, misogyny and racism. He admittedly knows that he’s a selfish hypocrite and just doesn’t care. This is the type of person who I can’t respect for their politics.
What does the phrase "relatively speaking" mean?
It means "true in situations similar to the one at hand." Say you're talking about the general behavior of kindergarten boys. On average they are boisterous, so if Ken is quiet, RELATIVELY SPEAKING [compared to other boys in kindergarten], Ken is not a boisterous boy. You compare A to its group, and relative to the group, A is or is not like the group. I hope those examples are clear enough.
"Anger is a gift" Malcolm X, agree or disagree?
It depends how and when you use anger. Too much anger and you will defeat your self, too little and no one notices. You have to balance anger as with any emotion, let it control your every waking moment and it will eat you alive, pretend you have never experienced anger and you will be a fool. It is similiar to a viper, it will go on with out hurting any thing until it is angered and it will strike with out mercy or consequence. In a way humans need anger as we also need love, just do not confuse them with each other as the line between them can be very thin.