CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JULY 12, 2023
HAVE YOU NOTICED – AND HOW COULD YOU NOT HAVE NOTICED – THAT THE POLITICAL RHETORIC IS GETTING WORSE. RECENTLY, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID THIS: JOE BIDEN “TOGETHER WITH A BAND OF HIS CLOSEST THUGS, MISFITS AND MARXISTS, TRIED TO DESTROY AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.”
A FEW OTHER REPUBLICANS ARE USING SIMILAR TOXIC LANGUAGE. BUT THEN SO ARE DEMOCRATS. SENATOR COREY BOOKER APPEARED ON A TALK SHOW AND AFTER DENOUNCING TRUMP’S LANGUAGE, INDULGED IN SIMILAR SPEECH. BOOKER SAID TRUMP IS “A PHYSICALLY WEAK SPECIMEN” AND THAT HIS OWN TESTOSTERONE “MAKES ME WANT TO” PUNCH TRUMP.
HOW DOES ANY OF THIS SOLVE PROBLEMS AND SERVE THE INTERESTS OF THE COUNTRY? WHY WON’T POLITICIANS DIRECT THEIR ENERGIES TOWARD THINGS THE PUBLIC CARES ABOUT – LIKE INFLATION, THE DEBT, THE BORDER AND THE DECLINE IN MORAL VALUES?
NAME-CALLING SOLVES NOTHING. AS SCRIPTURE SAYS, “A SOFT ANSWER TURNS AWAY WRATH.” IT ALSO GETS ONE A HEARING. SHOUTING AT ANOTHER PERSON AND CALLING THEM NAMES ONLY DIVIDES US EVEN MORE. IT DOESN’T CONVINCE ANYONE THAT ONE’S IDEAS ARE CORRECT. AS AN OLD GLEN CAMPBELL SONG SAYS, WHY DON’T THEY “TRY A LITTLE KINDNESS”? I’M CAL THOMAS.
