Hate in the heartland: America is stumbling towards disaster one virulent tweet at a time
Robert Bridge
RT.com
25 Jan, 2019
It’s hard to overstate the level of palpable hate that exists between various groups in America over myriad issues. This has carved the country into isolated pockets of anger where civil dialogue has disappeared.
Everywhere you look these days it seems that the American people, rallying themselves around the latest cause célèbre, are at each other’s throats. In fact, we may be the only nation in the world that is more united by what divides us as opposed to what brings us together.
Rallied to action (and distraction) by a handful of omnipotent media outlets, Americans find themselves identifying with non-stop social outbursts like the #MeToo movement, Black Lives Matter, LGBT, and of course the showdown of the century between conservatives and liberals ever since Donald Trump entered the White House.
Meanwhile, in the eternal quest to hunt down the source of our discontent, some have even started to point the finger of blame at men, specifically white men. Yes, thanks to their so-called ‘white privilege’ and ‘toxic masculinity,’ white males in America are slowly displacing even Russia as the primary source of our tears and travails. Want a second opinion? Good luck with that.
Thanks to the noxious cloud of political correctness that has descended upon the landscape like tear gas, it is becoming almost impossible to flesh out alternative thoughts and ideas. This is evidenced by the latest trend among university students, many of whom would rather wreck their manicured campuses than expose their fragile minds to debate and dialogue.
Such an oppressive, borderline-fascist climate that seeks to snuff out democratic debate sets the stage for more hate down the road. That much was evident last week when a group of students from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, which just happened to be Washington, D.C. at the height of ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ (TDS).
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