I'm all for rationality and remaining critical when consuming information, including your op. Your first question had nothing to do with my post.
As for the deep divisions, you've got a large chunk of the population openly supporting socialism. An overlapping segment with disproportionate media voice is hostile to Christianity and religion in general, the basis for our natural rights and the most important thing in existence. There are significant movements launched from the corrupt modern education system and spreading throughout the media/entertainment industry, to both restrict free speech and institutionalize judging people by their skin color (or other broad demographic traits) rather than the content of their character (e.g. intersectionality). Several Democratic presidential candidates openly support racial "reparations" (skin color tax) and/or abolishing all Americans' private health insurance. The war on the Second Amendment is well documented. Most of the media and the NFL itself supported the infamous anti-American anthem protests.
All this is antithetical to core American principles of individual liberty, constitutionalism, free market economics, limited government, and Judeo-Christian values. It's not just about policy but fundamental mind set. Then there's abortion, the most important moral issue of our time. You list 3 fairly obscure pundits you dislike (2 conservative, 1 token liberal) as if they're somehow responsible for this division. No serious analysis can ignore the left's domination of media, social media companies, and Hollywood, the attempt to silence ("deplatform") the conservative half of the country, or the efforts to harass, intimidate, or get conservatives fired, which isn't tenable long term without national dissolution and/or civil war.
Americans are more divided now than the colonists and British were in the 1770s. A better question is what unites Americans if not freedom, role of government, patriotism, or even belief in God?
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Keelai (31877)
5 years ago
You don't see our own hypocrisy.
You're for free speech but against it when the NFL uses it.
You're for Christianity but support the Second Amendment. It sounds like you're not familiar with the Sixth Commandment.
You conveniently forget that slavery in the U.S. was based on skin color and its legacy continues with Jim Crow laws, white supremacy and institutional racism and discrimination. Meanwhile, when NFL players protest about racism certain persons call them anti-American.
Those talk show hosts feed on anger, hate and fear. Those emotions are very anti-Christian.
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krl97a (5619)
5 years ago
My post outlining divisions didn't mention my stance on free speech or other issues, but your post suggests English may not be your first language.
That said, there's nothing hypocritical about those who support free speech using it to criticize what other people say or do, including the NFL's hypocrisy in allowing anti-American displays by players in uniform at work in public entertainment venues* while cracking down hard on players for saying the slightest politically incorrect things that offend radical leftist sensibilities, including on their own social media pages in the off season. The NFL is not pro "free speech". Meanwhile patriotic critics of the NFL are not calling for players to be deplatformed or prevented from talking to the media, the way the left has been trying to silence conservatives.
The rest of the hilarious garbage you posted just underscores that you know nothing about the Bible, history, current events (you literally used "Jim Crow laws" in present tense, LOL) or logic.
*Disrespecting the flag and anthem is overtly anti-American by definition, and the idiot who started the fad, Colin Keapernick, openly admitted he didn't want to "honor" the "country", along with praising communist dictators, glorifying Black Panthers who were convicted cop killers, and wearing socks mocking police as pigs. Even Iranians and North Koreans stand respectfully for the US anthem during international competitions. It's basic decorum. If North Koreans can do it then surely spoiled, pampered, very rich NFL employees who have benefited from the country more than almost anyone else can do it.
That many players were so ignorant they admitted being "surprised" by the backlash from most fans shows the education system and their parents failed to teach them basic civics. They don't understand the USA's fundamentals, further illustrating how deep the divide is. That's aside from the underlying BLM cause being inherently bigoted and based on lies.
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Keelai (31877)
5 years ago
Your rant mentioned plenty of your biases.
Freedom of speech isn't limited to what you support. The NFL players have a right to freedom of speech and expression. The NFL is doing fine financially. Their players are making more money than you'll ever see.
Making people follow a specific religion or pledge something they don't believe isn't freedom. Everyone has a right to protest. It's not your place to judge who is or isn't patriotic.
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krl97a (5619)
5 years ago
What inane claptrap. Every sentence you typed is a straw man argument and/or wrong. Neither the NFL players nor any private company's employees have a right to say whatever they want while on the clock at work and keep their job. Companies have the right to impose rules as a condition of employment. Ask former Dolphins safety Don Jones. On his own twitter page in the off season he wrote "horrible" in response to the gay Michael Sam's affectionate display with his boyfriend on national tv. For that Jones was fined, suspended, and forced to take Orwellian reeducation "training" and apologize before being reinstated. The NFL has mountains of regulations controlling what players say on and off the field. The NFL lost more than 20% of its audience during the anthem controversy. Then it announced it was finally prohibiting the anti-American protests as most other leagues and agencies wisely had at the beginning of this nonsense. Although they later quietly backpedaled due to union pressure, both the media and most of the players who were protesting (which was always a minority) learned their lesson and stopped doing it, the few exceptions not being mentioned on tv. Since then ratings have gone back up. And the ungrateful, ignorant players being absurdly rich for playing a kid's game was explicitly part of my point, genius.
Again, no one was pushing to deny the players their right to "protest" (on their own time), post whatever they want on social media, or talk to reporters.
It's not your place to judge who is or isn't patriotic.
Sure it is. It's not your place to restrict what I'm allowed to say.
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Keelai (31877)
5 years ago
You're supporting homophobia, I see.
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krl97a (5619)
5 years ago
No I criticized hypocrisy while disproving your claim about the NFL giving players "free speech". But the larger point is just that there are deep divisions in the country, which you help prove with every reply.
And no, for the record I oppose "homophobia". It's a dumb, made up word.
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