Another arrogant elected official who thinks he knows what's best for everyone. And a leftist columnist who has a better sense of truth.
This is a left winger who has some sense of what's happening and the dangers of PC run amok. This is hardly to commend him. The intolerance on the left is beyond the pale and it is why this nation is headed for huge trouble.
We're not Christians, but the hatred for that group from the left is palpable and the irony is a large portion of African-Americans are members of that faith. And unless we are mistaken, quite a few are Hispanics.Then you get this from an elected official, urging people to vote against an election he himself claims was won fairly. Just one more Harvard elitist.
We are saying this and we are not backing off. This man is a disgrace to his office, to the people of his state and to the nation. Though his state didn't vote for Trump there were decent citizens and voters there who most likely did. So Mr. Congressman, you are a disgrace and we will gladly tell you this chest-to-chest anywhere on the globe. Just pick a spot. This is not a threat, just a promise. This is precisely why the article below has some understanding what's at risk in this nation with the PC BS.
So pick up the gauntlet, sir. Let's get this party out in the open. You don't get to define unhinged for the rest of us, sir. That's one of the basic issues here. Your party lost. I don't care if you're in DC or Brussels. As long as I stay out of your state--The Constitution State, what a joke--you don't get to tell me anything, sir. We can discuss that issue chest-to-chest, too, sir.
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A Democratic lawmaker is desperately lobbying the Electoral College to shun Donald Trump, and vote for Hillary Clinton — even though he conceded Monday that the Republican won the election “fair and square.”
The plea from Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) comes a week before the Dec. 19 vote, which is expected to affirm the results of the Nov. 8 election, in which Trump beat Clinton with 306 Electoral College votes.
“We’re 5 wks from Inauguration & the President Elect is completely unhinged. The electoral college must do what it was designed for,” Himes wrote Sunday night on Twitter in response to Trump’s gripe that NBC “Nightly News” is “biased, inaccurate and bad, point after point.
In an interview Monday on CNN’s “New Day,” Himes said that Trump’s refusal to say that the Russians hacked Democrats during the election was what prompted his plea to the Electoral College.
“What finally pushed me over the edge was when the president-elect of the United States criticized the CIA and the intelligence community. Can you imagine what the leaders in Beijing and Moscow and Tehran are thinking as they watch the next president of the United States delegitimize and criticize his own intelligence community and stand up for the defense of Russia, one of our prime adversaries,” said Himes.
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After Donald Trump’s election, some universities
echoed with primal howls. Faculty members canceled classes for weeping,
terrified students who asked: How could this possibly be happening?
I
share apprehensions about President-elect Trump, but I also fear the
reaction was evidence of how insular universities have become. When
students inhabit liberal bubbles, they’re not learning much about their
own country. To be fully educated, students should encounter not only
Plato, but also Republicans.
We liberals are adept
at pointing out the hypocrisies of Trump, but we should also address
our own hypocrisy in terrain we govern, such as most universities: Too
often, we embrace diversity of all kinds except for ideological.
Repeated studies have found that about 10 percent of professors in the
social sciences or the humanities are Republicans.
We
champion tolerance, except for conservatives and evangelical
Christians. We want to be inclusive of people who don’t look like us —
so long as they think like us. I fear that liberal
outrage at Trump’s presidency will exacerbate the problem of liberal
echo chambers, by creating a more hostile environment for conservatives
and evangelicals. Already, the lack of ideological diversity on campuses
is a disservice to the students and to liberalism itself, with
liberalism collapsing on some campuses into self-parody.
At Oberlin College soon after the election, students
erupted in protests after a local bakery was accused of racial profiling
of a black student in a shoplifting case. The student senate endorsed a
boycott of the bakery, and demonstrators carried signs calling the
owner a racist.
But allegations of a pattern of
racist behavior were undermined by police records showing the
overwhelming share of people detained for shoplifting at the bakery were
white. This may actually have been a case of liberal hysteria.
Some
of you are saying that it’s O.K. to be intolerant of intolerance, to
discriminate against bigots who acquiesce in Trump’s record of racism
and misogyny. By all means, stand up to the bigots. But do we really
want to caricature half of Americans, some of whom voted for President
Obama twice, as racist bigots? Maybe if we knew more Trump voters we’d
be less inclined to stereotype them.
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