Will We Spend on Hate?

The newly elected Chairman of the Democratic National Committee made headlines Sunday by saying to a gathering in New Jersey that Republicans “don’t give a s**t about people.”

Political discorse in American is not designed to convince people to buy your plan.  It’s designed to make you hate the people who haven’t bought it.  And it works.  People are not so motivated to go to the polls for an ideal that they think should be happening anyway.  They will, however, proudly march there in self-defense.  Perhaps we can’t do any better.

But what lights the gasoline is when we start diverting money for the sake of hate mongering.  Also in the news on Sunday was reporting on Trumps submission to negotiations over efforts to avert a partial government shutdown at the end of next month.  He proposes cutting $1.2 billion from the National Institutes of Health research grants, $1.5 billion from community development block grants and $500 million from transportation project grants.  He’s leaving, however, the $3 billion he asked for previously to start his wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

Considering our everyday lives, divorced from the manipulative rhetoric we watch on TV, what should we care about more, cancer research and safe bridges, or immigrants and refugees, looking for a better life – and who are statistically less of a threat to us than people born here.

Sources: http://thehill.com/node/326876, https://goo.gl/CvlMGi, https://goo.gl/G5JpIz

One thought on “Will We Spend on Hate?”

  1. I believe that the message he was intending to deliver cam across the wrong way. You can never be blunt like that and be a good leader by saying to not give a sh** about people. Caring is what makes someone a strong leader because they are keeping the opinions of people in mind when making important decisions.

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