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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDan Rather writes Facebook post on "President Trump and civility"
But let's be clear about what incivility really looks like:
Incivility is lying to impugn the citizenship of the first African American president.
Incivility is threatening and mocking reporters and attacking the First Amendment protections of our free and independent press.
Incivility is destroying the environment and ignoring climate change.
Incivility is countenancing corruption and venality in the highest reaches of the White House and its cabinet.
Incivility is our government's response to Puerto Rico.
Incivility is undermining a merited investigation by respected law enforcement officials and maligning the notion of an independent judiciary.
Incivility is cozying up to dictators and attacking our allies and friends.
Incivility is ripping children - even those too young to know their parent's name - from immigrants legally claiming asylum.
Incivility is endeavoring to have millions of Americans lose their health insurance.
Incivility is creating a false equivalence between Nazis and counter protesters.
Incivility is using peaceful dissent from NFL players as a pretense for stirring the deep waters of racial injustice.
Incivility is using Twitter to lie and bully.
Incivility is just having the pathology to constantly lie in the first place.
Incivility is gas lighting your fellow citizens on issues big and small.
Incivility is trying to bar entry to the United States on account of religion.
Incivility is ignoring science and reason.
Incivility is trying to run roughshod over our constitutional protections.
These are but a few of the real incivilities that plague our moment in history. They are the actions of a man and his enablers who feel no compunction about destroying the bonds that have held this improbable nation together. We will only succeed if we have a civil society. And anything or anyone who attacks that cherished American ideal must be considered... uncivil.
https://www.facebook.com/theDanRather/posts/10160564295625716
peekaloo
(22,977 posts)REM
peekaloo
(22,977 posts)vi5
(13,305 posts)over and over and over and over again. On every show that anyone with a D after their name appears this needs to be said.
No more hiding. No more cowering and waiting for the press to play refs and call foul on the other guys.
No more playing it safe and hoping voters pick up on your civility and low key approach.
We tried that. We tried believing you all when you said "We got this." Well you didn't. And now we don't.
So grow a spine and get to work.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Show me the Dems whose first utterance in front of a camera is "How Goddamn Dare They?!?"
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)This, a thousand times over!
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)Garrett78
(10,721 posts)yonder
(9,687 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,244 posts)All of us needs to hammer each and every one of these points repeatedly against each and every single one of rump and his admin.
Each second of each minute of each hour of each day until Nov. 2018 and Nov. 2020!
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,439 posts)GOTV2018!
Cha
(298,167 posts)read this!
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)... and ditto on adding "Bragging about sexual assault" to the list of uncivil BS.
calimary
(81,612 posts)Basically behaving as though one were above the law.
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)calimary
(81,612 posts)Dan Rather is an icon, and a personal hero of mine. Glad I could clarify, though.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,956 posts)place this on Senator Schumer's desk.............
Stuart G
(38,458 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)Oneironaut
(5,551 posts)We must return to civility and wait until next election to make a difference. Shut up, sit down, and say nothing. You are absolutely not allowed to protest Trump, lest you become part of the problem.
Dont make any waves. The comfort of Republicans should be your biggest concern.
The Republicans and the American people will respect us for it, unlike Trump who gets no airtime on the news...
OldManTarHeel
(435 posts)Many thanks to the OP.
calimary
(81,612 posts)Dan Rather is a national treasure. He has plenty of GOP knife wounds in his back. He's earned our respect the hard way. And here again, he happens to be right.
karin_sj
(821 posts)He really summed it up, didn't he? And I'm sure that the additional numerous other incivilities he could have added would probably fill a book. How dare they complain about a lack of civility. Stupid, heartless, lying, thin-skinned monsters.
calimary
(81,612 posts)From his closing paragraph -
"These are but a few of the real incivilities that plague our moment in history." A FEW!?!
That's one humdinger of an understatement!
ailsagirl
(22,913 posts)spanone
(135,960 posts)Incivility is Don Trump.
zentrum
(9,866 posts)
the birther thing. What an outrage.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Demovictory9
(32,509 posts)pansypoo53219
(21,018 posts)not coddled.
Tucker08087
(621 posts)He writes beautifully, cuts to the chase, and does so with honesty, passion, and (dare I say it) civility. A true class act.