It’s one thing to point to a hazard, it’s contributory to whatever calamity is the end-result to do nothing about the hazard. So, what can we, as anxious observers, do?
It’s obvious that neither McCain nor Palin nor the mainstream media have the least desire to calm the set-free rage. Indeed, feeding it serves their political and financial purposes, much as was newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst’s directive to photographer Frederic Remington in Havana in 1898, “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.”
If any one of us knows someone who supports McCain and Palin, we have a very moral and exquisitely patriotic obligation to explain to that person, or persons, that whatever their relationship to us might be, it is not superior to our dedication to the American principle of civility and the rule of law. We must confront that person, or persons, and make it clear that so long as they hold their supportive opinions of candidates whose execrable conduct cannot be at all supported, they are not, and will never again be, welcome in our presence.
If you wouldn’t consider associating with someone who would vote for, say, a child molester, how is it more acceptable to associate with someone who would vote for candidates who care not what civil havoc they foment, while in pursuit of political power?
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