This will be my last post about politics! I promise! Really! A Pinkie promise!!
But out of curiosity, I was just wondering if others out there have experienced the following phenomenon this week that goes like this: How many friends have you met up with in the past few days who actually regretted the fact that Trump's survived his assassination attempt?
It's a given that news organisations have wholeheartely disavowed this violent act as not being an option for America. But just how many people (journalists included) really feel this deeply in their hearts when it comes to Trump?
What does that say about us? In America, and many around the globe, believe that Trump is as bad as Hitler, and killing him is entirely justified. And I know a few bright people who have said that to me. But equally, though not as many, think he's a saviour.
But many say this is an extreme situation, one that calls for extreme action (so they repeat) but I find it difficult as it raises a host of morally uncomfortable questions for me, and maybe you too?
None of my friends voiced any concern for this scoundrel's life. They wished he had been killed so we wouldn't have to deal with him anymore. I confess that I shared this feeling in my passive way. Thus, the moral question is also raised for me personally.
I don't have a concrete response to these nuanced feelings about this event except that I've come to see to see that political violence is a destructive path for America. I have had to re-examine my first gut reaction to this assassination attempt.
I see it now as a practical solution despite my hesitant mindset and moral weakness. It's about making a wise choice for myself, rather like sticking to a diet by not consuming foods that I know I really want to eat, but at the same time, knowing they're not good for me. More precisely, they're not helpful to my decision to respect the diet I've chosen to follow in the very first place.
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