Do you ever read a story or comments from someone who overall seems to be a nice person from what you can tell, but what they say is not based on our current reality and you want to shoot a T.V. like Elvis Presley did back in the day?
Me neither. However, I did have a dream about that once but that story is for another time.
As I was perusing the fine articles here at RedState today from my colleagues I came across an article about an interview the former Defense Secretary under President Bush and President Obama gave Sunday. I read in amazement Robert Gates’ thoughts on the current political climate in my colleague Bob Hoge’s piece earlier today and linked right here. From that article…
Robert Gates, who served as Secretary of Defense under Presidents Bush and Obama from 2006-2011, appeared on “Face the Nation” Sunday and told moderator Margaret Brennan that he thinks the biggest threat to the nation isn’t white supremacy, it’s not China or Russia or climate change—it’s the political polarization of our country. It’s not the first time we’ve been so divided, he says, but there’s something new about our latest rifts:
MARGARET BRENNAN: What do you think the biggest threat to United States is right now?
FORMER SEC. GATES: I think it is the polarization in the country. And, you know, we’ve always had polarization in America.
The, if you go back to the Jefferson, Adams presidential race in 1800, the things that were said in that election would fit right into a current political environment. But what’s been different, more recently, is not just a measure of paralysis, as indicated by the debt ceiling, but a level of meanness and a lack of civility among our politicians, or the sense that somebody who disagrees with you is not just somebody you disagree with, but is an enemy, is a bad person.