Thanks for articulating so well one of the problems we’re facing. Name-calling has been going on for centuries, and look at the damage it’s done. We’ve been critical of the divides in other countries: the Sunnies and Shias; the Palestinians and the Israelis, the Protestants and Catholics of Ireland, etc., but I think we’re becoming too much like them with such hatred and name-calling going on between the Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives. If someone were to look at our newspapers and read the Internet comments without knowing our society, they’d think we were in the middle of a civil war. I fear for the future of this nation if we don’t get past this mindset of hate that’s raging right now.
That old saying, “sticks and stones may break my bones, but name will never hurt me” just isn’t true. Words DO hurt. And leaders, both good and bad, are human beings with needs and feelings, strengths and weaknesses, just like the rest of us. Thanks again for the reminder about the need for civility, which is the only way we’re going to solve our nation’s problems.
