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I’m beginning to repeat myself and for that I apologize.<\/p>\n

I don’t intend to apologize for the repetitive topic<\/em>. It involves this notion that the current state of political debate necessarily must devolve into a rhetorical flame-throwing contest.<\/p>\n

Such fiery rhetoric comes from many of my progressive\/liberal social media friends and acquaintances. Some of them have scolded me for seeking to reduce the temperature.<\/p>\n

“This is war<\/em>,” a few of them have told me. No. It is not.<\/p>\n

I’ve had a brief bit of exposure to war. Believe me when I say this: This is nothing close<\/em> to the real thing.<\/p>\n

Yes, it is a form of combat. Democrats are angry with Republicans for fomenting anger. They suggest that anger can — and does — manifest itself in acts such as what we witnessed the past few days: the mailing of pipe bombs to officials who disagree with Donald Trump, the nation’s 45th president.<\/p>\n

So, to counter that anger, they propose to ratchet it up. Among the top proponents of the in-your-face policy of political debate is Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who has made a name for himself representing Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress who alleges taking a one-time tumble with the future 45th president.<\/p>\n

Avenatti is considering whether to run for president in 2020. Imagine my surprise. He says Democrats need a gut fighter to take the battle straight to the president and his fellow Republicans.<\/p>\n

Where does it go from there? Only heaven knows.<\/p>\n

I am sick of hearing the “war” references to this political debate. Too many politicians I respect — the late Sen. John McCain, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, former Vice President Joe Biden, for example — have demonstrated how elected officials can argue and bicker over public policy without demonizing those on the other side.<\/p>\n

Thus, I cannot accept the “this is war” mantra we hear from today’s active participants.<\/p>\n\n

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I’m beginning to repeat myself and for that I apologize. I don’t intend to apologize for the repetitive topic. It involves this notion that the current state of political debate necessarily must devolve into a rhetorical flame-throwing contest. Such fiery rhetoric comes from many of my progressive\/liberal social media friends and acquaintances. Some of them … Continue reading ‘This is war’? Um, no … it isn’t<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1343,1424,1941,7555],"class_list":["post-33113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-stormy-daniels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33114,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33113\/revisions\/33114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}