"HankKwah9 hours agoin reply to csanchez1
More lies. I think we need to start flagging sanchez aka missey anne's comments and maybe she'll go away. She's a waste of space here and in life."
This is a recent posting in the comments section of my local newspaper's editorial on-line page. It is a response to a liberal who steadily tries to present an opposing view to the stream of "conservative" rhetoric that has recently bombarded my city, mostly from out-of-towners who insist that they know what is best for those of us who choose to vote Democratic. Many, like myself, never respond or comment about the insults and barbs aimed at us, but, instead, mostly laugh at the ridiculous attempts to change our minds and vote ourselves into a "better world." A better world, that, apparently, only includes like-minded conservatives who think the rest of us, like csanchez, are a "waste of life."
Let me repeat: "a waste of life." One that will possibly just go away with a delete button. And there's the rub. Just how will we go away if these folks manage to capture our government? We, who are clearly wasting their space and are not worthy of living among them, are to be disposed of in some sort of nefarious way? Or is that pronouncement just some thoughtless figure of speech? Just what do they have in mind for us? Clearly, we see some sort of writing on the wall concerning the poor, elderly, misfits of society, women, ethnic groups, and, in short, anyone not conforming to their ideas of worth. We've seen the unemployed become despised pariahs of society blamed for their own situation with such self-righteous abandon rarely seen in this nation of so-called freedom-loving, Christian-espousing defenders of the Constitution. We've seen Girl Sccouts, teachers, firefighters, policemen, nurses, even Dr. Seuss, for God's sake, become somehow "less than" in this conservative world of justification for life-lowering in all of its forms with the single exception of the human zygote.
Just what will they do with us if it truly does become "up to them?" It's not as though humanity has not seen intolerance carried to the ultimate degree before. We still see it throughout the world. There are things I've seen in my lifetime that I never thought inhumanly possible. I believe in the concept of history repeating itself, and that, above all else, is this leftist's distrust of the right. I distrust the right's ability to insist on repeating history that has left people leaving countries with possessions carried in sacks upon their backs lucky to have escaped the plight of their neighbors who didn't believe the world could be so cruel.
I desperately want to believe that I am wrong. I want to believe that the remarks were made without any real basis or threat of silencing permanently others' opinions. Unfortunately, remarks like these are far too common and put us in the dangerous zone of becoming inured to them to the point that upping the ante is the only answer. The world I want to return to is the one in which showing respect for another's opinion reflected more upon the person showing it than the person who received it. To toss around careless words orally in the heat of an argument is one thing; to fling it to the internet for all to see forever, is quite another. Perhaps, Mr. Hankwah9 has no idea the impact his statement of worthlessness has on the future. In a fantasy world, someone could point that out to him without being called names.