Time to stop adding fuel to toxic rhetoric
BRANSON MO NEWS: Rhetoric has become toxic among fringe groups that are speaking out against Donald J. Trump since he was elected president last November.
Many cities, universities and town hall meetings have erupted into riots. When the young woman was run down in Virginia, it spawned a lot of hate.
That’s when the hatred spread burst over the top.
Missouri state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, a Democrat from University City, posted on Facebook she hoped President Donald Trump would be assassinated. Her comments were confirmed in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch story.
“‘I didn’t mean what I put up (on Facebook),’” she told the Post-Dispatch. “‘Absolutely not. I was very frustrated,’” Chappelle-Nadal told the newspaper.
While she may have been frustrated, others, perhaps encouraged by her post, could take her comments as a call to kill the president. That would put this nation into civil strife like we have not experienced since the 19th century.
Missourians who might agree with the comments, and the good senator, need to take it down a notch. And, those who think the senator was a radical trying to incite the murder of this nation’s president, must not retaliate against her or others voicing similar messages.
Rather than adding fuel to the fire, one might consider a recent statement made by Dr. Ben Carson, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: “While much of America seems to be getting more and more divisive, I’m going to be holding doors for strangers, letting people cut in front of me in traffic, greeting all I meet, exercising patience with others, and smiling at strangers. I’ll do this as often as I have the opportunity. I will not stand idly by and let children live in a world where unconditional love is invisible and being rude …
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