{"id":2367861,"date":"2024-11-12T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/op-ed-only-one-thing-can-cool-the-nations-political-rhetoric\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T20:18:00","slug":"op-ed-only-one-thing-can-cool-the-nations-political-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/op-ed-only-one-thing-can-cool-the-nations-political-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: Only One Thing Can Cool the Nation\u2019s Political Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fop-ed-only-one-thing-can-cool-the-nations-political-rhetoric%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2367861&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The excerpt discusses the significance of the 2024 election, portraying it\u200c as a potentially transformative event in U.S. \u200bhistory. It highlights a stark contrast between \u200bthe two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadian-parliament-votes-unanimously-to-recognize-chinas-genocide\/\" title=\"Canadian Parliament Votes Unanimously To Recognize China\u2019s Genocide\">major political parties<\/a>, framing their conflict not merely as a policy dispute but as a deeper ideological clash. \u2064The left is\u2063 characterized as seeking dominance over national institutions, while the right advocates\u2064 for \u200da reduction of\u2062 government power, fearing that excessive control\u2062 could \u200blead to dysfunction and tyranny.<\/p>\n<p>The article notes that \u200dboth parties have employed harsh rhetoric against each other, \u2064with Democrats labeling Republican \u2063supporters in derogatory terms, while Trump has returned fire by attacking Democrats and their policies as Marxist and detrimental. It suggests that public distrust is mounting, with social media and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">political power struggles\u200b exacerbating tensions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The author argues that the intense contest over the \u2063future of a large, intrusive government underscores\u200c the stakes of the election\u2063 and contends that reducing government power may \u2062help alleviate\u2064 political \u200chostility. Ultimately,\u200d it frames Trump&#8217;s campaign as central to this struggle, positing\u2064 that his \u200bsuccess\u200b could not only shift the political\u200d landscape but also restore a sense of order to the\u2062 nation\u2019s political discourse\u2063 and efficiency in governance.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Candidates and pundits were not overstating things when they characterized the 2024 election as the most important in decades or perhaps even in the nation&rsquo;s entire history. Every election is consequential, yet this one does seem to have been more potentially transformational than most. The contrast between the nation&rsquo;s two political parties looks much more like a clash of civilizations than a battle over public-policy issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/historic-cnns-election-numbers-show-dominant-trumps-win-really\/\">The election<\/a> campaign showed that two very different kinds of people are living in this country and have completely opposing designs for the central government. The left indicates that nothing less than their full dominance of all the nation&rsquo;s institutions of power is acceptable. The right argues that the central government has taken up too much power and that we must reduce its load before it malfunctions and self-destructs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-harris-campaign-points-blame-biden-democratic-party-slips-disarray\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harris-Walz campaign<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/leftist-media-personalities-panic-subscribers-flee-droves-following-election-terrifies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mainstream media<\/a> spared nothing in their attacks on Trump and Vance, in particular tarring Trump as a would-be dictator and claiming the &ldquo;Make America Great Again&rdquo; agenda is a cover for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kamala-just-de-facto-admitted-trump-nazi-fascist-rhetoric-lie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nazism<\/a>. President Joe Biden referred to Trump supporters as &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-trolls-biden-campaigns-garbage-truck-amid-garbage-controversy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">garbage<\/a>,&rdquo; a term of derision perfectly in alignment with his party&rsquo;s rhetoric of the past dozen years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Democrats have continuously characterized Republican voters as bitter clingers and racists who are deplorable, irredeemable, weird, and dangerous semi-fascists, extremists, insurrectionists, domestic terrorists, fascists, Nazis, and followers of a petty tyrant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Donald Trump deployed harsh language, as well, calling Harris, Biden, and their advisors and political appointees Marxists, communists, fascists, very dangerous people, an enemy from within, &ldquo;the ones who are destroying the country,&rdquo; and other such terms. It is worth noting, however, that Trump is bipartisan in his attacks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/01\/19\/upshot\/trump-complete-insult-list.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/01\/19\/upshot\/trump-complete-insult-list.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1731512653908000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3iEJC7WlNXNMNP1eSPCHlT\">regularly criticizing Republicans<\/a>&nbsp;who cross him, and that Trump generally aims his barbs at criminals and people in power: those in government, the media, private nonprofit organizations, and big businesses allied with Democrats.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rhetoric in the presidential campaign thus indicated that Trump strongly disapproves of the people currently in power in the United States, while Democratic politicians have intense feelings of distrust and disdain toward a large percentage of the American people and, in fact, a majority of those who voted in this year&rsquo;s elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those are diametrically opposed targets of criticism, and they reflect the two parties&rsquo; increasingly diverging points of view: populism for Republicans, and elitism for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many people blame social media for the corruption of political language, and, of course, Democrats and the national press (the latter being a subset of the former) claim that Trump is the one who started the rhetorical decline. That is not true. President Obama preceded Trump in this behavior, and Hillary Clinton was casting aspersions against her political opponent at least as profligately as Trump throughout the 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Technology and changing mores in American society have certainly contributed to the corruption of campaign rhetoric, but the real cause of the hostility in the nation&rsquo;s political culture and the heightened accusations of malice is the excessive concentration of power in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If this was the most important election in the nation&rsquo;s history, it is because we were voting on who will control the biggest, most powerful, most expensive, most politicized, most weaponized, most intrusive, most partisan, most profligate, most reckless, and least accountable federal government ever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a quick indicator of the size and irresponsibility of the U.S. government, note that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usdebtclock.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.usdebtclock.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1731512653908000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1HUuK6zcdL7h2FA4s0t_MU\">the national debt has risen<\/a>&nbsp;by 38 percent since 2019 and is now at 122 percent of GDP. Federal government liabilities (funded plus unfunded) per citizen are now $651,951, while total household and business assets are just $642,061 per citizen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These claims on the fruits of the American people&rsquo;s hard work, savings, and investments are irresponsible and unconscionable. It is understandable that those being subjected to this confiscation are appalled and that those who receive benefits from that system are fiercely protective of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is too much at stake in our elections. Congress and the White House have allocated more than our entire current store of private assets toward future spending.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is no mystery why those who aspire to spend all that money and thereby enjoy the power of the world&rsquo;s biggest purse would come to resent and even despise anyone who might frustrate that desire, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-s-10-step-plan-shatter-deep-state-will-give-chills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a>. These enlightened individuals are certain that they are less selfish about the spending of all this wealth than the unexceptional drones who worked to create it and the greedy capitalists who invested their personal assets in building it all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Government experts know far better how to &ldquo;invest&rdquo; the people&rsquo;s wealth, and they always do so far more impersonally and without favoritism, or so leftists claim.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2024 vote may indeed have been the most consequential ever. What was on the line was whether that enormous, invasive, and disastrously inefficient government would be expanded further, or some efforts would be made to pare it back and reduce its use of businesses and nonprofits to do its bidding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Democrats openly advocated nearly unlimited centralization of power, and Republicans were clearer than ever before about reversing that process, thanks largely to Trump&rsquo;s determination and force of character.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The only way to reduce the intensity of this dispute is to shrink the stakes involved. To clean up the nation&rsquo;s political rhetoric, we must reduce the power of our government &mdash; dramatically and uncompromisingly. Until then, our deteriorating political rhetoric will serve as an accurate indication of how thoroughly our government is destroying our wealth and our very viability as a nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump made that the central issue of his campaign. Success for him as president will both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taxpayer-funded-voice-of-america-runs-story-claiming-disinfo-will-spark-election-violence\/\" title=\"Taxpayer-Funded &quot;Voice of America&quot; Runs Story Claiming Disinfo Will Spark Election Violence\">ease political tensions<\/a> and rescue the nation from politically imposed self-destruction.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><i><b>The views expressed in this opinion article are those of their author and are not necessarily either d or endorsed by the owners of this website. 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While every election carries weight, this one appears to have a greater potential for transformation than usual. The divide between the two major political parties resembles a clash of civilizations rather than a simple debate over policy issues. The campaign revealed that two distinct groups within the country have fundamentally opposing visions for government. The left demands complete control over national institutions, while the right believes that federal power has become excessive and needs to be curtailed to prevent dysfunction and collapse. The Harris-Walz campaign and mainstream media launched fierce attacks on Trump and Vance, portraying Trump as a would-be dictator and suggesting that his &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; agenda is akin to Nazism. President Biden referred to Trump supporters derogatorily as &#8220;garbage,&#8221; reflecting his party&#8217;s longstanding rhetoric against Republicans, who are often labeled by Democrats as bitter clingers or racists\u2014terms like deplorable, irredeemable, extremists, insurrectionists, domestic terrorists, fascists, Nazis\u2014all aimed at those who support Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also used harsh language against Harris and Biden&#8217;s team by labeling them Marxists or communists among other things; however, he does not limit his criticism to Democrats but also targets Republicans who oppose him. His criticisms are generally directed at those in positions of power across various sectors including government and media.<\/p>\n<p>The presidential campaign rhetoric highlighted Trump&#8217;s strong disapproval of current U.S. leaders while Democratic politicians expressed deep distrust towards many American citizens\u2014particularly those who voted this year\u2014showing how their criticisms reflect increasingly divergent views: populism from Republicans versus elitism from Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Many attribute the degradation of political discourse to social media; however, it is inaccurate to claim that Trump initiated this decline since President Obama exhibited similar behavior before him during his tenure alongside Hillary Clinton\u2019s disparaging remarks throughout her 2016 campaign against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>While technology has played a role in changing political communication styles along with societal shifts in America contributing further hostility within its political culture stems largely from an overwhelming concentration of power in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>If this election was indeed pivotal historically speaking it revolved around determining control over an expansive federal government characterized by its size expense partisanship recklessness lack accountability which has seen national debt surge 38% since 2019 reaching levels equivalent now at 122% GDP per citizen liabilities totaling $651951 compared with total household business assets just $642061 per person indicating unsustainable claims on Americans\u2019 hard-earned resources prompting outrage among taxpayers subjected these burdens while beneficiaries fiercely defend such systems benefiting them directly<\/p>\n<p>With so much riding on elections Congress White House allocated more funds than current private asset stores explaining resentment towards anyone obstructing desires like Trump&#8217;s perceived threat posed enlightened individuals convinced they possess superior judgment regarding wealth distribution compared unexceptional workers capitalists responsible creating wealth<\/p>\n<p>Government experts assert they know best how invest public resources impartially without favoritism according leftist ideology thus making upcoming vote potentially consequential deciding whether invasive inefficient governance expands further attempts made curtail reliance businesses nonprofits fulfilling governmental objectives <\/p>\n<p>Democrats openly pushed for nearly unlimited centralization power whereas Republicans articulated clearer intentions reversing course thanks largely determination character exhibited by Donald trump himself <\/p>\n<p>To alleviate intensity disputes surrounding these matters reducing stakes involved necessary cleaning up nation\u2019s political dialogue requires significantly diminishing governmental authority until then deteriorating rhetoric will accurately reflect extent which our governing bodies undermine collective prosperity viability nation itself central issue trump campaigned upon achieving success presidency could ease tensions restore balance preventing self-destructive tendencies imposed 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