More and More, U.S. Politics Are Being Fueled By Hate

Americans Must Live With a Demagogue in the White House
Rosemary Ganley
The Peterborough Examiner
July 31, 2019

"One despairs at the state of American public education that has produced the middle-aged men who shout slogans at rallies wearing MAGA hats, and the women who gleefully assert their undying support" says Ganley. TOM BRENNER/NEW YORK TIMES

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Does America have more lovers than haters? That's the crucial question for the citizens of the republic to our south, now and into the future.

Spewing venom, their president outdid himself last week. Like a kind of Frankenstein unloosed, he dominated the news cycle, other crucial matters left abandoned. We watched, shocked. Me, too. I watched three straight nights of CNN. Evil before our eyes becomes wickedly irresistible.

The scorn he heaped on four congresswomen, the insulting language used, the disregard for truth, and the lack of a smidgen of respect for American institutions, all gave us a fresh and frightening picture of a demagogue at the helm.

Then I read what the wise Indian writer Arundathi Roy said: "The danger of that kind of obsession with a single person is that you don't see the system that has produced him."
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