Hi everyone,
Hillary Clinton went on Morning Joe and tried to say that the political right and left must "stop demonizing each other." Then she blamed the right. It's an all too familiar tactic among the left in the country to claim to want civility while ratcheting up the divisive rhetoric.
And all this on the same day another leftist terror attack left victims dead. This time in Texas at a Dallas immigration facility.
"We have—and I include myself—we have got to stop demonizing each other."
Then she blamed conservatives for being the real problem.
"Y'know, I think most of that right now in our country's history is coming, you know, from the right, coming from people who want to dominate. They want their point of view there, right?"
Then she lied.
"Y'know, writing out slavery from history that doesn't make it go away," she said.
Literally no one is writing out slavery from history. Instead, Trump and others are saying that slavery should not be the primary focus of the study of American history. It was just a few years ago that The New York Times tried to restate the founding date of America as that upon which the first enslaved person was brought to our colonial shores.
"Y'know, we have got to stop with the finger pointing and the scapegoating," Clinton went on. "We can have legitimate disagreements, right?"
Then she centered that conversation on her and her former boss Obama's pet policy, not noting at all that the concept of single-payer, socialized health care is not a concept itself that all Americans agree on—instead she jumped to the end of the very debate she was calling for.
"I mean, how do you provide quality, affordable health care to everybody?" She said. "Let's figure that out."
Then she jumped again to the end of a debate without looking at its intricacies, asking how America should deal with masses of unemployed people who are displaced by AI. She didn't ask about the AI race, or the tech itself, what it means for the nation, instead her concern was with providing government benefits to those who lose work because of it.
"How do you deal with what's going to be job loss from Ai? Let's get working on that. You know, that's what we should be doing, but we should do it in the truth based reality right that we have to live in. You know, facts and evidence have to matter again, and then we can start having good debates."
Clinton's definition of a "good debate" is where the outcome has been pre-determined and the only thing in question is the best way to attain the goal she wants.