Although I wish this weren't the case (your characterization of which "side" in general is more likely to flare up and stump out of the room as you say tracks with what I have observed--and the commenters here sort of reinforce that. I literally could not be more disgusted with the developments on the right and the cult of Donald Trump, & yet in the liberal circles I keep I'm pretty disheartened by the open contempt and demonization of the people who, at the end of the day, are really just people who are worried about their future and families and are themselves victims of media making money off stoking their fears. Hardly a model of the "inclusive" liberal values so often trumpeted. That puts the left in the same hypocritical camp as the right. And both sides-- religious or otherwise--would do well to take note of the fact that Jesus Christ himself saved his harshest rebukes and reprimands for the hypocrites.

Although I wish this weren't the case (your characterization of which "side" in general is more likely to flare up and stump out of the room as you say tracks with what I have observed--and the commenters here sort of reinforce that. I literally could not be more disgusted with the developments on the right and the cult of Donald Trump, & yet in the liberal circles I keep I'm pretty disheartened by the open contempt and demonization of the people who, at the end of the day, are really just people who are worried about their future and families and are themselves victims of media making money off stoking their fears. Hardly a model of the "inclusive" liberal values so often trumpeted. That puts the left in the same hypocritical camp as the right. And both sides-- religious or otherwise--would do well to take note of the fact that Jesus Christ himself saved his harshest rebukes and reprimands for the hypocrites.

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