On Thursday, August 3, 2017, the Townhall published an
article titled Left-Wing Silencers Are Addicted to Unhinged Outrage, Which OnlyHelps Trump
Guy Benson, the author of the
article and the book End of Discussion,
examines how a large part of Trump’s election is thanks to extreme liberals. Throughout
the article he makes many references to his book as the source of evidence to
his argument and mainly backs up his reasoning with personal presumptions and
over generalizations based on singular cases.
Benson claims one of the largest factors
of Trump’s presidency is that conservatives were sick of getting bullied by
leftist’s political correctness allegations. Liberals were ending the
discussion before they can even take place by putting conservatives in the
wrong and taking their voice away. People voted for Trump for his refreshing
demeanor on the media, saying whatever he wanted and getting away with it. People
were tired of tiptoeing around sensitive topics and like the guy for his
straight forward and blunt attitude.
I think Benson is right in a sense
that political correctness has gone out of control. Although it is important to
respect everyone it is equally important to have a discussion of why such
derogatory terms are still being use and address the issue rather than crucify people
for their slip ups and making it taboo to go near sensitive subjects. Censoring
certain topics does the opposite effect of alleviating the situation as
unspoken words are buried and bottled up instead of putting them in the open
where we can evaluate and address the issue together.
However, Benson seems to be playing
the blame game of pushing the responsibility of voting in Trump’s horrid
administration on to liberals. It’s childish and unreasonable for Benson to
blame liberals for his own political party’s actions as it is counterintuitive
and only creates a bigger rift in the bipartisan divide. There is no doubt that
President Trump was the nominated candidate of the Republicans by their own
choosing and although it’s easy to try to push the blame on to other people and
point fingers for their own actions, they need to take responsibility and
realize the damage he’s done and the promises he’s broken. Instead of looking
for someone to accuse we should be taking the first steps of closing the divide
and coming up with ways of fixing the problem together. Perhaps Trump will make
America great again and unite the nation as it’ll take both parties working
together to correct the many mistakes he’s made.
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