Posted on 07/03/2018 9:56:58 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Since President Trump’s election, journalists, political scientists and others from across the United States and around the world have visited our little southern Ohio town, population 6,600, to study the natives. Naturally, patronizing local eateries at breakfast or lunchtime is usually part of their itinerary.
Some have told me later that, during their interviews, they went out of their way to identify themselves as liberals who have little use for our president. To their credit, they wanted to be honest about who they were and what they were doing. They were sometimes treated with a degree of skepticism, but without fail, they say that people were polite and willing to talk to them — not to mention serve them breakfast or lunch.
We contrast this, of course, with the recent episodes involving Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, both of whom were essentially evicted from restaurants — Nielsen heckled away by customers, Sanders asked by the restaurant owner to leave — for the crime of Trump association, similar to a misdemeanor but quickly approaching felony status.
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Tolerance is for the people who spout error, not for the error itself.
Always appropriately and politely speak against lies, untruths and misunderstanding and demand the same from others.
We lived under the Obamanation for eight years, after all.
Would it be OK to tell them that “everybody is entitled to their own opinion, and you are entitled to be an idiot”.
NOW WHAT’L YA HAVE ON THE MENU?
That sounds more like it!
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